01 February 2008

whacko weather

Ok...for the last few weeks we've been seeing some funky weather. The weather people say it is due to a "la Nina" system. Come on, folks...this is odd weather even for that.


Imagine a normal winter day, cloudy and about 25ish degrees. Not bad--easy to get through. Usually we get a few bitter patches--0 degrees with negative windchill, sometimes worse. But we are fluctuating in 7 to 10 day-long courses from bitter single digits to 50+, getting tons of lake effect snow in between. We are currently in our fourth go round.


Today is a lake effect snow day. Really the snow wouldn't be so terrible if it would quit drifting. It makes roads and sidewalks impossible to keep clear. I'm about to go shovel the sidewalk for the second time this morning before I open the store.

Moon: waning crescent.

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