It’s 5:25 at night. It’s dark. It’s December freakin 23rd. It’s Massachusetts. Why the hell is it 50° and raining? It’s positively balmy out there. I have my windows open and there’s a lovely breeze lightly buffeting the branches on my damn Christmas tree.
We had snow. We were going to have a white Christmas. Yesterday we had windchill below 0°. Tonight, we have the strong possibility of thunderstorms. What the heck is going on here?
Now, no more White Christmas. And worse, if it gets cold, we’re in for one hell of an ice problem. I have a puddle in the street outside my house which is so big it practically has waves and whales.
Is anyone else having strange weather right now? I know Toronto had snow and lots of it. I’m so jealous
What’s strange about 50 degrees in December? Happens pretty much every year that the temperature oscillates wildly during the month. Last year, it was over 60 degrees on December 28th and I went kayaking. If you could * depend * on the temperature being in the 50’s in December, that would be strange. Anyway, we’re back in the icebox this weekend.
It got down into the thirties at night last week. I cannot begin to tell you how unacceptable I found that to be. Southern California had snow last month, someone started a thread. It’s been very strange weather this season.
We midwesterners stole your Christmas snowstorm. We got about ten or twelve inches, here in mid-Indiana. Ninety miles east of here, Richmond got lots more. Heck, even Evansville, on the Ohio river at the southern tip of our state, got a record nineteen inches of snow in one day. Three inches is astounding in Evansville.
Looks like we’ve got Santa Ana winds blowing in San Diego today. I went out for a run and somehow managed to have a headwind on the way out AND the way back. I don’t think it’s supposed to be REAL hot, but having dry winds doesn’t mesh with my vision of Christmas. Even in Southern California.
Late December is the beginning of Winter. Most of the month is still late Fall. Of course the temperatures are going to be weird. (And a White Xmas is the exception, not the norm, for a majority of the US population – another little thing nobody seems to have noticed)
Of course, it could be that due to Global Climate Change – that’s the correct term, not “warming” – the weather’s gona swing more widely for a while.
It’s positively balmy out there. I have my windows open and there’s a lovely breeze lightly buffeting the branches on my damn Christmas tree.
