Yep. April Snow Showers

I’m dreaming of a white… uh, April shower?

I’m pretty sure it wasn’t snowing at this time last year…

It was a potentially dark and stormy morning

Snow in the forecast for the next couple days…

Oh dear

Bought a kiddie pool for the puppy. She thinks it’s pretty entertaining. Of course, now it’s supposed to get cold and snowy in the next couple days…

Alas, spring, we hardly knew you

That’s a “1 – 2 inches of snow during the day” 80%, too, not your standard “Nature’s Dandruff” 80%.  Looks like no apricots or cherries this year…

When does 20% equal 100%?

Last night, apparently.

You know what?

It really says something about the lovely, just lovely weather you’ve been having when your thermometer is now all the way up to 22 degrees, so you aren’t wearing a coat when you go outside, or running your heater in your truck on the way to work in the morning.

And that something really isn’t very nice.

I can see the mountains!

Considering that I haven’t seen those mountains for a week, and they’re only a few miles from my house, I guess I am happy with the immense mud puddles as long as it means the inversion is knocked down, if only for a couple days…

A poem

It is winter.
Days turn to weeks of snow, smog, and cold.
Sub-zero days give way to sudden rain,
the snow turns to mud.
Would you go and fish the dog out of the yard?

(apologies to Red Green)

Starting to feel like this

Phoning it in

I think the weather geeks are taking the week off, or got froze out of their office.  This just shows no imagination on their part.  Frankly, I don’t think it would hurt them to throw in one or two “Tropical Vacation” days just to mix things up…

Okay, then

According to the weather service, it’s a good 20 degrees warmer in Fairbanks, Alaska, than it is here in Happy Valley, Colorado.

-9° F

Negative nine this morning, or so the weather service says. A might nippy, you could say. The cat’s water was frozen even though it was on it’s new, fancier, much warmer, heating pad that I bought last week since this seems to be par for the course this winter.

Sorry if it seems that all I talk about lately is the weather–but when the temperatures keep doing things like that it sort of dominates your mind…

Well, time to get ready to go to work and sit in an unheated building all day long…

Thought for the morning

You know something’s wrong when you are driving to work in the morning and your truck thermometer says “13 degrees” and you think to your self–”Whoa, that’s pretty warm!”

Supposed to get up to 40 today! And then it’s supposed to be blowing snow tomorrow, and back into the negatives…

Algor, save me now!