Dorchester Times: ALERT: Up To Another 23" Of Snow This Coming Weekend, Forecasters Say

Wednesday, January 16, 2019

ALERT: Up To Another 23" Of Snow This Coming Weekend, Forecasters Say

(UPDATE: On Tuesday afternoon, famous online weather forecaster Frankie MacDonald issued his warning for our area, calling for 6" to 12" on Friday. He says: "Order your pizzas and Chinese food and buy cases of Pepsi and Coke. Do your grocery shopping. Don't wait until the last minute. Do it right now!" See his video warning here.)

Lots more snow? On top of what we just received?

It looks like a real possibility.

News Channel Nebraska is reporting that a potential winter storm could target an area from the Great Plains to the northeast part of the United States this coming weekend (Jan. 19-20), including Dorchester.

Early forecasts are calling for 12-16″ of snow in eastern Nebraska and western Iowa. As much as 16-23″ could fall in extreme southeast Nebraska.

Dorchester appears to be in the bullseye of one early model.

For now, the National Weather Service is calling for a chance of snow Friday afternoon through Saturday night, with no details on early estimates.

Temperatures this week will range from the lower to upper 30s with partly to mostly sunny skies.

If the storm does hit, it would come a week after Dorchester and surrounding areas received around 6-8" of the white stuff.

Developing...

4 comments:

AnonymousJanuary 13, 2019 at 9:54 PM
If we don't pave streets, at least they'll be Snow packed.
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UnknownJanuary 16, 2019 at 6:52 AM
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Omaha/Valley NE
418 AM CST Wed Jan 16 2019

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This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of southwest
Iowa...west central Iowa...east central Nebraska...northeast
Nebraska and southeast Nebraska.

.DAY ONE...Today and Tonight

Light snow showers possible late this afternoon and overnight.
only a dusting to and inch possible.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday

A significant winter storm Friday afternoon into Saturday
morning could bring 2 to 6 inches of snow to the region, along
with blowing and drifting snow.

A very cold Arctic air mass will settle over the region this
weekend, bringing with it winds chills as low as 10 to 20 below
zero.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not expected at this time.

$$

Albright
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AnonymousJanuary 16, 2019 at 2:35 PM
Steve King is calling for a white out
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AnonymousJanuary 16, 2019 at 4:12 PM
He B tellin'it like he sees it!!
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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."