Should We Talk About the Weather?

[womzilla]

Seems like a banal enough thing to break LJ silence over, but hey.

The winter precipitation which finally hit the New York metro area this month was as weird as all of the weather this winter has been. (To wit, "no snow, not even flurries, in December 2006--first time on record" and "70F in January/warmest January on record" with bursts of "weeks colder than Stalingrad", but we get that from time to time so it's not quite as weird.)

So, two weeks ago we finally got the frozen precipitation. In lower Westchester, we got an inch or two of snow covered by a thin but very annoying layer of ice--just enough to be somewhat nasty. In a reversal of the natural order of things, our street (a tertiary road for ice-removal purposes) was almost bone-dry following a couple of plowings, but the arterial road a block away was nasty slushy for a full day. What was really unexpected, though, was what I found when I went to Nassau County for my Friday night gaming group: The host's front yard, sidewalks, and streets were one solid sheet of ice. Driving wasn't a problem--Subaru all-wheel drive to the rescue!--but the simple task of walking to and from the car was epic. The cuts on my left hand from where I fell still haven't healed completely.

It then stayed cold for two weeks. Most of the snow and ice are gone from the paved parts of our neighborhood, but there's a thick crust of ice right at the base of our driveway; again, driving over it is fine, but walking to the car that we leave parked in the street is altogether too much of an adventure. And now They (the mysterious "They") are threatening another round of wintry mix for tomorrow evening; it's going to be fun.

How's by you?

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[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

How's the weather by me? Well... it's now Spring/Summer, but there was a (*ghasp*) frost back on the night of 13/14 January -- the first here in eight years -- and it looks as though the largest of the papaya plants (with half a dozen green fruit almost the size of footballs) and two Alstroemeria in pots aren't going to recover. But the Ipheon bulbs are blooming like the weeds they'd be if they weren't so cute, other Alstroemeria are starting to bloom, and the rose "Descanso Pillar" has buds that should be opening in a few days. Of course, this is Southern California (on what used to be the eastern edge of Los Angeles). And I'm trying to cope with two unintended litters of rats (I would have sworn that all three of those adolescents were females...).