Another Opinion Among Many

What to dress them in is the title of this post.  Its just a quick thought on the dilemma that many parents face each morning when they are getting their kids ready for school.  There’s supposed to be a nasty storm coming our way, which is over Ohio right now.  It won’t likely get here until tonight, but, in the mean time, the temperature is in the single digits and its raining.  So, its really not warm enough for their rain coats unless they’re layered with sweaters and pullovers, which they hate.  I’ve decided that they’re going to go with their winter coats because of the temperature, but they’ll be wet when they get home today.  It looks like mother nature is going to win again.

This storm is supposed to dump a lot of snow and freezing rain on us, and yet the forecast for our weather doesn’t seem to reflect that.  How can you have a severe weather warning that covers the entire province and yet the very same weather service is showing a reasonably decent weather forecast? I’m confused.  Weather Network, you have to be more clear today!

I doubt that this will last, but I woke up this morning to about 5 cm (2 inches) of snow on the ground.  Its is supposed to get above freezing today and the precipitation is supposed to go through the morning, so it’ll probably rain off.  But, this is a sure sign of things to come, I am certain.  I get the feeling that this winter won’t be starting off with 10-12% warmer weather, like last year did.  This time last year, the news became inundated with “global warming” scares.  I wonder what will be the fashion in the news this year.

I’m sure that if Caleb knew the words to the Alice Cooper song, he’d be singing them this afternoon.  School’s officially out for the summer today, so I doubt that the little guy will have a hard day at all.  They have already sent home his homework and workbooks that have gathered up for the year.  Interestingly, today may be a crappy weather day, though.  The report is for thunderstorms this afternoon.  Of course, that was the report for yesterday as well, so who knows! I was planning to be out and about in it, too, though.

Its getting darker out instead of lighter right now (6:30am), so maybe that storm will arrive sooner rather than later.  Who knows.

Well, its been raining outside for most of the day and still now in the evening.  It even got a tad cold and sort of snowed a bit.  That really sucks! The weather report is calling for a stop to it tomorrow and a bit of sun, but the single digit temperatures seem possible (that’s Celsius, not Fahrenheit).  I hope not, though.  Warm weather would really be welcome here.  It really would!

Wow! Its been a nice day today. The sun’s been out in full force and the temperature, even now at 5pm, is at 20°C, which is T-shirt weather where I come from. Abby and I are going to go for a walk. Cya.

Its always a toss up as to what kind of weather that we’ll get this time of year. Some winters, I’ve seen the blizzards blow through the whole month and in some years, spring has come early. But, most of the time, the weather in March is unpredictable. This year seems to be no different. We currently have a weather warning broadcasting for our area, stating that we could get 30mm of rain today and tomorrow. A few millimeters doesn’t seem like much, but if you think about that, 30 mm is 3 centimeters, or about an inch and a quarter. That’s a lot of water accumulated.

Today is the 15th. we’re 1/2 way through the month and its been both warm and very cold so far. We’ve had beautiful sunny days, where a light jacket was all that was required outside. We’ve had some frigid -20°C nights immediately after as well.  And, supposedly, we could get a snow/freezing rain/slush turning to rain storm tomorrow.  How lovely is that?

I hope that Mother Nature decides soon what season it is to be!

So, as warned on Macbros Place, we had a bit of a snowstorm on Friday. It wasn’t the biggest and baddest that we’ve had, but,with the wind, the snow was coming down in a near-horizontal path. The visibility was poor during snowfall. Driving was also dicey and better put off until later.

However, when it was all over, it was mild and clear. The snow accumulated throughout the night, to the degree that I had to push hard to get our door open (it was up about 20cm above the bottom of the door) on Saturday morning. So, today, Sunday, the temperature is still around the freezing mark. As far as I can tell, overnight it hasn’t dipped below freezing and its still around 0°C right now and destined to go up a few degrees. There’s a pretty big puddle at the end of our driveway that’s going to be really good for sliding on if the temperature goes down.

So, I’m getting mixed signals. Is it “in like a lion” or “in like a lamb?”