It's 44 degrees this morning, and windy. There were gusts of 105 mph on the hillside above us, overnight. While it's dying down now (to 15 to 30 mph), the wind had the effect of glazing the ice-covered streets and parking lots, as well as causing a great deal of snow-melting.
The school districts, colleges, and local bus service have all been canceled again today, and the local electric co-op is working overtime to fix power outages due to fallen power-lines.
It's amazing: we handled two weeks of subzero weather just fine, albeit with grumbling aplenty. Now that it's 20 degrees warmer than normal, all h*** breaks loose. Go figure.
Our normal high for mid-January is 22, and lows around 9 or 10 degrees. One week ago, it was 20 below zero, a 40-degree departure from normal. Now we've shifted 60 degrees in the other direction.
Accu-Hunch, ever faithful, is calling for near-normal temps with snow, or a rain-snow mix, by the weekend. So if our temperatures are going down, that tends to mean the Lower 48 warms back up.
In the meantime, you're freezing and we're melting. Let's hope things go back to normal soon.
John 12:24 "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit."
2 comments:
Forty-four?!?!
Jeez, Louise! It never got above 12 degrees here (north-central PA) today and will be in the minus numbers tonight, single digits tomorrow and minus again tomorrow night.
yep, one of the famous...or maybe I should say infamous...Chinook winds that blow thru and green up the grass in January Feb just to leave out when the 60 below comes back in...
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