Winter Wonderland

It's difficult to truly get into the spirit of the Christmas season when the temperatures we mild.  At least that's the situation for me.  It just doesn't feel like Christmas time until the winter weather kicks in.  Give me some chilly temps and a few snow flurries and I start feeling like a happy little Christmas elf!

This past weekend, Winter decided to make its presence known a good two weeks before it's official arrival.   And this was no mild little cold front and some flurries. It was a full on winter storm with 10+ inches of snow!

All week long they had been predicting a slight chance of snow.  Maybe up to a half inch.  Nothing much at all, really.  By Thursday the weather man was saying... "perhaps 1 to 2 inches in some areas".

When I woke up Friday morning, that 1 to 2 inches they had predicted was already on the ground and the snow was pouring down.  At that point the forecast was for 3 to 6 inches.    And by 9am it was updated again to 6 to 9 inches.

By the time it was all said and done on Saturday - we ended up with over 10 inches of snow at our house!

A Slow Thaw

There is one word for how the weather has been around these parts for the past week or so:  Brrrrr!

Yesterday we had sleet and freezing rain to deal with.  Which is no fun!  I personally would rather have several inches of snow than a glaze of ice any day.

Fortunately, through the grace of God, the ice wasn't enough to cause a power outage, and didn't stick around very long.

Today the temperatures are actually above freezing.  And we are expecting 60s (Fahrenheit) for the weekend.  A chance to thaw out and warm up!

Don't count old man winter down and out just yet though.  Around here a snow or ice storm can happen well into April.  And the biggest blizzard in memory took place in the middle of March.

At this point in my life I've learned to just go with it.  It's the weather.  Whatever is gonna happen, is gonna happen.

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