I arrived yesterday here in the frozen north. It turned out that my plane reservations were for (probably) the optimum day, in terms of road conditions getting to and from the airport, though that's not to say the road conditions were good.
Now we are just sitting tight, getting ready for the forecast blizzard.
It's looking like, yet again, this year isn't going to be the best one for you to come over to visit me here in Port Hadlock.
I suspect that with global climate change, this type of weather is going to become more routine for this time of year in the Pacific NW. It seems to me that we have had "unusual" snow storms at this time of year at least two years (maybe three?) in a row. Enough so that I'm not at all surprised by this weather.
I made my mom back her car up this morning so that I could do iphy's jumprope workout in the non-snowy spot under the car. I was up to the challenge of jumping rope at 15 degrees F, and actually found it pretty invigorating, but my poor jumprope was apparently not designed for such extreme
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I don't think I'm going to get to see anyone outside our immediate neighborhood on this trip -- we're snowed in and can't get any of the cars out, and many of the roads around here are impassible even if we could. I expect it will only get worse after the blizzard.
You're right that a bunch of the winters here have had snow lately. Several of the Boston winters lately have been unusually mild. It's hard to know yet what are actual trends and what are just statistical noise, especially as I know nothing about the specifics of climate change predictions... but it will be interesting to see if these changes continue.
Poor jumprope! Glad you're enjoying the workout. I intend to start it once I can get my hands on a jumprope of the appropriate length. But possibly not in 15 degree weather... we'll see.
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In my experience, this is the single most important factor in the magicalness of snow.
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Now we are just sitting tight, getting ready for the forecast blizzard.
It's looking like, yet again, this year isn't going to be the best one for you to come over to visit me here in Port Hadlock.
I suspect that with global climate change, this type of weather is going to become more routine for this time of year in the Pacific NW. It seems to me that we have had "unusual" snow storms at this time of year at least two years (maybe three?) in a row. Enough so that I'm not at all surprised by this weather.
I made my mom back her car up this morning so that I could do iphy's jumprope workout in the non-snowy spot under the car. I was up to the challenge of jumping rope at 15 degrees F, and actually found it pretty invigorating, but my poor jumprope was apparently not designed for such extreme ( ... )
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I don't think I'm going to get to see anyone outside our immediate neighborhood on this trip -- we're snowed in and can't get any of the cars out, and many of the roads around here are impassible even if we could. I expect it will only get worse after the blizzard.
You're right that a bunch of the winters here have had snow lately. Several of the Boston winters lately have been unusually mild. It's hard to know yet what are actual trends and what are just statistical noise, especially as I know nothing about the specifics of climate change predictions... but it will be interesting to see if these changes continue.
Poor jumprope! Glad you're enjoying the workout. I intend to start it once I can get my hands on a jumprope of the appropriate length. But possibly not in 15 degree weather... we'll see.
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