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Chance of SNOW!!!Being a total wuss about driving in the snow doesn’t mean I don’t still get excited to see it. “Our next system approaches from the southwest on Sunday. Expect some early sun Sunday followed by increased clouds and some showers late. Rain lingers into Monday with cloudy skies and cooler temperatures in the low to mid 50s. Into Thanksgiving week it appears the pattern will be calm with partly sunny skies and highs near 60 through the big travel day. An arctic blast could slide into town by Turkey Day with some cold gusty winds and the chance for mountain snow. We will keep you posted. Have a great weekend.” So, see, some of everything for everybody!  7 comments to Chance of SNOW!!! |
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Lucky you! I’m just hoping we have a foot or two around my place for a change
Yeah, you kind of have to go with the theory of a lot or none. Anywhere inbetween and it’s just too much “panic in the streets”.
I was reading the local page for AccuWeather at WOKV a little while ago. My Chief (retired) and I got a laugh…tomorrow’s potential for Heavy Snow is “minimal.” Same for ice. Quite a relief, I must say. ;-D
Minimal?? That just doesn’t sound good. For here that means they’re already at the grocery buying the TP, huge bags of Doritos, microwave popcorn, and milk. (I don’t see mass quantities of cereal — but there’s always milk.)
Then a quick stop at the liquor store for beer and you go home. And wait.
School was already cancelled for the next day and the Fed. Gov. will probably be 2 hours late, liberal leave.
Yeah, we get a little bit hysterical. Just a bit!!
Something to be said for the Mojave Desert, ya know.
Once when I was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, it snowed in the Tidewater. It was on a weekend and a bunch of us who were from the Mountain West went and got us some beer and parked in a shopping center parking lot next to an important intersection. I must say that it was interesting and downright comical. There was only about 2-3 inches but it might as well have been a foot of ice. The body shops were doing a land office business after that one. A Norfolk Police Officer did ask us what we were doing. He was a bit surprised at the response of enjoying the show. Then he realized that we were all from places that had hard winters and understood.
I was in the San Joaquin Valley when it snowed at Hanford and Visalia in January of 1986. That was a real treat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The ONLY place I wanna see snow these days is on my teevee and not in the WX forecast, either. And mebbe in the pages of NatGeo, too. That said, we do get a bit of it every winter here on The High Plains of NM… just enough to remind me why I don’t like it, which is a good “reality check.”
I hear ya bout watching the locals in warm climes, Glenn. I witnessed snow in Biloxi, MS (Keesler AFB) once upon a time and it was EXACTLY as you described Norfolk. Worse, mebbe.
I was in Roswell in January of 1998 doing three turns on a ballast train. It was just after the area had a winter storm of monumental proportions. The damage estimates were in the vicinity of 10 million dollars in Roswell and Chavez County alone. Two years ago just after Thanksgiving, I was at Amboy out on old 66 between Ludlow and Needles there was snow falling on the mountaintops. At my elevation it was just cold rain. It does snow in the desert!