That lion's back again

[altivo]

I've been watching the weather map turn hot pink all around us. The Wisconsin counties to the north of us and the Illinois counties the the west and south all have winter storm warnings now. Our own county plus the ones immediately east and west of us are still only on a snow advisory.

The temperature outside is still well above freezing, but what was predicted this morning as a "75% chance of rain mixed with snow, little or no accumulation" has transmogrified into "100% chance of precipitation, rain will change to snow after 1 am, overnight accumulation of about one inch." The big one, though, is tomorrow's forecast, which has gone from possible scattered rain to snow most of the day, heavy at times, with accumulations of 2 to 4 inches or more, especially along the Wisconsin state line.

It's too late in the year for this, Lion. What is it you want from me? Wait, no, don't answer that...

Comments

[lobowolf.livejournal.com]

We're supposed to get 6 to 8" of snow on Thursday. It's April 10th and I'm bringing in wood for the stove.

This sucks.

[alaskawolf.livejournal.com]

snow snow go away :P sadly this is normal weather for me :(

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Duh, yeah. But I thought wolves liked that sort of weather. Aren't you born to it? ;p

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Sounds like the same storm system that's dumping slush on us here right now.

[dakhun.livejournal.com]

Lions don't like the winter, or the cold, and would be very puzzled by their association with it. Lions live in tropical warm places, whereas sheep (lambs) with their thick wooly coats are obviously more adapted for colder climates. Everyone knows this, yet that old adage about March has clearly got it backwards temperature-wise.

At least it is noticeably warmer than it was in February...

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Like it or not, the lions are stuck with it, just as we equines are stuck with that stupid reputation for outsized equipment. ;p

[songdogmi.livejournal.com]

It would be outsized on anyone but an equine.
Oh, wait, you're talking about tack. OK. :)

[dakhun.livejournal.com]

I was thinking that March should come in like a snow leopard, and leave like... possibly a wet snow leopard. :-P
But now you've distracted me with thoughts of horses. ;-)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I rather like snow leopards, actually, though I guess they aren't supposed to have very nice temperaments. And I doubt they care for being all wet...

[hrrunka]

Whoo! I guess the weather during the FKO weekend in Toronto was a patch of mildness and not spring arriving, then. It was getting close to +20C when I took this photo in a park in Toronto on March 28th.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Nice. I don't think we've seen a day like that yet this spring. It's been warm a few times, but always cloudy.

[dakhun.livejournal.com]

It probably still looks like that, in Toronto, like it does here. It also looked like that here in early January. There were a few trace accumulations of snow around here in the past week, but it always melted within a day. There might be more tonight though (as much as 5-10cm by some estimates, but even if it does it will probably melt really quickly).

All of the really bad snow lately has been on the south side of the US-Canada border. :-)

[hrrunka]

Hmmm... Could be, though I hear (from a later log in a geocache I'd found that day) that it dipped back down to -6C the following week. Niagara was still showing signs of winter's grip though. These were taken on the 22nd March:

[chibiabos.livejournal.com]

The lion wants to snug you indoors ... :P

[altivo.livejournal.com]

As long as he's a friendly lion, I'll go for that. It's yucky outside this morning. An inch of slushy snow and more falling hard. Huge slops of it keep falling off the trees onto the roof, sounding like badgers running around up there. And the lights keep flickering, too. Thank goodness for UPSes.

[songdogmi.livejournal.com]

The radar maps at the NWS Detroit office have been indicating that it has been snowing (or something) for hours, but snow only just started a few minutes ago.

It made me think: There are a lot of TV shows about destructive weather like tornadoes and blizzards. There should be a show about weather that's not destructive but is just plain weird. Like when snow falls in April (or May). There probably isn't enough material to support a long series of shows, but just one or two might be entertaining. Because, let's face it, all tornadoes on TV look the same after awhile--"Big swirly wind, stuff flying anywhere, *yawn*".

Um, enough of that tangent, huh? :)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Conditions here right now would fly on reality TV all right. I hope you don't get this. It's been slushing (neither rain nor snow) for hours now, since well before sunrise. There are up to six inches of slop on the ground and more falling, with high winds that actually blow the heavy stuff around. The power has been flickering on and off all day, and when I started out for work at noonish, I found the main road between home and work was in the process of being closed due to spinouts and drifting snow. By then it was going to be as difficult to go back home as to go on in, so I took an alternate route and got here anyway. The parking lot and library plaza are covered in six or more inches of slush, and the chairwoman of the library board called a few minutes ago to say we should close down. However, the boss is out to lunch, and I can't make that decision, so we're in a holding pattern. I expect we won't stay open for the full day, though.

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

Can't you ship your snow over to us dying of thirst down here?

[altivo.livejournal.com]

It's melting here already, so I don't think I could find a way to package it so it would reach you. How about capturing some of those ice shelves that are "calving" off from Antarctica and towing them home? Much shorter trip, isn't it?