Hey, we're freezing over here!

Oshkosh? That is where I saw pink lightening as a child... yessiree, we did, it was pink! Very large lightening. Must've been summer, on the way to Lake Tomahawk. Mmm, perhaps it's been renamed by now..

The truly sucky thing here as the winter progresses, is not just record cold, but that the weather swings wildly. Today the temp reached 35, so there was all kinds of ice melt (yesterday, too), and overnight, the roads will turn into sheets of ice again. If this lasts for several days, all will be well--but the way this winter has gone, i strongly suspect it will drop into the deep freeze again soon.

Tuesday: Hi: 1°c Lo: -5°c
Freezing rain ending by morning. then 5cm wet snow. Snow ending in the evening.


Rush hour is going to be very entertaining.

Today was one of those days my mom would call Pea-numonies, just enough warmer than the last few days to fool you into thinking that it's actually warm. You head down the street with nothing on your head with your coat open to the waist and your gloves in your pocket, then you look up at the bank's therMOMometer and it says ....... 34F .....

Suddenly you are freezing cold because, of course, you are freezing cold, but a few days in bed drinking orange juice and gingerale will cure you.

Sounds very much like our day today. Only our temp scale is less depressing.

How is 1 degree more depressing than 34 degrees when they mean the same thing?

What I hate is wind chill factors........ Please don't tell me the RealFeel (actual name used by NYC TV station) just tell me the temperature and I will work out the rest.

Joe

RealFeel? Eeek.

Anyway, our high was 29 F, so I guess -1 or -2. Fahrenheit's just a lot more cheery and arbitrary. Makes me happy.

When I was a kid in NYC and Evanston, Ill, for a while, we didn't have wind chill, that we knew of anyway. Just the routine +3 or -7 or + 16.... whatever. Plus, some slush, from time to time.

You're from Evanston? Do you know a pizza place called Gulliver's? (Dunno how old it is. Technically it's in Chicago, but the other side of the street is Evanston.)

When i was a child, we had to watch tv by candlelight, so we weren't allowed to stay up for the weather . . .

You think that's bad? When we ran out of peat we had to run the radio on manure...

That would be Howard Street, no? We got our Christmas trees on Howard Street and also, I think I saw Peter Pan with neighborhood kids at an old theater there...

I'm so old, they didn't have pizza then. I didn't see pizza in my life until about 1959... in LA...

I've made up for this lack, of course. I didn't see salad until then either..

There's no salad in Chicago to this day.

Ah, well. No one ever knows Gulliver's when I ask, even though the place is always packed. Their pan is highly recommended, as is the decor, if you're ever out there...

Listen, if I get back to Evanston, you'll all hear about it. Still have childhood connections there...

Actually this is to Soz... two of my friends who lived across the street, the oldest of four sisters, and the third of four, married nuclear physicists, who studied in Madison a long time ago now..
I am still in touch with that family..

Oh really? Is the physicist still at Madison? Or where?

Well, the Winter Storm Warning here expires in about an hour, and it looks as though this snow episode is almost over. All in all, we got about a foot and half, so far ... nothing remarkable. We might get a little more off the backside of the storm as it lifts North and East, so I'm on-call through noon tomorrow. Prolly won't have to go back out though, unless it gets windier than expected and drifting starts. The temp is about 15 F, headed for an overnight low of about 5. The next couple days are supposed to be clear, with single-digit highs and sub-zero lows. Still a bit premature to start thinking about the patio furniture.

Oh, here's "THE BIG TRUCK" at work.

Cool.

Foot and a half!

We got maybe 4 inches, but was coming down real nicely for a while. White-out.

Soz, these are old guys now. Both retired I think. One was at Oak Ridge, the other, for a while when I was paying attention, at Livermore.

Cool truck!