Left Manhattan early today because… if it’s snowing that hard there, then it’s definitely not gonna be pretty when I get back to CT. Looks like I timed it perfectly too - if I’d stuck it out the rest of the day, the drive home would have been treacherous.
'nother Bay Area Doper checking in. We’ve been having record-breaking heat wave here for the last week or two. Today it’s 80+ in San Jose, and the restaurants with outside seating are making money hand over fist. Meanwhile, my winter vegetable garden is starting to bolt, under the impression that it’s early summer. Guinness stout sounds gaggingly heavy and winter-y for tomorrow; I think we’ll be drinking well-chilled Carlsberg or German lager instead.
Yes, Maureen, I had an intentional flu day a couple of days ago, too. Sweet, isn’t it?
Not much NEW snow here in Hokkaido, Japan. (Maybe an inch or a light dusting most nights) but my car is still in a “car port” of snow, with walls 8 feet high. They were over 10 feet so I suppose things are improving. In the bike sheds, I just saw the top rim of the wind shield of my husband’s motorbike poking through the snow.
The roads are clean(ish) and the snow is melting, so we are at that delightful stage of the year when the drains are still under ice, so we have lakes of melt water on top of the ice right where we have to walk.
Yesterday was nice weather, sunny and about 4C - woo! So I went out with my trusty pick axe and smashed a channel back from the drain to our front entrance (30 yards maybe.) It took me over two hours because I am not very strong, and now I have a very bruised hand from the pickaxe handle. But that moment when I broke through the last ice wall and all that water went gushing down the channel and into the drain! Oh, it was most satisfying. Right up there with popping a good zit.
Northerm Mass. The first few of what’s supposed to be up to 12" have fallen in the past few hours.
Gah.
2 words. YOU. SUCK.
We still have snow here, and are having some more tonight, into tomorrow.
Western part of Maryland checking in. I subscribe to an email service called SchoolsOut.com. It sends me emails when there are delays or cancellations for our county. Good thing I have it, because it never would have occurred to me to listne to the radio this morning to see about snow. I was sitting in front of my 'puter at 5:20AM, checking my email, and here’s and email from them! Two hour delay, it says. WTF? Why? I look out the window. Oh, shit. Snow. Well, the only one in the house in public school is my 4-year-old, and she has morning pre-k, so if there’s a delay, she doesn’t have school at all. Two hours later, another email saying school’s cancelled. Weather.com was predicting less than an inch until well after we had two inches on the ground! Thankfully, we got less than three inches, and it’s melting now.
It snowed in Minnesota this afternoon, so guess what Ohio…
more on the way!
isn’t March supposed to be one of the snowiest months? seems like around here anyway.
In the 70’s here. I opened all the windows on my house.
The vernal equinox isn’t until Friday. Suck it up.
-Wolfian, bitter CNY (Central New York) dweller where it won’t stop until early June. Okay, mid-April.
It’s not snowing much in Chicago now, but my sister said they’ve gotten around 17" in central Iowa today.
Ehn, nothing new. Been there, done that, bought the parka.
Same story today, FYI. Oh, the Sun… Oh, how it burns my eyes…
Sorry for the wallowing, I don’t get the chance that often.
Doebi - C’est la Vie, such is the unpredictability of our weather, hope you had a good time nonetheless. Y’all come back now, y’hear?
In March several years ago, yes, I have! And I live in lower Alabama. I mean, just above the Florida panhandle–it takes me about 15-20 minutes to cross the state line. I loved every minute of it–we don’t get to see snow all that often, as you might have guessed! Naturally, it didn’t last long, but it made everything look so beautiful while it was here!
Minnesota is prone to receiving significant snowstorms the weekend of the State High School Basketball Tournement and the weekend of the State High School Hockey Tournement, both of which take place in March, I think. Certainly they used to when I lived there. part of this is people remembering the most significant storms on such day. But part of it is the fact that in March it is warmer than in January or February, so the air holds more moisture, so when it snows, there is more snow. I assume the general phenomena occurs elsewhere for the same reasons, but I haven’t spent enough time elsewhere in snow country to be sure.
One of the worst snowstorms in my personal recollection was on April 9, 1973. Southern Iowa got at least a foot in less than 24 hours and roads were messed up for a couple of days.
There was another bad one in April 8 years later. That time it was the weekend of the Regional Music Competition which was held in my home town that year. We had people from neighboring towns camping out in the gym because they wouldn’t risk taking the buses home until the next day.