That is what we're having today ( Read more... )

Right now it's only light snow, but it's starting to stick and become a bit heavier. Where I live, we're in the 8"-12" projected range, and by late afternoon we're supposed to have wind gusts of up to 50 miles per hour. I'm quite pleased to see the snow, but I will not be ALL the way pleased about the snow until I know that S is safely at home ( ( Read more... )

. . . and more bombogenesis. This one should only give us a foot or so of snow. It was clever to wait until we'd gotten rid of the snow off our yards (it washed away in yesterday's persistent rain), but as the piles along the edges of streets and in parking lots are still there, I'm not sure it will help the ploughs at all!


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Tonight, we're getting a wee bit more snow. Not sure how much the final tally will be, but we've been told to expect only an inch or two ( Read more... )

This evening, another snow storm is coming our way here in New Jersey. We appear to be located on the border between "major" and "crippling" snowfall, if our local forecast is to be believed. It will be a classic Nor'easter, with the snowstorm that's currently in Chicago joining forces with the storm tracking across the south, so that we'll end up ( Read more... )

Today, like yesterday, has dawned clear and bright - extremely bright, really, due to the snow glare ( Read more... )

Given the near-blizzard conditions outside - lovely large flakes blowing nearly sideways, piling atop fenceposts and blowing the birds about as they try to light on the feeder - I thought this poem was pretty much perfect for today.

The Snowstorm
by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Announced by all the trumpets of the sky ( Read more... )

No, not a top 10 list of anything . . . turns out that the snowstorm that has arrived (and has quite a while until it departs late tomorrow) is likely to make the top 10 list of snowstorms in the history of weather records in our area ( Read more... )

Today, a poem from my never-been-published collection of moon poems. It seemed appropriate to post, given that we are supposed to get hit with a snowstorm that may reach blizzard proportions starting in the middle of the afternoon.

Snow Moon
by Kelly R. Fineman

Around the moon,
a ring of mist
foretells the ground
will soon be kissed
by snow.


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Not that it's a complete surprise, but the kids had no school today. Having driven around town a bit today, I have to say that I will be surprised if they go to school on time tomorrow - a lot of the main roads aren't fully cleared and some of the major intersections are a mess. With so many kids relying on buses, I'm pretty certain that we're ( Read more... )