It's that time again--F*ck you Mother Nature!

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I'm watcing Little House and Charles said, "Winter was over a month ago. There were flowers in the windowbox when we left home. Too late in the year for a blizzard." Yeah, that's gonna be us in March/April. Irv, I expect some sightings postings from you.

Might be us down here too . . . it's happened before in late March (anyone recall the Great Blizzard of 1993?)

So far we've bounced between 50's and 40's for highs . . . except for a day or two last week where the high did not get out of the 30's. Today I've been off and it's in the 40's and raining off and on.

Bleh.

[Food Lady]

I'm watcing Little House and Charles said, "Winter was over a month ago. There were flowers in the windowbox when we left home. Too late in the year for a blizzard." Yeah, that's gonna be us in March/April. Irv, I expect some sightings postings from you.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

And of course it has to come on the one day this week I'm scheduled to work.

*grumble mutter mutter*

Actually, and I fully expect to be hunted down for this, I was kinda hoping for some snow. Why, you ask? Because my company's DC is trying to purge out all the winter stuff like snow shovels, sleds, and what not, and it all seems to be coming to my store, and getting stuffed in backstock on top of the huge quantities of that stuff we had to begin with.

I will need to go out to do a little shopping later. I'll see if the apocalypse shoppers are out.

[Food Lady]

Well, it's 45 and gorgeous outside, which means, of course, that the biggest snowstorm of the season is headed my way. It looks like it will hit the whole state, and I think it will be that wet, heavy stuff we hate. My back doesn't need this.

[blas]

Meh, we're under an ice advisory, but I'm not too worried because it will be well above freezing by the time I have to go to work, and the system is more to the east. There were just a few drops on my windshield a few hours ago on my way home.

I'm more worried about Wednesday/Thursday than anything. Starting as rain, turning into snow overnight.

I really don't want to miss work, even though I have time to cover for it, I'd rather not lose money if I didn't have to. Especially even though I know I can call if I have to, I will have to be careful that I don't waste it, lest we finally get our annual huge dumping sometime between next week and January 1 (when I will have more time to use if need be).

I am hoping this is the worst of the worst. In all honesty, I'd rather have the bone chilling, lung hurting cold, because at least then, there's no moisture for the air to work with and make snow out of. Can it snow? Oh yeah, anytime. But does it snow when it's freezing? Not really.

January in this part of Wisconsin is usually dustings and an inch or two here and there of snow, but mostly just spending most of the month below zero. Two or three years ago, we were below zero 28 out of the 31 days of the month. It sucks, it hurts, it wrecks your hair and skin.....but I'd still take that than 30 degrees and the risk of a blizzard.

I hate to be Debbie Downer but every time it warms up, I worry. I just know there's a system coming, and then a deep freeze afterwards. So screw it. I'd rather just let it be cold and not do anything else.

[BrenDAnn]

Forecast around here says we're supposed to be in the low 40s, high 30s for the next few days, with drizzle/rain. Should melt what little snow we have, but I am worried about it getting icy. We'll see! I can't decide if this is going to be a short winter (given that we have, so far, only had some 3 or 4 inches of snow and the temps haven't been bad) or if it's gonna bury is in January and keep us buried until fucking June!

[Jester]

Fifties down here would send everyone indoors panicking about the hole in the ozone layer opening over South Australia

(Hint-we measure our temp in Celsius)

Heh. I'm from Arizona, and I have seen 50C, which is 122F, which happens to be, if I recall correctly, the hottest temp Phoenix ever hit. Again, if I recall correctly, that was June 26, 1990. Fun day! (No, not really. Even for me it was just way too hot.)

[blas]

Any time it warms up, doom is on its way.

We're out of the negatives and single digits, but of course, when temps go above the teens, that means..........SNOW. Or freezing rain and snow.

Tomorrow night, freezing rain/snow mix. However, they are more focused on Wednesday night/Thursday morning, as a worse system is supposedly approaching.

I'm so sick of this shit. I really am. It took nearly a week to clean up just the few inches of snow we got a week ago, my parking lot is glare ice, sideroads are glare ice.........and now, it's time for winter cake making. Ice under snow under ice under snow under slush under ice.

[BeenThereDoneThat]

Warm enough here, but rained all day today. I know a lot of people were looking forward to the downtown Christmas light parade here, hope it didn't get rained out.

[Victory Sabre]

It's supposed to be in the mid 30's where I'll be tomorrow - in the middle of Lake of the Woods. Perfect ice fishing weather. There's no snow up there, either.

[Cazzi]

We finally got an inch or so of snow yesterday after a couple of weeks of cold/warm/rain/freeze/wind/hail!
Its mostly gone again now though.

[protege]

Let's see now...it's nearly 40 F outside and sunny. What little snow we got earlier in the week...didn't last long. I might put up the Christmas lights, and take a certain vehicle for a spin today

[blas]

Yeah, it's been freezing here, too.

Damn. After that storm, it non-stop flurried from Sunday all the way through Wednesday morning. Made for shit roads, and 2 or so more inches of snow.

But thankfully, we're clean for now, and I will have enough PTO to call in if this next storm they are trying to beef up grows in intensity. This one sounds like a slick, wet mess.

[Chromatix]

Over here, we *finally* have had a little bit of snow.

It's still not actually *cold* yet (by local standards), but that now seems to be a matter of time, specifically waiting for the sea to start freezing. At the moment, with the sea unfrozen, it keeps the temperatures from going below freezing point for miles inland.

[fireheart]

You evil creature.

Pfffft, fifties is WARM. Fifties is practically a heat wave. Suck it up.

It is 11 degrees right now. Fucking cold. I swear, our heat in this apartment is shit.

Fifties down here would send everyone indoors panicking about the hole in the ozone layer opening over South Australia

(Hint-we measure our temp in Celsius)