A SNOW-LESS Winter in Bahstin...

Oy!

Able-bodied next-door neighbor helped shovel out our driveway. In gratitude, I put two boxes of unopened herbal tea and a thank-you note in his mailbox.

Thank you, Shane.

We got snow before Christmas, what we've gotten since is negligible. The frigid temps are our big problem.

The cold scale is at mother-fuckin'. As in, it is mother-fuckin' cold. These are precise scientific terms, kindly use them. Thank you.

Would you kindly give us some mother-degrees? So that it's here colder and at yours only ******* cold? Thank you in advance.

******* cold is about 0 - 15 above. Mother cold, hmm. I'll have to call her and ask if she's cold.

55 degrees at 8 pm in January is nearly summer-vacation warm ...

55?

55.4 just now here (13°C) - okay, would be a bit shadily in summer, I admit.

Though it really could be a summer night: we've got a heavy thunderstorm just now

My heart goes out to all you Mainlanders suffering from the frigid effects of global warming. Me, I put on a corduroy sport coat this morning before leaving the house because the temp. was down to not quite 60 degrees F. Back up in the mid-70s now and I'm sorry to be burdened with this extra weight which is making me perspire needlessly.

I woke up this Sunday morning at 1 am. I tried to go back to sleep for an hour or so, but the Sandman had left for the day. I got up.
I turned on my computer. Nothing happened. It has been dying and now it was apparently dead.
I turned to my clock/radio where the time showed 2:07. I haven't used the radio function in years. I could pick up only a few stations. 2 am on a Sunday morning is not prime time. There were more than a few weird folks on.
I found out that there is a secret submarine base 3400' below the Nevada desert, accessed by going underneath the California continental shelf and then into a tunnel. And that there is a U.S. aircraft carrier that can go 90mph. The only reason we don't know about it is that all of the sailors are sent below deck before it ramps up to that speed.
But I digress. Before I slumbered Saturday night the weather forecast was quite benign for the next couple of days.
I carried my computer to my shop at dawn on Sunday expecting to read it last rites. I must have scared it. It came back to life.
And the weather forecast had changed dramatically. Temps are forecast to fall from a high of 60 to a low of 10 with the possibility of 6-10" of snow beginning late tonight and lasting into Monday.
I guess most of the Mid-Atlantic up towards New England will be affected, as well as the mid-section of the country.

when I left for a Carnival revel last night they were projecting 1 or 2 cm of snow ... a dusting

when I got back, more than 8 cm was on the ground and it was coming down fiercely

I went wild - took a cab home from the subway instead of walking

the cabbie was a bit surprised by my Carnival mask but not much - it was a Saturday night in Toronto after all

24 in Austin this a.m., and windy.

brrrrr.....

We reached that temperature here once.



August 11th, 1976.

It was minus 15 wen i got up this morning. It dropped down to minus 18 within two hours. It has "warmed" back up to minus 15. As well, it's supposed to snow later. Saturday, it was minus 2 in the morning, and warmed up to one degree. This has been a bitch of a winter.

heh.
24 is -4.4 to you

quite nippy for central tx.

whoops, now it's up to 26... -3.3

Wally's in Illnois right now. Texted me that it's 4 degrees.

-15.5 to you lordy.

Set, I remember those negative F temps when I lived in Wisconsin. I raised my fist to heaven and did a Scarlett O'Hara..."As God is my witness.....As GOD is my witness, if I ever get out of here, I'll never complain about the cold again."

Growing up in NJ, living on the Atlantic, we had a bit of a buffer from the cold inland. I think I remember thinking 12 or 17 as really cold.