Yup!
Went for another ski trip yesterday. -5c
Snow is less than 1m most parts now, very compact.
We had a break on an island on the lake. Those view pics are with the same island centered. Another trip with pink unicorn mostly smiling, she gets cranky so fast, I mostly dragged her around using one of my ski poles.
Went for another ski trip yesterday. -5c
Snow is less than 1m most parts now, very compact.
We had a break on an island on the lake. Those view pics are with the same island centered. Another trip with pink unicorn mostly smiling, she gets cranky so fast, I mostly dragged her around using one of my ski poles.
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Sleet.
Rain and snow mixed - Wikipedia
The US has got it all wrong:
"This precipitation type is commonly known as sleet in most Commonwealth countries,[2] including Canada.[3] However, the United States National Weather Service uses the term sleet to refer to ice pellets.[4]"
Rain and snow mixed - Wikipedia
The US has got it all wrong:
"This precipitation type is commonly known as sleet in most Commonwealth countries,[2] including Canada.[3] However, the United States National Weather Service uses the term sleet to refer to ice pellets.[4]"
More cold weather coming. We have been below average for the past week, and expect possible snow on Saturday.
This isn't helping my gardening efforts.
George, it looks like it is coming your way.
This isn't helping my gardening efforts.
George, it looks like it is coming your way.
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Round one tomorrow night, 2 to 4 inches.......round two stretches from Minnesota to the Pacific Ocean and most of it is snow.
Yesterday we borrowed a play from PRR's playbook. It was very windy and temps ran from 40 to 45 degrees. The sky was mostly overcast but there scattered periods of blue sky. Throughout the day we got either a light wet snow that melted on skin contact, a pelting of tiny ice balls (1 to 3 mm) propelled by 20 MPH winds that stung when they hit you, and bounced several inches in the air when they struck the asphalt or a car, or clear blue sky. Often one, two or all three at the same time.
I know what we called "sleet" in New Jersey. We got a lot of that.
This was graupel, but NObody in the US (except weather geeks) uses that word. (My spell-checker is flagging it and suggests a disease instead.)
This was graupel, but NObody in the US (except weather geeks) uses that word. (My spell-checker is flagging it and suggests a disease instead.)
Hard driving snow all day here in coastal NH. Not much stuck, though, as both pavement and ground are well above freezing.
Was above freezing, then just as we wanted to go out the temp fell part-degree below freezing, the wind came up, and big clumps of snow. Built up 3 inches in not much over an hour. Then it rose a part degree above freezing and a very very light "rain" which is likely snow falling through thawed air. The technical term is "slop".
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Right now in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, USA it is 2 deg C (36 deg F). Yesterday it was 27 C (81 F). What a change!
We residents of the USA need to recognise that the US is the only nation still using degrees Fahrenheit widely. That's why I quoted temperatures in degrees Celsius.
We residents of the USA need to recognise that the US is the only nation still using degrees Fahrenheit widely. That's why I quoted temperatures in degrees Celsius.
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Thank you ;-)
That and those incredibly annoying US standard non metric machine screws. Miles instead of kilometers, inches, feet, yards, ounces, gallons.
That and those incredibly annoying US standard non metric machine screws. Miles instead of kilometers, inches, feet, yards, ounces, gallons.
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I agree with you 100 percent. I as a natural-born US citizen know the US customary units far better than most Americans so I really understand US customary units are really screwed up and cumbersome. For woodworking I ALWAYS use centimeters and millimeters instead of messing around with inches and fractions.
Everybody around the world has to learn English to participate on the Internet but Americans cannot trouble themselves to use metric units.
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Jeez it's crazy outside today - two days straight of freezing rain, just after I switched to summer tires no less. The roads aren't ploughed, parking lots are a quagmire of ice and water. My car is stuck at the bottom of my driveway, can't go forward or back. Never seen it like this in Waterloo before. Everything is either covered in ice or buried under icy water.
Snowmobiles driving on the road in front of the house again = nuts. No town snow plowing either. Glad I built the garage finally.
Cold, sleety then snowy then sleety. 1/4" of ice on the windshield as my wife left for the warmth of Southern CA with me and the kids enjoying the return of almost winter. I blame Kevinkr for this...he and his dang car...
We just had a cold front move in this week and its triggered my winter mode, last night I pulled the ceramic wall heater off the wall and cleaned it out in preperation and got the winter blanket out to be washed. I even put a 116w halogen incandescent in the roof of my bedroom so I don't get SAD. Last year it was pretty stressful being indoors all the time. I've got plenty of things to do on the car yet before winter comes.
Its cold enough here to be walking around in sweatpants which is really odd considering just a week ago I was wearing regular trousers and having the ac on all day...
According to the local observations we're getting as low as 17 degrees C (62.6F) overnight and as high as 33 deg C (91.4F) during the day since the start of this month.
Australia is in for its coldest winter on record say weather expert | Daily Mail Online
This doesn't bode well for my car this year if I don't get things done soon.
Its cold enough here to be walking around in sweatpants which is really odd considering just a week ago I was wearing regular trousers and having the ac on all day...
According to the local observations we're getting as low as 17 degrees C (62.6F) overnight and as high as 33 deg C (91.4F) during the day since the start of this month.
Australia is in for its coldest winter on record say weather expert | Daily Mail Online
This doesn't bode well for my car this year if I don't get things done soon.
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I don't know where is stranger, weatherwise, North America or Australia. I'm glad to be in the boring temperate UK, until the Gulf Stream gets turned off of course......