the country. Blizzard like conditions with 12-24″ of snow and locally even up to
48″. Our luck of course it’ll just be cold and we’ll get 1-2 inches, maybe.
Mother nature, please shift this thing North a little and bring us some snow.
It’s getting really late, but I’m so excited I wanted to post an image.
I saw my first Aurora Borealis / Northern Light tonight! No “Aurora chasing” trip into Canada without seeing anything . No, the Northern Light came all the way down to Maine right near our house:
Not the most spectacular presentation, but nonetheless a dream come true :-)
Southern US. After going through some of my bookmarks, I discovered the CONUS
Area Experimental Graphical Forecast from NOAA – NWS. This may be
online for a while already without my knowledge (disadvantage of direct
bookmarks and watching the weather channel), but this is top of the line weather
viewing, imo.
Click on one of the national areas to load a regional map, hover over the
table on the left and instantly the data appears on the map. Scroll vertically
through the table and you get everything for a time slot. Horizontal scrolling
shows you trends. All of them for the next 5 days, including (!) wind speed
& direction + wave height forecasts. A straightforward detailed 5 day US
marine forecast has been on my request list for so long, it makes me jump up and
down in my chair. Thank you NWS!
Hopefully they get lots of positive
feedback. I’d like this thing to stay around ;)
received another inch of snow last night.
Snow
covered twigs in the river.
real feel of -27F (-33C). I think we’ll just stay inside ;) I cross my fingers
that the building doesn’t run out of heating oil again the way it did last
week!
You may have noticed I said there has been no snow. Well, the
weatherman said last night we only had 0.5″ this January compared to over 12″ on
average. Small difference. Maybe king winter still packs a big punch, but right
now the lack of snow is a problem for the winter sports.
nippy this morning!!” Inside the car I stare at a can of Mountain Dew left
overnight in the cup holder – ready to explode. It expanded every possible mm,
bulging 10mm at the top & 15mm at the bottom. Wow! It must really be cold.
I fire up the engine, look at the overhead display and it’s a whopping
-24C (-12F)
!!
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This
morning it’s “milder” with only -11C (13F) -
Right! ;)
- But, get this: Thursday & Friday we are looking at
daytime high
temperatures of -20C (-4F)! Yes, daytime high. Somebody left the door
open at the North Pole. Better keep warm!
:) The forecast reads 11F (-12C) tomorrow morning with a real feel of -4F
(-20C). Not too bad. But, get this: on Mount Washington, NH it is currently -12F
(-24C) with a real feel of -50F (-46C) because there’s 68 to 81 MPH (109 to 120
km/h) winds! I can’t imagine how cold that is
But it does remind me
of the movie The
Endurance. British explorer Sir Shackleton and his crew survived for
nearly 2 years through such unimaginable circumstances during their expedition
to the South Pole on which they departed in 1914. It really gives a new meaning
to exploring & adventure. Forget reality TV & survivor shows, 2 years on
Antarctica that’s survival!
record that there has been no snow yet. There is still hope as long as we’re not
going for #1 this winter (hum hum), but eh, why o why is it that when we go
somewhere there are these weather extremes or abnormalities in some form or
another? Like the heat-wave that broke all records in Europe past summer -
without air-conditioning! And before that the … ;)
[
Can't be coincidence! But then other people have this too so it must be
conspiracy! ]
… let it snow … let it snow … let it snow
…
While we were in New Hampshire today we saw the first little
flurries of the season while it was 35-40F (2-4C) outside.
Sign that
winter looms on the horizon?
First snowball
:)