And it continues...
Feb. 4th, 2008 09:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoFinished the spinning guild newsletter for February, so that's done for another month.
The weather clowns aren't done with us yet. This morning we had thundershowers on top of the four to five inches of snow that accumulated overnight. I don't remember the last time (if ever) that I saw lightning in February. The forecast called for dropping temperatures and snow in the afternoon, but instead we got fog that grew denser and denser as the day went on. Finally the weather service issued a "dense fog advisory" (as if you couldn't tell there was fog out there the minute you walked out the door.)
It's pea soup out there now. The snow did not melt, it just got very wet and saturated, like a wet sponge. Starting tomorrow afternoon, we are on a "winter storm watch" with more snow expected. The overnight accumulation may be as much as seven inches. I don't remember this much snow in a single winter since 1978-79, the year Michael Bilandic was tossed out of the mayor's office because Chicago did so poorly at keeping the streets clear. In fact, the snowfall Friday was the worst single accumulation in Chicago since that year, though it was lighter here. Total snow for the season is already approaching 38 inches. In the last six years, we've had more like 20 inches each year, sometimes less. The season is nowhere near over, either. After tomorrow night's predicted six to seven inches, it is supposed to snow again every day for the rest of the week.
The weather clowns aren't done with us yet. This morning we had thundershowers on top of the four to five inches of snow that accumulated overnight. I don't remember the last time (if ever) that I saw lightning in February. The forecast called for dropping temperatures and snow in the afternoon, but instead we got fog that grew denser and denser as the day went on. Finally the weather service issued a "dense fog advisory" (as if you couldn't tell there was fog out there the minute you walked out the door.)
It's pea soup out there now. The snow did not melt, it just got very wet and saturated, like a wet sponge. Starting tomorrow afternoon, we are on a "winter storm watch" with more snow expected. The overnight accumulation may be as much as seven inches. I don't remember this much snow in a single winter since 1978-79, the year Michael Bilandic was tossed out of the mayor's office because Chicago did so poorly at keeping the streets clear. In fact, the snowfall Friday was the worst single accumulation in Chicago since that year, though it was lighter here. Total snow for the season is already approaching 38 inches. In the last six years, we've had more like 20 inches each year, sometimes less. The season is nowhere near over, either. After tomorrow night's predicted six to seven inches, it is supposed to snow again every day for the rest of the week.
