What a frustrating meteorological event.
It snowed lightly but consistently for about four hours today. It was thick enough to limit driving visibility to maybe two-thirds of normal. No accumulation, though. The coldest I saw on the truck thermometer on the way home from work tonight was 34°.
We just miss significant snowfall every winter now. This time we have tons of moisture, but the thermometer reading is just a bit too tall. Other times the temperature is ideal, but the damned system won’t hold together. That happened a bunch two winters ago. In early 2006 I remember sipping a snifter of Single Barrel, seeing 27.6° on the thermometer on the living room wall, and watching on Doppler a massive wall of water closing rapidly on us from the west, only to have my heart broken as it repeatedly evanesced into nothing 20 miles short of us.
I remember appreciating that I’d had the foresight to avoid talking it up to Nathan.
As I write the rain is all over the place, yet the thermometer defiantly reads 33.8°. Just four or so more degrees, and we’d have three or four inches of snow tomorrow morning.
So close. So far.
I’ve mentioned before that I’m not a big fan of winter, but I do enjoy the occasional snow-in (and a community that doesn’t own a snowplow shuts all the way down at about two inches of snowfall). I’m beginning to think I may have imagined that such used to happen once or twice every winter, because it’s been seven or eight years since we had one. There has been an occasional late morning commute and such in recent years, but nothing paralyzing.
I’ve not been snowed in with my kids yet. We should get that once or twice while they’re young, you know?
It’s only mid-January. Hope.
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My snow is much more fun than your snow. Know why? You guys know it’s coming every year, so your cities and townships purchase plows, so you have to get out in it. We don’t. We’ve got a salt and/or gravel truck or two for bridges and raised highway sections, and that’s it. We’re pretty much completely immobilized by two inches of snow. Seriously. When there’s nothing to do but stay home and relax…of course I want it!
Remember the blizzard of ’93? Ha! I was telling my kids about it, and my son was looking at me in wide-eyed astonishment. “You are SO LUCKY!” he exclaimed. Then, he proceeded to tell me how they took the wheels of their skateboards so they could go grass-boarding down the hill. I think I need to write a post about that show. Many things happened that have shaped my life. Weird.
Oh, and that one was in late march, so there is still hope.
Yeah, I’m with you on this one, Bo. My daughter is nearly 14, and she doesn’t have a “real” snowfall in her memory. The ONE time it snowed a couple of inches (New Year’s Eve, 2000), we were in Orlando. Go figure. Everyone should have one snow day a year – should be law that we get one April 1 if we never got a real one. Stores should close – we would all just pretend. I remember the ’93 snow, and it was GREAT. I wouldn’t want to deal with it all the time, but it doesn’t seem like too much to ask to have it once every other year or so. And I’m REALLY sick of all of my “told you so” friends who think it’s funny that I watch the long-range forecasts starting about October. What a bunch of freakin’ cynics. UGH. Frustrated much???? Yep. BTW – there’s a 20% chance of a dusting on Saturday. Could happen. Here’s to hoping. 😉
They’ve crept up to 40% from 20% for the chance of snow tomorrow night, and issued a statement that underscores that snowfall potential could change dramatically with slight movements of this system and that. So we’ll see.
It almost doesn’t count unless it’s a schoolnight, but Melanie, as you said by email today, I’ll take what I can get.