Gang Aft Agley

Still holding steady with a forecast of flurries!

And the rain and snow continues. I went to a parents meeting at the school tonight, while there we saw a flash of lightning, and the rumble of thunder. That in itself was odd, as we don’t often get thundershowers, even in the summer time, but for it to happen in January was really odd.

After the meeting I walked out to the car to find the windows coated in a thick pile of slush. Looks like the kids will have a 2 hour delay in the morning. Best not to tell them or they want to sleep in, and have the ritual out of bed struggle at the later time. It’s definitely easier to get them up at the normal time, expressing wonder at the weather and let them get all excited, about the possibility of a snow day.

I realize I keep writing about the snow, and in any other location we have lived, a few inches on the ground wouldn’t be anything of interest, but here it’s so far out of the usual weather that I find myself compelled to comment on it.

We didn’t see any snow for the first two winters we were here, with just a day or 2 last year and then this year we have had snow on 3 or 4 days this last month.

As you can see we had a bit of unusual weather. Last nights news showed that we had received 5 inches of snow yesterday. It was incredible to watch as it came down in the largest flakes I have ever seen, easily the size of half dollars. I did a little research and we didn’t break any records, back in 1943 we had 6.5 inches of snow in one day, as well as several 5.5 inch days sprinkled in the last 70 years.

Needless to say the kids are home today, they don’t have the equipment to get the hills cleaned up quickly enough. Today’s forecast includes more snow, followed by 2 days of rain, with nighttime temperatures above freezing. Hopefully the kids can go back to school tomorrow.

P.S. The above photo was taken with the new camera!

We just had a week of cold weather, where the morning temperatures where into the 20’s and the highs just barely hitting 40 if we were lucky. This next week looks a little better, the highs move up a few degrees, but the lows move up above freezing.

We have definitely started a countdown to when we see warmer temperatures.

The same pass, now with winter weather, I drove over a couple months ago.