Batten Down the Hatches! Maggie Shayne
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Friday, March 16, 2007
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I'm jumping in today because several of our bloggers are out of town, though I know they'll post when they can. I thought I'd fill the space in between with a tiny rant.I'm supposed to get a blizzard today.
Yep, she who's been predicting an early spring (and still believes it) is about to get dumped on. It's a nor'easter, folks, and it's supposed to begin in my neck of the woods around noon today (Friday) and continue overnight, leaving a total of 10 to 18 inches of white stuff in its wake. And it's almost the Vernal Freaking Equinox for the love of heaven!
This does not in any way negate my prediction of an early spring. It was in the 60's here last Wednesday, and by this coming Thursday it'll be in the 50's again. So spring IS coming. This snow storm will probably be far less menacing than the weathermen are saying (drama sells commercials after all) and it will all melt within a day or two anyway. It'll be like it never happened. IF it happens at all. I predict a dusting to two inches, all melting during the course of Saturday.
So let it be written, so let it be done!
I'll pop into the commnt area with storm updates for anyone who wants to follow along as I'm proven right (or wrong, as unlikely as that is.)
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5 Comments :
12:18 PM
Okay, if I look really hard I can see a few microscopic bits of snow in the air, tinier than confetti, and few and far between. It's kind of dark and gloomy, and the temp here is about 26 (F). Already, some of the local schools are cancelling after school activities. Ha! Just buying into that weatherguy's hype. I don't believe you, Brandolino! There will NOT be a major storm, there will not be 10 to 18 inches. No, no, no! After all, you said it would start by noon, and it's a few minutes PAST and I don't see any storm. HA!
Stay tuned!
It's been so hot here (well, not today, it's socked-in fog, but still in the sixties and will probably warm up when the sun breaks) that I can't visualize snow anywhere. Snow is impossible, so I'm with you, Maggie. Winter is over and spring has sprung.
Those weather guys in your neck of the woods are such killjoys. What does a certain groundhog have to do to get their attention, bite them in the butt?
Suz, visualizing sun and sprouting crocuses in Maggie's neck of the woods...
5:00 PM
(Ignore the time stamp, I'm on EST and it's apparently on the West Coast.) Well, it's snowing pretty hard now, a fine powder that seems unlikely to pile up too deeply. It started about five minutes after my last post, and so far, has only added up to about an inch. I suppose it could pile deeper overnight, but I'm thinking positively!
I hope you don't wake up to a winter wonderland, Maggie, but if you do, go out and fling yourself into and make a snow angel before you do anything else.
Or ... you could pee in it, but that might be chilly.
Hugs,
Suz
8:22 a.m. (Saturday)
It's morning. I just went out and took measurements in three different locations, and consistently got 4.75 inches of snow.
What fell was very wet and very heavy, but that seems odd, because it was so cold, well below freezing. Even now it's only 15 degrees out, and the snow still seems packy. I have no doubt the weatherguys will have some formula for measuring it according to moisture content, proving we actually did get what they predicted. But using the tried and true yardstick method, 4 and 3/4 inches is NOT the same at 10 to 18, folks. And it's done. It has completely stopped.
I am so happy about that. I'm sure this was Winter's last gasp, especially considering that the Spring Equinox is Tuesday, when it will be forty. (Weatherguy says 32, but I'm high on a swell of confidence after my defiant snowfall predictions proved true.) So I'll say forty and get ready to go joggging on Tuesday.
Thanks for joining in the fun.
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