About 5″ by this morning, fat flakes at dawn and now sifting down powder. Now I can feel we have an actual winter. I hope it stays a while, though we are running out of people food.
We’re perfectly ok with cat food.
Now I'm happy…we're snowed.
by CJ | Jan 30, 2014 | Journal | 18 comments
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Whiskas Tuna Noodle Surprise!
I remember reading a book where the pilot was flying across the US in a small light plane. In case of emergency, he had a stash of granola bars and bottled water. Trouble being, it was entirely too easy for him to dip into the ’emergency rations’ for snacks mid-flight; his supplies dwindled rapidly and his bum was increasing because of much sitting and ready food. He evaluated the options, and swapped out the granola bars for a bag of — dog food. Might not be all that appetizing, but it guaranteed he would have something available to eat if he crashed in an inaccessible location.
This storm is supposed to come down to California. We need it.
SO do we! Our forests depend on it, to lessen fire hazard next summer; our waterways depend on it, and our electicity goes as the water goes: the big dams.
At least you have your priorities in order. Owners first, staff second.
As long as the white stuff stays over on your side….most of us west siders are perfectly happy with the liquid version. The witch hazels have been blooming for almost 2 weeks. Same with the yellow winter jasmine. Just bought some mason bee cocoons….will store them in the cool garage until just before the fruit trees start blooming.
Even SE Arizona would appreciate your precipitation in whatever form. We’ve had a very mild winter with daytime temperatures in the 60s F. The yearly snowcap on our mountains has already melted away but there was so little actual water that the waterfall normally visible from this end of town did not run…. I would so enjoy a day of snow, or rain!
Here in northern MD we’re looking forward to the temperature rising above freezing tomorrow and over the weekend. We’ve had snow on the ground for over a week, which I sure wished I could have sent to all you guys that needed it. Maybe I can finally get the salt washed off my poor car tomorrow!
I don’t think it’s ever going to snow again. We’ve been without any precipice for 41 days. Lows have been pretty normal in the 20s, but the highs have been in the 60s, the juniper and cypress ate in heavy pollen 2 months early and this summer could be truly frightening. But I’m really bummed about no winter.
xkcd on weather geeks
Love it! xkcd is always good, but this one is particularly appropriate. As a formally trained meteorologist, the evening news can be particularly trying for me–just ask my long-suffering wife. 😀
“Ha! Morons! There’s no way that there’s 6 lows strung together like that! It’s a trough, dammit!”
“Really, honey?”
Enjoy the snow!
Down here on the south OR coast the wild plum trees are in full bloom and I spent a rather uncomfortable chunk of the day yesterday repotting pond lillies.
Too much sun and nice weather means the plums are a couple weeks early and the pond is probably a month ahead of schedule. The lilies are starting all sorts of new growth and definitely need the fertilizer, and the fish are getting fat and stupid. I fully expect there will be several that need retrieved from the prefilter basket in pretty short order. I even removed a couple insanely early lily blooms! They don’t handle repotting well, so I figured cut them and let the plants work on new roots.
Now we’ll get a cold snap, probably, but at least we are not under water restrictions.
Not yet anyway.
If I could send snow to Arizona or California or wherever folks need it, I would. Alberta has had four times the snow it normally gets, and they’re already talking about floods again. Floods BEFORE the spring melt, even, what with the chinooks coming in over the mountains. I’ve noticed the river is running high for this time of year.
Mind, I wouldn’t mind a bit more chinook — getting rid of the sidewalk skating rinks would be a great way to spend that extra warmth!
Our forecast is freezing drizzle for tonight. Yuck!
Oh Ruadhan, I so hope not! We have friends in Calgary and Banff is on the top of my best-places-ever list and the damage last year was terrible. Fingers crossed you never have to deal with that again!
Got cloudy here today with a cold wind, but no rain, no snow just a nice fire I’m the fireplace. Wish all of you I’m the deep freeze could send us some here I’m the AZ mountains.
I was looking for an appropriate place to put this…..it has begun snowing in West Central Ohio about 20 minutes ago. They are predicting anywhere from 6 – 10 inches by tomorrow. This is on top of the snow already on the ground. I really wish there were a way to transport this stuff to the western slopes of the Sierra Nevadas.
We had snow showers Tuesday morning, lostly light, some heavy, not sticking. More maybe Saturday.