We’d just had a nice thaw, and all the snow was pretty much gone, save for the big piles. Even the ice on the big lake had been reduced by 85%. Spring was in the air. Roads were good, even the ones I take to work. Free of ice, snow, and even the road sand was getting brushed off.
That was earlier today, anyway.
Now we’ve 2 inches of fresh snow on the ground, with 1-4 more expected.
Oh, and there’s about 1/4 inch of ice under the snow.
<<sigh>>
We had snow last night too. Our daffodils and camillias are out. It’s supposed to freeze every night for the next week. We may have a dark spring. 
We had a snow last Monday, but this week we should be good. They are saying maybe rain, but the temps shouldn’t get low enough for snow.
I am so sick of snow. Here in Central Alberta the weather has been brutal.
Tuesday I drove home in a blizzard.
This was my place Thursday morning.
This was my road on Friday. The neighbour blasted a path to the highway, the County plow couldn’t get through.
This is my driveway today.
The wind and snow is supposed to stop as of tomorrow, so maybe I won’t be snowed in anymore by Tuesday.
So That’s a WEEK, that we have been snowed in here.
This is my opinion of the week.
Friday it was nice and the ground was thawed. Somebody ran down the neighbors mailbox and ran up onto our ice bank that was still three feet thick. had they gone farther they’d taken out a vehicle. They took off.
Saturday it was warm.
Sunday it was about 34F and raining all morning, but freezing to certain surfaces. It changed to freezing to most surfaces by noon. In the afternoon that changed towet clumped bb sized sleet. Against the house door it would pile up a couple inches deep and I’d go shovel it. I ended up shoveling in shorts and bare foot, because I just wanted to close the screen door. I realized a couple times that I ended up shoveling the sidewalk like that, when I just wanted to close the screen door. After about one and a half to two inches of sleet failing everywhere the giant wet snow clumps fell for a long time. We have inches of heavy wet snow over the wet sleet layer. Being as the ground had mud sink holes before this snow you can sink through the snow and sleet up to your calf in mud.
During the sleet portion somebody ended up in our front yard again and took off. The last couple years I’ve had to watch too many near fatal accidents from the yard when in front. It ridiculous how the incidents have multiplied and they are because somebody is to impatient or they are distracted.
The sleet layer reduced to about and inch and the snow to about six inches. I still broke through the mud layer this morning.
The birds are clustering now that I switched the old bird feeder with the ice covered one that resembles a stalagmite. The Sandhill Cranes and Canadian Geese have been back localy for about a week already.
Those nice warm days gets everyone revved up. People smile, the sun shines, the car washes are packed and then a WHAMMO kick to the huevos; the snow and cold is back.
WHERE is my global warming?
I was PROMISED global warming.
NOW they’re saying ‘climate change’? Well that is simply not acceptable! That’s meaningless, in fact.
Wisconsin could use some more warmth – not just random ‘change’, which seems to have made this winter and the last among the most severe on record.
Please join me in spraying some aerosol cans into the air. No idea whether that contributes to global warming, but it feels like I’m doing something positive, at least.
I am refusing to shovel the driveway anymore, just on principle. A path for the UPS guy and that’s it. I am done shoveling for this year!!!
I’m sorry, it’s my fault. I moved my snow brush and gloves from the passenger side to the trunk yesterday. Woke up to a brisk storm.
I liked that it was in the 50s this weekend. It melted a lot of the snow. There’s only this much left. “this much” being about 4’ in the backyard…I carved out that parking space myself three weeks ago, so I can assure you that it’s all that deep where we haven’t been shoveling every goddamn storm.
And now it’s snowing. Oh goodie! I can’t wait to shovel the 5 new inches we’re supposed to pick up by the end of the day.
Like Boyo Jim, I feel cheated by global warming. It’s much snowier these past two winters, and had been colder than usual to boot. Someone is getting our warming, and I demand they give it to us as we deserve.
We’re getting the warming here in Colorado. I hear Australia got a bit of it recently too.
We had three days in the mid 70’s last week and yesterday it was 65. I can’t remember the last time it snowed. Sometime in January, I think. It’s supposed to cool off this week, but still highs will be in the high 40’s, which is about normal.
Agh, yes, it’s frustrating. Back in mid-December we got three feet of snow dumped on us. The last of it only got around to melting a week ago, and now we’re getting dumped on again. :smack:
Normally I love a bit of snow, but this winter is really pushing it. At least by now it melts reasonably quickly once it stops falling.
YOU got our warmth. Give it back!
Winter storm warning for tomorrow - reports differ on when it’s supposed to hit, but we could get 6". Maybe. Or it might just be rain - we’re right on the dividing line of this one, apparently. Hurrah.
I still have three icebergs in my yard, rock hard, frozen drifts. The warmth and rain did little to them. And now it’s oh-so-purty icebergs with the snow yesterday. BUT, with the exception of predictions of 50 mph winds tonight, the next few days are supposed to be pretty nice.
That’s how the my 3 foot deep ice pile in the front is. It’s been rained on a lot and that’s what is left.
A stupid ground dove whacked the window this morning. There are feathers stuck to the window.
It has been snowing on and off here for the last three days. Um hello!! This is Seattle. It isn’t supposed to snow here. I am watching another storm cruise in off the Sound right now.
Ack. Quit snowing dammit!
Damn, the commute sucked this am. Snow from 2 to 7 inches on top of ice, then throw in ice fog! It took me an extra half hour. Oh well, no accidents noted, and not even too many people driving boneheadedly around me.
Now it’s melting away, causing lots of localized flooding, as ice dams are plugging the drains.
Can’t wait to see what spring brings. I still remember the May 10 1990 blizzard in Milwaukee, 8 inches of wet, heavy stuff…
[Sunrazor walks out into his yard and counts the dead little trees that were supposed to grow up to shelter his home from the harsh prairie winds, then looks at the irrigation system rendered useless by weeks of dry cold, then checks the weather forecast – continued drought again – and weeps.]
