Still more cold

[altivo]

Well, you say, it's January. True enough, but usually the third or fourth week in January brings us the "January Thaw" here, with three or four days of temperatures well above freezing. Not this year. Right now they say we'll break freezing over the weekend, by a degree or two, and then plunge back into the deep freeze on Monday.

Gary is finding out that school is work. I advised him not to jump right in with both feet but he did, taking three classes at once. Now he's feeling the load, with homework every night and extra long classes and lab sessions that are getting in the way of his other activities. Not getting enough sleep either, staying up late working on homework. That's not good, because he's doing a lot more driving as well.

Bedtime for me too. I'm burned out trying to figure out a viable solution to bandwidth issues at work.

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[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

The "January Thaw" puzzled me when I first moved to MN, though it seemed to be a common knowledge thing in southern MN. In central WI I had noticed what I'd called a "False Spring" every Winter, but it always seemed to happen in February (the TV weatherfolk always said it was unseasonably/unusually warm - evidently overlooking something that seemed to happen every or almost every year). The "False Spring" would be about a week of above-freezing highs, sometimes even into the 40s F. It would then be followed a return to the nastier Winter weather, but it was nice break in it.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Old Farmer's Almanac usually predicts a January thaw. We almost always had them when I lived in Michigan. They last just long enough for most of the snow to disappear and turn the surface of the ground into very wet mud. Then, as you say, the cold weather returns and it all freezes into an unpleasantly bumpy and slippery mess, with footprints locked in as if cast in iron for another month or so.

[goldenstallion.livejournal.com]

Dear Rider.

Where I lived in Alaska, whether Anchorage or Palmer area, November was the coldest month, usually -40 the entire month but then in December it would warm up to zero and normally around Christmas a Chilkoot Wind would come through and the temp would go into the mid forties and melt and turn to freezing rain and ice (terrible you cannot walk to your mailbox or car etc.)

Every year around March it would sunny up and get into the fifties and melt almost all the snow and people would start their gardens and yard work, bring out the grills and think it is finally Spring and BLAM, twenty below and three feet of snow.

Don't mess with Mother Nature. Grin.

Been below zero for almost a month here but supposed to go above freezing this weekend (yaay in spite of freezing rain).

Impers

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I've noticed in recent years that Alaska often seems to have what would appear to be unseasonably warm weather at about the same time as we get our worst cold here. In Illinois, the longest periods of bitter cold seem to come in waves in January and February, though in the last three years we've usually had a lot of snow much earlier, in November and December. Of course, the temperature in Anchorage is probably quite a bit warmer than the interior or the arctic coast, too. London wrote of temperatures -50 and -60F, which must be really difficult to cope with. I think the coldest I've been through was a day or so at -35F or thereabouts. I remember Gary taking bubble soap outside and making soap bubbles that would freeze while floating in the air, and fall to the ground looking like a pile of torn rags.

[soanos.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear it is warming up for moment. Gives you a good chance to prepare for the later cold period. :)

Gary is finding school a bit hard? Well, it can happen if you take on too many courses at once. I am sure he'll be okay, but he just needs to sleep regularly and eat properly. :)

*hugs tight* Don't burn yourself out completely. You are a nice horsie and wouldn't want anything happen to you. :>

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm in no danger of burnout. After all, I'm not the one in school at the moment. :)

[cozycabbage.livejournal.com]

Make sure he gets to sleep on time! It's completely useless to work on homework too late at night, unless you actually are focussed and making headway.
Also, tell him that he had better not be doing homework in class, because that actually makes things harder.

For some reason, one course is almost impossible for me to do, while six courses are easy.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I can't make sure he does anything. He's a stubborn Polack who will insist on doing it his way. However, today he admits he hasn't been getting enough sleep.

[saythename.livejournal.com]

Old people should take class loads lightly.

I include myself in that.

Thaw? THAW!? I was at the beach today, I heard
the ice mock me!

*ice makes soft cracking noises, "We're solid,
come on, you know you want to walk out here
with that camera...*

I, politely, declined.

Janurary Thaw Indeed!

@.@

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Heh. He admits to being "old" though he's a couple years younger than I am. But he's in a hurry to finish this certification too, so getting him to take just one class was impossible. I think after this semester he will have learned better.