Dorchester Times: Frankie The Weather Guy Calls It: Major Snow Event Headed Our Way

Friday, January 29, 2016

Frankie The Weather Guy Calls It: Major Snow Event Headed Our Way

Unless you live in a cave, you have by now heard about or seen Frankie the Weather Guy, the YouTube sensation from Canada.

He is calling for a massive snow storm to hit eastern Nebraska -- especially Omaha.

"Be warned, Nebraska!" Frankie exclaims. "Be prepared! ... Don't even try to go outside."

See Frankie's video forecast here.

Frankie may have called this one correctly -- very early. And Saline County appears to be in the cross hairs of the coming blizzard.

Major media outlets, including the Weather Channel, are saying a major snow event is headed our way by Monday evening and lasting through Tuesday. The Lincoln Journal Star reported this afternoon that "it remains too early to accurately pinpoint where the storm will track, although forecasters are confident that someone, somewhere will see heavy snow and near-blizzard conditions next week."

The latest "best guess" is a heavy snow band from central Kansas stretching into extreme Southeast Nebraska, including Thayer, Jefferson, Saline, Gage and counties south of Nebraska Highway 2 to the east of Lincoln.

The National Weather Service is watching a system that is now near Hawaii and another near Alaska. That system is expected to hit the west coast by Sunday and then move east. The models show now is a broad area of accumulating snowfall over eastern Nebraska and western Iowa.

A NWS spokeswoman says, “We are expecting quite a bit of wind. It looks like anywhere from 30 to 40 miles per hour with gusts higher than that. If we get three inches of snow and get 40 mile per hour winds that is going to create white-out conditions.”

Nebraskans are urged to prepare for the storm and adjust travel plans as needed.

Stay tuned to the Dorchester Times and our AccuWeather updates on this weather system.

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7 comments:

AnonymousJanuary 29, 2016 at 10:41 PM
Frankie, official meteorologist of the Dorchester Times. Hahaha! You guys rock!!!
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cynical richardJanuary 29, 2016 at 11:52 PM
......................... here we go again ..................... panties in a wad over what will amount to a dusting ....................................... you bloggers are just stirring the pot ................... just like the boys on tv in their suits ..................... all because you take yer weather advice from a guy whose parents are brother and sister.................................. my cattle say less than 3" ................................ bring it on .....................................................
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BethJanuary 30, 2016 at 9:17 AM
I love frankie!
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BethJanuary 30, 2016 at 9:18 AM
I love frankie!
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AnonymousFebruary 1, 2016 at 8:50 AM
You don't need to be mean about Frankie, cynical Richard, he is autistic. He obviously enjoys doing weather reports and it sounds like a lot of people enjoy watching them.
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AnonymousFebruary 2, 2016 at 11:37 AM
Reports are that Cynical Richard is buried in his pasture under a 3 ft. snow drift.
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Dorchester: A Good Little Family Town

Dorchester, Nebraska (est. population 630) is located in northern Saline county. Close in proximity to Interstate 80, Dorchester is only 25 minutes from the state capital of Lincoln (est. population 250,000) and about 55 minutes from Omaha (metro population 725,000).

Dorchester's median resident age is 37 years. In 2005, Dorchester had a median family income of approximately $35,600. The median house value was about $63,000. About 95 percent of Dorchester residents commute to work via Interstate and highways.

The village has a quality public school, which received a $4.1 million expansion and modernization in 2008; it offers a small classrooms and individualized attention. Total enrollment of grades K-12 is around 230-250 students.

Ancestries of the Dorchester area are primarily German (42.4%), Czech (24.9%), Irish (12.5%), English (5.4%), and Dutch (4.9%).

Dorchester Historical Facts

* On July 4, 1871, the railroad reached Dorchester.
* Incorporated in 1881, Dorchester's population grew from 200 to 500 by 1882.
* In 1882, Dorchester had 90 buildings, 35 of which were businesses or public facilities. Brick buildings lined both sides of Washington Avenue for two blocks.
* Dorchester's longest-running newspaper was The Dorchester Star, which was published until the late 1940s.
* By 1889, Dorchester's population is said to have reached 800, while the town housed an opera house, a two-story brick schoolhouse with a bell tower, and four churches.
* By the 1910s, Dorchester had electricity, a water tower and a fire department.
* Dorchester's main arteries, Highways 6 and 33, were graveled in the 1940s.
* Dorchester's first irrigation well was drilled on Chris Weber's farm and rural electrification was finished following WWII.

A Village with History

Dorchester is one of the "alphabet towns" on the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad line built west from Lincoln. The town site was selected for its pleasant location in the northern part of Saline County, about eight miles west of Crete. This situation is an attractive one, being on the level prairie land, midway between the West Blue River and Turkey Creek. The first named stream is three miles north, and the latter about the same distance south from the town. Dorchester was platted in 1870 and incorporated in 1881. The name "Dorchester" came from either for a suburb of Boston by that name or a town in England. No one is sure. Two of the very first settlers were James Seely and Edward McIntyre, who both made Dorchester their permanent home.

Dorchester: In The Beginning

Here is a look at Dorchester around 1890, less than a decade after its official incorporation, as documented by Andreas' History of the State of Nebraska:
* POPULATION: "About 300, and is made up of a substantial and progressive class of citizens, who are moral and industrious. ... The town grew but very little until the year 1879, for the reason that Pleasant Hill, on Turkey Creek, a short distance south, was the county seat and naturally drew a trade for quite a large scope of country."
* BUSINESS: "The business and professional interests of the town are represented by three general merchandise stores, two drug, one grocery, one furniture, two hardware, and two millinery stores, one bank, two restaurants, two hotels, three livery stables, a post office, one newspaper office, two elevators, two lumber yards, two coal yards, two blacksmith shops, two lawyers and four physicians."
* SCHOOL: "The schoolhouse is a good one. The schoolhouse was built in 1872, since which time the public schools have been continually kept up. The present schoolhouse is 24' x 40' in size, two stories high. The school is graded and consists of three departments. The house is found too small, and arrangements will soon be made to increase its size."
* CHURCHES: "There are three substantial churches."
* HOMES: "The residence portion of the village is made up of neat houses of different styles of architecture, but none of them very large."
* NEWSPAPER: "The Dorchester Star, which was established August 21, 1881, by H. C. Bittenbender, who edited it until January 19, 1882, when he sold it to Ryerson & Bullock, the present proprietors. The Star is a bright weekly paper, five-column quarto, in size, and is Republican in politics."