Not much in the way of snow, but looks like we’re getting -30 again tonight. Ummm…yay?
My new snow blower broke down during a whole lot of heavy snow in January, and I had to go out and shovel. Now that it’s fixed . . . no snow.
If you value your safety, do not complain about “all this snow” in front of Oslo residents right now. I mean it, you’d better have at least a meter on the ground if you say that. We’re all a little… edgy right now. <strokes baseball bat>
Yep, Saskatchewan keeps dishing out the cold. About -20 here right now. The forecast calls for an above zero weekend though. Think warm…think warm
Today it will be 80. There was still snow on the ground last Thursday.
Be hopeful.
Where are you located?!
Ooh, the prediction for 50 mph winds tonight has been downgraded to 45 mph. Yay. My icebergs are still there, but losing mass.
Today, rainy and gray, but warmish. Something like mid-40s predicted. I’ll take it.
Established snow is one thing.
Tons of snow that goes away finally, suckering you into feeling the joy of spring, only to have it return with a vengeance, ice-slick roads underlying the snow, that gets to a person.
A few days release from a mildly constraining bondage, only to be returned suddenly to full lockdown, makes me a bit crazy.
I’ve also been working in a prison too long, it seems.
Today we have flooded roads again. These are the same roads that were flooded last year and multiple times this winter. Did they fix the drainage problem after last years floods? No. Being under water all the time has broken up the asphalt really nice though. Six to twelve inch deep potholes under six inches of water is car damage waiting to happen.
Current temperature in PiperLand: -32. Not counting windchill.
Well, yeah, I can see how that might get to a person.
Snow that won’t stop coming, that breaks 30-year-old records for total snowfall in a winter but that assumed melting in between snowfalls which has not happened this winter, that fills every area that has been set aside for snow-dumping to dangerously overflowing, that leaves people unable to shovel their driveways because they have literally no place to put more snow, that blocks lines of sight all over the place so that parents worry about kids walking familiar routes to school and drivers have stiff necks from craning their heads around to try to see traffic on side roads… THAT kind of gets to a person. Even a person in a city that is used to snow, a city that laughs at winter and finds Londoners a source of great amusement every January.
I found this article from the Daily Torygraph on line, but the author is trying to maintain her stiff upper lip. The “snow” category on her blog is a good bit more honest.
So don’t make me use my shovel for anything I might regret, mmmmkay?
Today’s high is 82 with a low of 60. Currently, it is 81, sunny, 39% humidity and a NNE wind of 6 mph. Our only snow is the caked-on yellow oak pollen on the cars.
This is the time of year that makes people want to move to Florida – then they suffer through a summer and many of them move back home.
ETA: Y’all is crazy. Looks like a whole bunch of trouble – and I’ve never seen the stuff in person.
I wouldn’t complain about snow like you’ve got.
That’s because that much snow for that long would have driven me stark raving mad and incapable of enough coherency to complain.
Take up skiing. Vid from Friday night: Loch Lomond Pine
Powder’s nice. So’s packed snow. But all we have here is either slush or wet ice. Not even good for x-country or snowshoing! :mad:
Well, I’m safe then. We have well over a meter still on the ground. It’s not quite as bad as last winter though, when we got over 3 meters of snow.
Tell you what. You can have all of our extra Texas warmth, provided you take it from May to November. Seriously, November.
Right now, at half after midnight, I have the AC going in my room.
What is “snow”?? 
My grandma told me if was the angels barfing.
I thought I’d bump this to give everyone a bit of Schadenfreude. After our string of 70 degree days, we have blooming tulips and the fruit trees have just started flowering.
Tomorrow we are expecting 10 - 20" of snow and blizzard conditions. We do need it, though - we are about 20" below average this season. Many parks and golf courses and common areas have already had to turn on their sprinklers because it’s been so dry.
:eek:
Oh my god! You poor baby! Please come to MS and visit. We’ll have a nice bourbon on the front porch in our flip flops and grill vegetables for dinner (my night tonight).
Oh, I feel so bad for bitching about the pollen. I hate cold weather with a bitter bitter bile. I feel sorry for you. But really, the offer stands. For anyone that has to endure that crap during March. We’re in golf weather here, folks.