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By the Lincoln Journal Star

Monday, Oct 20, 2008 - 08:01:23 pm CDT

A winter storm with the potential for heavy snowfall and winds strong enough to damage trees and power lines is taking aim at western and central Nebraska.

Lincoln could feel the remnants.

Forecasters said warm and unstable air will move into the state Tuesday, bringing the possibility of thunderstorms, including some heavy rain and hail. By Wednesday, a cold front is expected to plunge south across the region, with northwest winds of 30 to 40 mph likely and gusts approaching 50 to 60 mph.

Rain is expected to change to snow by Wednesday morning and continue into Thursday with “significant storm total snow accumulations expected.”

The area most likely to feel the brunt of it is north and west of a line from St. Paul to Holdrege, forecasters said.

The strong winds and wet, heavy snow could result in damage to power lines and trees, they said.

Rain, possibly heavy, could begin in Lincoln by Tuesday night  and continue into Wednesday. Snow showers are possible Thursday, the weather service said.


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Tony wrote on October 20, 2008 8:10 pm:
" Oh No!! "
Snowplow Driver wrote on October 20, 2008 8:33 pm:
" Yeah! "
Ice Cream Man wrote on October 20, 2008 8:55 pm:
" NO!!! "
TG wrote on October 20, 2008 9:04 pm:
" Must be time to head south for the winter. "
Mrs. Johnson wrote on October 20, 2008 9:10 pm:
" Burrr! It's too early. "
JT wrote on October 20, 2008 9:19 pm:
" McCain already has robocalls out blaming Obama for the snow. "
GiveItBringIt wrote on October 20, 2008 10:02 pm:
" We are overdue for an ice age. Bring it on! "
UGh wrote on October 20, 2008 10:13 pm:
" I like the snow when I can stay home :) Otherwise Bahhhh Humbug "
ohpuhleeze wrote on October 20, 2008 10:16 pm:
" Obama likely wants to spread the snow around too!

I am not ready for snow yet! "
Off to vacation wrote on October 20, 2008 10:29 pm:
" Lucky me...heading to Mexico on Sunday....hehehehehe "
mr plow wrote on October 20, 2008 10:37 pm:
" think snow "
SmokinJoe wrote on October 20, 2008 10:51 pm:
" Nope, my call was from Obama, saying he'd study why McCain hasn't done anything about snow in his 20+ years of service... :-) "
laura garcia wrote on October 20, 2008 11:17 pm:
" not snow yet!!!! oh nonononono!burrrr! "
Texan In Nebraska wrote on October 21, 2008 1:24 am:
" Time to get my behind back to the South!! "
lincolnite wrote on October 21, 2008 5:12 am:
" Time to start complaining that the city didn't plow my street. "
Remember wrote on October 21, 2008 7:35 am:
" Remember October 25th 1997??? "
rb wrote on October 21, 2008 7:57 am:
" Guess I better get the snowblower out and ready to go. "
Ray-J wrote on October 21, 2008 8:33 am:
" O.M.G, it must be that global warming thing liberals have said would be happening. What a hoot! "
Murf wrote on October 21, 2008 8:55 am:
" Dang, this means I hafta get my garage cleaned out enough to park my truck. "
global warming at it again wrote on October 21, 2008 8:59 am:
" Dang Al Gore was right, global warming is here to stay...... "
Remember too wrote on October 21, 2008 9:09 am:
" Yes, I remember that awful day on October 25, 1997 "
Nina wrote on October 21, 2008 9:39 am:
" Doesn't it make you feel at home? Two nights ago I saw people dining by candlelight on the veranda at the Lied Lodge in Nebraska City, and marveled that in the latter half of October, this could still be done comfortably in Nebraska. Now we have the threat of blizzards 'so early in the season.' Making our way through all this is what has made our Nebraska ancestors hardy, and is why even today, Nebraskans tend to live longer than most in our nation. Here's to our ability to grin and bear it! "
Half-Baked Alaskan wrote on October 21, 2008 10:10 am:
" It's the Palin effect. "
Snow Liker wrote on October 21, 2008 10:48 am:
" I will take the snow over the rain any day! "
NO wrote on October 21, 2008 11:28 am:
" errrr!! I can't believe it. As usual, I'm sure Lincoln will be totally unprepared and have about zero plows ready to go. Can't wait! "
JB wrote on October 21, 2008 11:50 am:
" What day in October was that last BIG snowstorm? I thought Lincoln wouldn't have any tree left after that one. "
Golfer wrote on October 21, 2008 12:27 pm:
" There goes golf...time to take out the bowling balls. "
Typical yokels wrote on October 21, 2008 3:27 pm:
" Like clockwork, everytime there is an article about local Lincoln cold weather, the ignorant feel they have one-upped the world's scientists and disproved global warming. Snow in Lincoln counteracts all of the studies done by the majority of the world's scientists (especially the ones not funded by oil and energy companies). "
global warming is a joke wrote on October 22, 2008 9:45 am:
" Every time the temperature hit 100 anywhere in the globe the last few years, "Global warming" was the cause. When the temperature gets below freezing not a word is said. The polar ice caps have grown back to their previous levels from a decade ago, global temperatures have cooled so much in the last few years that it totally erased a trend from the last 100 years, and temperatures this century are cooler than those during the middle ages when those nasty factories were busy churning out all that CO2.

As temperatures rise, gas releases from water far easier, this is basic chemistry. CO2 rise follows a rise in temperature, which surprise surprise, follows the sunspot activity. You leftists wont need to worry about global warming when your agenda is put into full swing under Obama. No need to hide the true agenda under this anymore. "
Let it Snow wrote on October 22, 2008 10:34 am:
" White gold! "
St Nick wrote on October 22, 2008 2:11 pm:
" I'm in Broken Bow... its 2pm... just started snowing. But it was snowing on the interstate this morning at 10am just west of Grand Island. Snowed all the way from Kearney to Broken Bow. Nobody knows where this fool storm will hit or how hard.

Only wished I had cleaned out my gutters last weekend. "
British Person wrote on October 22, 2008 2:49 pm:
" Time for 6 months hibernation!
Next Spring the Election will be a memory & the credit crunch fixed ...... "

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