Comments | meecie: I promise to TRY not to whine to much about the weather

meecie

I promise to TRY not to whine to much about the weather

Feb 12, 2014 08:11

It's weird how morning temps below zero start to feel normal after a while. -4 by the bank clock as I drove by this morning. There was a weather alert for freezing fog, and I admit I consider very cold-weather fog to be a new phenomenon to me. I'm used to "the air is warmer than the snow" snow fog, and I've certainly seen frosty mornings, but this ( Read more... )

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nosemovie February 12 2014, 13:36:30 UTC

it's like smoke, but with frosting. Too strange.

It's 50! this morning. So friggin strange. 22 then 50, in a few day's time. And of course, mud.

Yeah, I'm ready for summer. Not even spring. Spring is muddy too! but summer... yeah.

semperfido February 12 2014, 14:08:10 UTC

We were having the 20s then up to 50 then to 70 then to 20 again over the course of 7 days. It's crazy. I'm crossing my fingers we are now in the clear. 10 day forecast is for 70s all week.

nosemovie February 12 2014, 15:24:03 UTC

Yeah, how is your body supposed to react to that? And dog coats! how are they supposed to know how much hair to keep and how much to leave all over your house?

semperfido February 12 2014, 15:51:32 UTC

I know and they can't even have baths! It's really hard - I think my dogs are sick of each other right now - no one is playing and more squabbling than I've seen - we all have cabin fever except for the one nice day we've had per week. I've been chugging emergence daily. Our trial this weekend, Friday didn't even reach 30 degrees and it was a covered horse arena - no sides so the elements were present. Shasta wore two coats and I had about 5 layers on and we drove down in ice. Then Sunday it was about 75.

Last year, we were consistently in the 50s and 60s with a couple of freezes overnight until May. There was a smattering of warmer days. It was perfect.

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meecie February 12 2014, 14:20:20 UTC

It's absolutely beautiful out. The trees are getting whiter and whiter as the fog freezes, and it's going to be at least partly sunny, so everything is bright.

It's just dangerously cold. I know what you mean about feeling warm at temps I used to think were brutal!

semperfido February 12 2014, 14:09:10 UTC

We had a bunch of freezing fog down here. I mad fun of the news guys saying hey, it's just fog but maybe not… I swear we had that stuff in NH growing up.

semperfido February 12 2014, 14:12:23 UTC

Looks like you guys have ice fog, rather than freezing fog. Interesting…
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/jkl/?n=fog_types

meecie February 12 2014, 14:18:31 UTC

Oh, COOL. I was just starting a post that said I thought maybe I didn't have enough words for fog. The "freezing fog" I'm used to happens when temps are much warmer, in the 20s or 30s.

Thanks for the link!

dionysus1999 February 12 2014, 16:29:27 UTC

But have you seen diamond dust? ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_dust

meecie February 12 2014, 16:35:35 UTC

Is that what was falling today? I drove home around 10 am and it really looked like the air was sparkling. It was GORGEOUS.

talesofmyboys February 12 2014, 19:31:22 UTC

I do not think I could survive one of your regular winters, let alone this one.