It snowed here Friday night and it has been raining since at the lower elevations. This has probably put an end to our fire season for this year, locally, though fires continue to burn in the northern part of the state.
One community near here in the mountains has suffered two evacuation orders due to fire and yesterday faced another order for flash flooding. The cold saved it, not enough rain fell on the snow to melt all of it and make a dangerous flood. This morning, the white peaks appear and disappear in the clouds that are still dropping snow up where we really need it.
And it's still raining down here at 2900 ft (~900m) where I live. The cold has frozen out my allergies for the moment so my sinuses get a rest.
Autumn has arrived and winter has announced its approach. I'm smiling because I'm still here to enjoy it. :)
Hugs,
Joyce
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We had our first snowfall......
Last Thursday, but today it will hit 70 degrees. I am in upstate NY, specifically Saratoga County (which is just north of Albany, about midway between NYC and Montreal for those of you wondering) and fall has been here for some time now. But it looks like Indian Summer for us now.
Later this week the temps will drop some with rain on Wednesday.
We were planned to be sailing off the coast of Florida this week, but this is the third vacation we have had to cancel this year due to Covid travel restrictions. The required quarantine upon return is not worth the effort to travel right now - if I’m going to be stuck staying home for a week or more, I might as well just not travel. So it looks like we will spend some time up around Lake Placid or Vermont this week instead.
Glad to hear your weather has broken the fire problem somewhat, and that you are feeling good. Seeing the sun rise another day is always a good thing.
D. Eden
Dum Vivimus, Vivamus
We had our first snow a
We had our first snow a couple of weeks ago, with about 4 inches on the ground. It's all melted off now, and I've had to open my back sliding doors a couple of times.
All my roses and lilies are now gone for the winter.
Hugs!
Rosemary
we had a massive snowfall
just about buried us!
Snoo everywhere!
We too got our first taste of winter, waking up to a nice blanket of white. Two inches here in the valley after the Sierra took most of it (probably a foot or so), which is just the way I like it. Cold day but sunny enough that it's melting off already and pretty slick when I took the trash out (barefoot since it's only 90 seconds to the trashcan + back, and it provides excellent traction, and I'd rather not get my ratty sneakers wet for such a short trip...) Here's to a decent snowpack this year and plenty of water for 2021.
~hugs, Veronica
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What Shmoo?
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ad/64/1c/ad641c1b97643d2be245...
What borders on pure insanity?
Canada and Mexico.
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No Snow
No snow here in the PNW, but we've had several days with heavy frost on the ground. This last summer, we experienced a fire season much like we are used to hearing about in California. Several towns were burned to the ground by fires roaring through them at miles per hour. Many town where we wouldn't expect to see it evacuated due to threat of fire.
Locally, we had air quality issues due to fires East and South of us. In one case wind out of the East pushed the smoke from Eastern Oregon over us and out to sea. That didn't bother the air quality to badly, but then the winds changed and brought the smoke back on shore. This time it wasn't warm and hugged the ground, pooling in the valleys. Air quality was really bad.
Finally at the beginning of September the weather changed and one by one the fires were brought under control. We haven't had an active fire for over a month, but on at the end of September did we get enough rain so we could do our backyard burning. (We have no yard debris pick up in my small town) But by the time it was declared safe, my debris pile was wet and with only a few dry days here and there, it's been near impossible to burn. I may be until next spring catching up.
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Ich bin eine Mann
It's snowing in my corner of
It's snowing in my corner of the Pacific Northwest now, Patricia. It hadn't started when I posted my previous comment, but around me it had, unbeknownst to me. Lol.
I'm a bit further inland than you, however.
Hugs!
Rosemary
It's snowing here right now..
It's snowing here right now... I almost washed my car yesterday. I'm glad I put it off.
Don't mind the snow unless I have to drive or be out in it. I'm hoping it clears up by tomorrow.
Have delightfully devious day,
Down Here
Any time it snows in Houston, it's an occasion for Jubilee. In 2004, I was home with family in (upstate) New York. Consequently, I missed the 2004 Christmas Eve Snowstorm and the resulting unprecedented White Christmas in Houston. The snowstorm shattered records, in some cases by orders of magnitude.
Where I was, there wasn't any snow.
-- Daphne Xu (a page of contents)
Back in 1997 or 1998, my
Back in 1997 or 1998, my sister and I were driving our trucks from Loredo to Houston. We had dropped loads of aluminum in Loredo to be taken into Mexico and were running to Houston for new loads, and it snowed. We skated up to Houston with empty flatbeds -- about 30,000 lbs each, combined tractor and trailers.
I had NO IDEA how many bridges there were in Texas crossing arroyos. Every time we would get to a bridge, the cars who had been travelling in the 60 and 70 MPH range, would slam on their brakes to cross the bridges at 30 MPH. It is not fun trying to slow down a flatbed with 6 or 7000 lbs on its rear axles when you have 8 tires to brake it. It likes to keep going, which is usually sideways around the tractor.
I do understand the Jubilee when it snows, though. Until about 15 years ago, I lived in North Idaho, where I had snow every Christmas. Now, living in Spokane, I don't usually have snow on Christmas, and I miss it.
Hugs!
Rosemary
While not as extraordinary as snow in Houston
Paris in a fully fledged snowstorm was interesting. Parisian drivers aren't exactly skilled in driving in snow.
I'm not a great fan of snow and cold so I was less then delighted when abundant snow fell in Vilnius in September and stayed for a couple of weeks.
Where I'm now: No snow and almost 290 K
Kelvins?
Do they report the temperature in Kelvins where you live? That's a first I heard. About 60oF then? Sounds like an ideal temperature, or maybe a little cool.
Are European drivers properly trained? I've heard of crazy driving over there.
-- Daphne Xu (a page of contents)
Fire Season Over
Happy for you and all those around you who received a blessing of snow and rain and an end to the fires which have been burning up the west coast for months.
Hugs
Barb
Life is a gift, treasure it.
Oklahoma born and raised cowgirl
Shmoo? Snoo?
Shmoo! I remember them. They were a lovable creature from a wonderful daily and Sunday comic ‘Li’l Abner’. I grew up with that strip and I miss it.
Snoo?
Knock, knock
Who’s there?
Snoo!
Snoo, who?
Nothing’s snoo with me? What’s snoo with you?
Sorry, l couldn’t resist that but it looks like we are being told ‘what’s snoo with you’ and snow. I would love to spend Christmas and New Year’s day somewhere that the snow is deep and getting around is done in a one horse open sleigh.
Don't let someone else talk you out of your dreams. How can we have dreams come true, if we have no dreams?
Katrina Gayle "Stormy" Storm
Dreams and Nightmares
"Don't let someone else talk you out of your dreams. How can we have dreams come true, if we have no dreams?"
When our dreams are anxiety dreams and nightmares, we wouldn't want them to come true.
-- Daphne Xu (a page of contents)
i spent
a couple of recent Christmas's in Austria complete with snow, sleighs rides and all the trimmings. Now don't get me wrong, it was all very nice but it was depressing having to return to the real world afterwards!
Madeline Anafrid Bell
White stuff
Here in the English Midlands, we'll be lucky to get a couple of inches in January / February, which will last barely a week before disappearing. Black ice is the more frequent hazard - rainfall that hits a sub-zero (°C!) ground and freezes clear, so it's deadly but invisible.
We may sing Bing's song and dream of a white Christmas, but for those of us not living on higher ground, it's more likely to be a wet Christmas.
But hopefully in California, the rain's intense enough to stop the fires, but not intense enough to cause widespread flash flooding.
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!