We got back to the Berkshires yesterday evening, just in time to put away all the deck furniture, etc. (which ended up not really being necessary).

Things relatively close but downhill of us are actually kind of dire, but everything's okay on our street and at our house, where we are at a higher elevation ( Read more... )

Just in case there are any of you who either don't know exactly where I live, or didn't see me tweeting or on FB last night--the tornadoes in Massachusetts all hit east of us, so there's nothing to report here except some serious thunderstorms, hail and high wind (our deck umbrella did end up taking off, but it didn't go far, and it's unhurt ( Read more... )

Issued by The National Weather Service ( Read more... )

There is no one icon that can wrap up all the ups and downs of this weekend, so I'm going with default. Again ( Read more... )

Well, Cassie had an okay time going to sleep, though I had to go up there and cuddle with her for a while, which isn't usual these days. We rubbed her chest with Vicks and put the humidifier on full blast next to her bed. She slept through to about 5:45 am, when she appeared beside my bed, pants around her ankles, crying that she "lost my potty ( Read more... )

Another weather-related closing. There's been a lot this year. It's not actually doing anything yet, but there's supposed to be a huge ice storm today, so all the schools closed. I love the free days off, and I'm not that bummed about them being added to the end of the year, as the seniors are done June 14th either way. But the 8th graders were ( Read more... )

The widget now says -2°.

I have bus duty every afternoon.

Cold snap done tiem nao plz?

ETA: -7° now, and at one point it got down to -10°.

I've had some tea, and now I'm climbing under my down comforter again.

Right now, at this moment, my Weather Channel Desktop widget tells me it's 4° outside ( Read more... )

via weather.com...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 12 PM EST MONDAY ( Read more... )