That sounds perfectly lovely and exciting – no irony intended! If it’s going to be winter, it may as well do it right. Around here it’s been doing it all wrong. Hardly any snow, and for nearly a week now temperatures have been well above seasonal. It’s all been very boring.
Among the many nice things about winter is the ability to pick up fancy gourmet foods from far away in the Big City and put them in the trunk where they keep nicely chilled on the way home. Lately it’s been barely cool enough to do that.
Yabbut youse guys also gots black widow spiders, scorpions, and Trumpists. Plus, freshly fallen snow is a beautiful thing, and produces Christmassy Christmases and, indirectly, hockey.
After a 7 year stint in Alaska, the only snow I want to see is in a cone and the only ice I want to experience in a glass, preferably cooling some alcohol. The vermin are a pain, I’ll admit.
Except our storm winds tend to be a bit higher than that, we’ve ahd them up to the 120-130 kph range. Actually, the gusts sort of start shading into microburst/EF0-1 tornado strength.
Hunker down and stay safe. I recommend chocolate to keep up morale.
This is the first winter I can recall with no snow on the ground in the middle of January. There have been small snow falls here but they all melted. We do have a prediction of 22-24 cm (about 9") here in the next day and a half.
There was more hot chocolate in the Tim’s box than they could drink, so they took most of it over to a neighbour with small kids who had also been without power for several hours.
