One of a local Detroit channel’s morning anchors began working there as a meteorologist, which role he occasionally resumes. He did a great job explaining a few types of winter precipitation when we were about to be hit w/that recent ice storm:
What’s outside the window :
“Mon pays” par Gilles Vigneault
What’s on my mind, because it’s March…
Elis Regina & Tom Jobim - “Aguas de Março”
…and this snow’s gonna melt - eventually.
86 degrees farenheit in Central Texas.
Yeah, climate change erasing spring is a thing around here
It was windy, but pleasant here, in the upper 60s or so…
Yesterday was 60f with ferocious winds. Today only reached 29. Temperatures at night may stay above freezing starting tomorrow. Generally the last frost day is around 25 April. Tomorrow I’ll uncover my garlic bed.
I was just about to write the same thing. That happened to us today. It feels like we should be having a hurricane.
We are in a cold snap here; it was -14 C (6.8 F) when I walked the dog this morning. Cold enough that put his winter coat on; he has no undercoat; he’s the first dog I’ve had that’s needed extra protection from the cold.
Woulda been great to be a kite the last 4-5 days, with our also ferocious wind gusts!
We had 3 or 4 days above 50℉, and when I watched a local forecast Sat night, the current temp was 11. Not the wind chill. The wind chills in the greater Detroit area were in the single digits, with one community well N of us at -1℉ !
It me, every single day about everything happening all the time!
Yeah, this has been a weird winter. We had 3 weeks of uncharacteristically cold, dry weather, followed by a snow storm dumping enoigh to shut down everything (admittedly, not hard here), then a pineapple express that brought rain and warm temps. The ski resorts on the mountain approached 60F in the middle of their peak season and we were wearing shorts and t-shirts in the valleys.
Ditto.
We got up to 24°F (13° with wind chill) briefly this afternoon. Going back down to -3° tonight though. Wednesday and Thursday are supposed to get up into the 50s, but pouring rain.
It also freezes immediately to anything and everything it touches. Freezing drizzle can become freezing rain and if it lasts long enough can become devastating.
Stay safe!
I remember that one, mostly because I had a dog-walking acquaintance from that area of Quebec, who still had family there, and talked about the hydro being off for an extended period of time.
We had the huge snowstorm in Toronto that year, that the mayor called in the army to clear the snow for. Reader; we did not need the army to clear the snow.