It appears to have all gone south, to the Lower 48. Thanks to permutations in the jet stream, it warms up here when it gets really cold in the Midwest.
I'm sure you've all seen the winter storm warnings for the mid-section and east coast. Joated over at Compass Points is blaming my comments about how his "weather could be worse" for the approaching ice-and-snow blizzard that's forecast for his area. Sorry, guy; I didn't mean for them to take me seriously.
We spent most of yesterday at about 3 degrees, temperature-wise, and it's 19 this morning. Since that's near the forecast high of 21, it alone would have told me the nation's mid-section* is in for a wintry blast.
The frost on the trees here is at least an inch thick, and I'm going to take pictures today - if I haven't waited too long. I snapped a pic with my cell phone yesterday, but the resolution is too low for any picture larger than 2" square. I don't know if the frost build-up will have survived the rising temps, but sunrise will reveal all.
I'm sure you've all seen the winter storm warnings for the mid-section and east coast. Joated over at Compass Points is blaming my comments about how his "weather could be worse" for the approaching ice-and-snow blizzard that's forecast for his area. Sorry, guy; I didn't mean for them to take me seriously.
We spent most of yesterday at about 3 degrees, temperature-wise, and it's 19 this morning. Since that's near the forecast high of 21, it alone would have told me the nation's mid-section* is in for a wintry blast.
The frost on the trees here is at least an inch thick, and I'm going to take pictures today - if I haven't waited too long. I snapped a pic with my cell phone yesterday, but the resolution is too low for any picture larger than 2" square. I don't know if the frost build-up will have survived the rising temps, but sunrise will reveal all.
UPDATE: here's the frost...
*I sound like a meteorologist, don't I? Accu-Hunch has fooled us all. The largish snowpile in the photo is where we put the snow from the two-acre parking lot. It has been compacted & packed down by a dozer, as well as shrinking from the single-digit temps which remove moisture from the snow. A week ago, it was twice as high as it is now.
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