Snow...

[ostarella]

Well, first real winter storm is supposed to hit here starting Saturday afternoon into Saturday night. 5-8 inches of snow expected. I'm supposed to work tomorrow night but unless the storm moves to miss us (which is still a hopeful possibility) I ain't budging.

Guess it was too much to hope we wouldn't get anything until closer to Xmas...

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[beckyblack]

It's finally starting to get frosty here, but so far we've had a ridiculously warm and dry autumn. All kinds of weird effects. Birds that should have gone south ages ago still hanging around. Flowers blooming that shouldn't. Drought warnings for parts of the country. Retailers crying because nobody is buying coats or boots yet.

Yet this time last year we'd had a massive amount of snow already. (Massive in British terms anyway.) And that wasn't normal either. Abnormal - it's the new normal.

[ostarella.livejournal.com]

Abnormal is right. Thanksgiving Day (a week ago Thursday) it got up to almost 60F. Then it dropped down into the 30s. Then up in the 50s. Then down in the 20s.

Good grief...

[beckyblack]

Temperature is going up and down here too. Yesterday morning there was a pretty hefty frost, proper windscreen scraping weather. But this morning it's about 7 Celsius out there (that's 45F.) Well above freezing. Weird.

[billy-shriner.livejournal.com]

I tell you what, it's been raining here! Lots! But at least it's not snow.

We have grit/salt on sale in our store... but nobody's really buying it. Lol! I reckon we'll have a mild winter, get proper cold around February.

[beckyblack]

Of course when the snow actually comes they'll all come rushing in panic-buying the salt and then you'll run out and they'll just panic. :D

It's just so unpredictable. Look at that poor council who, determined not to be caught out like last year, got mocked because they had their road gritters on standby from 1st October. Then 1st October was like 80 degrees and warmer than Greece or whatever. Can't win.