Tag: weather

Vacation week for the Wife didn’t get off to the best of starts, weather-wise. It started early this morning and has been relentless ever since. I’d forgotten about our little pool out back and, when I finally did remember to check, it had filled within an inch or so of the top. Seeing as it was continuing to rain, I had to setup a siphon to drain it back to normal levels. I’m pretty sure it’ll still get topped off.

Judging by the weather radar for our area, it doesn’t look like it’ll be stopping today.

…we’d need gills to breathe. Thursday can’t get here quick enough.

It was 92 by 11 this morning and the humidity makes it a little difficult to breathe. Luckily, the kids have swim lessons this afternoon, so we’ve got it handled.

That said, there’s something unseemly at the hype the heat is getting from local news outlets and TWC. Sure, it’s hot. But we’ve seen longer, hotter spells than this. For that matter, there are places where our current “plight” would be considered a relief.

For our part, we’ve got 1 room with air conditioning and- other than the dogs, who have permanent fur coats- none of us will be spending any time in it until tonight. I hate the heat, but I’m pretty sure I’ll survive this round of it. Just like the rounds before. Ditto for the Wife and kids.

Everyone needs to chill a little.

What “old adage” would that be? The one about “If you don’t like the weather, wait 5 minutes.” Last week at this time, we were going through a miserably hot and humid stretch of weather. Then, come the weekend the hi’s never got out of the 60’s. So far this week, we’ve been tickling the 70’s and today it’s supposed to be sunny but on the cooler side with highs in the low 70’s.

Bearing in mind I’ve only been up here in the NE for about 15 years, I can honestly say that this year’s weather patterns have been more schizophrenic than any other year. Anecdotally, I’m also under the impression that 7 day forecasts have been more incorrect than correct, with frequent changes even just a day or two out. Overall, my impression is that’s its been to the cooler and wetter side. But we still have July and August to come.

Just don’t ask what the weather will be tomorrow, ’cause I don’t think anyone really knows.

W. T. F.

Sorry for that, but it’s an accurate assessment of my reaction this morning to the revelation that the school had a delayed opening today. It’s just unbelievable.

The roads have no snow on them. None. There is barely enough to cover the dead grass in our yard. The temperature is above 32 degrees- that means there is no ice on the ground.

There was no reason to delay school this morning. Yet they did.

I actually called the superintendent a few moment ago. Luckily for them, I got the very pleasant and patient secretary who was kind enough to commisserate with me for a few moments, listened to my complaint and, in all likelihood, forgot the call a millisecond after I hung up.

If this is an April Fool’s joke, I’m not laughing.

We didn’t get as much snow as was predicted last night, but the cold weather has arrived and it’s supposes to stay this way until next week, when it will just return to normal. Basically, it’s more like late November than late March at this point.

I’m beginning to think it will be Winter right up until it’s Summer.

School was cancelled at 5AM this morning, so the kids are sitting watching cartoons at the moment. On the plus side, they helped empty the dishwasher, so I guess that earns them a little down time.

The predictions are for anywhere from 5″ to 10″ for us. Tomorrow the ice and sleet and freezing rain move in so I’d say tomorrow will be the worse of the two. The kids are guaranteed not to have school tomorrow as well.

Along those lines, I’m hearing more talk about forgoing the Winter vacation so that the school year isn’t extended until the end of June. One district has already played that card here in Connecticut. I may have to conduct some lessons for the kids myself today.

I wouldn’t want them to think staying home from school is just automatically fun, now would I?

The past 24 hours has basically conspired to keep me from getting to this. But fear not! I have a few minutes free time and without further ado, here are the afore promised snow pictures.

After the jump…

It was -9 degrees as of 7 o’clock this morning. But it’s been warming quickly. It’s already 14 degrees outside. I tried tossing boiling water into the air, but it still wasn’t cold enough to cause it all to turn into snow. Bummer.

When we went to bed last night around 10:30, the temp was measuring at 20 degrees or so. Pretty cool, but no great shakes. Especially for this Winter.

I woke up around 4 this morning to tend our fire. While doing so, I checked the temperature again and it was 14 degrees.

Hmmmph. So much for the “cold,” I thought. I mixed up the coals so they could burn down some more then laid down on the couch to get a little more sleep. I sleep on the couch in the mornings like that so as not to wake the Wife with repeated trips out of bed. Besides, the couch is actually pretty comfortable when the fire is going.

I woke up again to load up the fireplace with would around 5:30. Once again, for HA-HA’s I checked the temperature.

8 degrees. The temp had fallen 6 degree’s in one-and-a-half hours. The same amount it had fallen in the 6 hours from when I went to bed to when I got up the first time.

As I sit here typing this, it’s now down to 4 degrees. The Sun is up, as is everyone else in the house. Now I get to take the boy to hockey.

My fire tending duties weren’t for naught.