Snow! Who'd a Thunk it?
 

Granted I live in the mountains, just under 3000 ft, but I dont usually get snow here until after the first of January..........but its here, and we have had temps in the 20's (Howzabout THAT Deanna, we did too!) when it was clear, and now snow.......my daughter lives 1000ft higher than I do, I cant get her on the phone, I hope she's ok......

Up in Washington east of Seattle theyve really been getting pounded.

I must be getting the tail end of that....

Well at least its not like 2 feet. I've heard that snow can come down in that part of the country very quickly.

:eek: Wow! That's amazing...and I'm sure your daughter is fine..sometimes it's hard to get phone service in weather like that :nod:

I just remember being amazed that you were getting temps like that and then we did too.........my daughter better call me!

I know haha...that's what you get! :p And actually I don't get temps like that - the really low temps (teens and 20s) are in the mountains...though there have been some nights around here that it's dipped into the 20s.

Is your son all excited with the snow??

yeah, but we're watching Hidalgo so he has his pistols out pretending to be a cowboy right now......

Not fair. All we have is ugly, nasty, dreary rain.

It better not friggin' flood again this year.
I had enough of that sh*t last year.

I heard its gonna be a bad winter........and if this early snow is any indication, you better get prepared........:sorry:

lol...sounds like fun!

How much snow did you get?

so far its just covering the ground, maybe an inch, it only started sticking an hour or so ago so the day is still young snow-speak.....the real fun will begin tomorrow when I have to go to work! thank GAWD I have a 4wheel drive. (this is why I own an SUV)

I have a confession to make....I have never seen snow:o

and I have never seen a Hurricane. not sure I'd want to either :o

Just be careful - as they used to tell me in Rochester - 4 wheel drive will get you going - but it won't stop or not skid any more than other cars :o Don't know how used to driving in snow you are - but if a gal from New Mexico can do it - so can you :D

I was going to say "anyone can" but that is so apparently not true as witnessed during the first snow we had here.

I started out with a Maverick and chains. I know enuff to go slow. and not get caught in other people's tracks!! that would be a disaster! every winter, the sides of all the bad roads are littered with testosterone laden yahoos' big monster 4x4's. I think it is so funny.......

Great, just great. At least the creek behind my house always floods on the other side. The parking lot at my office, however, was submerged in about two feet of water last winter.

Go figure. It's been in the high 50's/low 60's & partly sunny here for about a week. No snow since that bad October storm either. Strange. :shrug:

Here today it's one of those totally miserable days. The kind with the low hanging clouds and about 35 degrees and a light rain.

You own an SUV? I'll be confiscating your Lefty Card now!

We have had a very mild Nov here in the Northeast! Today in Boston it is 60! :eek:

Oh she pm's me all the time with her Repuclican propaganda. :lol:

Well the same system that dumped snow in CA is moving our way and joining up with some Arctic air to produce a major winter storm. Great.

Actually I won't get the brunt, that'll still be the mountains, though it's icy and cold today...highs in the 20s....they may have climbed to the 30s but it's not looking like it...I want to be at home by my fire and tree...but alas I have to be at work...

Well...
 

What you'll miss is what we'll be getting here in Oklahoma.

It is expected to be 70 on Wednesday afternoon, then the bottom falls out. The temps will plunge down into the 30's Wednesday evening, then the rain will turn into ice (I hate ice storms, this will be the 4th one in 4 years-The worse was the one that knocked our electricity out for 3 days in Jan.2002...Hell, Just today I noticed the tops of our trees suffered from the 60MPH winds we had last week, so I guess I'll suck it up and hope my back doesnt go out as I remove those branches tomorrow) and by Thursday morning the ice will turn to snow.

The wind chill for Thursday will be at 0 Farhenheit, with the high's being in the mid 20's with blowing snow (Which will be fun since we're scheduled to go shopping on Thursday-I can drive in any weather condition, However people in this area cannot drive even when it is 90+ outside)

Just think, it isnt even nowhere the coldest time of the year for this area!

shhhhhh!

you'll blow my cover! :lol:

Im about as tree hugging, eco-minded as you can get but when the only thing that will get me to work and back during winter is a 4wheel drive, you betcha Im owning one! (when I say SUV, Im talking the ORIGINAL SUV, the JEEP--not them behemoths that make ya sick with their conspicuous consumption.....)

ps: the snow ended up turning into rain and washed all the snow away. We had snow again today btw, this is so strange...

I was thinking the same thing when I saw the snow....we dont usually get it this early....I bet we ARE in for a bad winter.......

We actually got a trace of snow here in the city... which is rare. You only have to go 10 miles out of the city and there's lots of snow... up to two feet in some areas. It only takes an inch of snow here to bring everything to a standstill... we're not used to it.

Really? I would have thought you'd have tons of it all the time? I always think of the upper tier of States (you know, the ones that border Canada) as getting tons of snow....:shrug:

We are also having the strangest weather on this side of the ocean. We would normally be preparing for winter now with temperatures in the low 40's at best, and a lot of wind and rain. Instead, we are still experiencing the aftermath of a warm fall, with sunny weather and temperatures going into the 60's. :eek: It's quite bizarre, but this is the second year in a row this is happening now. Our summer was unusually hot also, with a 3 week heatwave. They used to last not longer than 3 days.

I'm beginning to think Al Gore made a very good point. :shocked:

From your post to Monkey Boy's ears. What a maroon, insisting there's no such thing as global warming :mad:

No, Seattle is right on the water so it's normally pretty mild here... similar to San Francisco. The eastern part of the state, on the other side of the Cascade range, is a different story... very hot in the summer and very cold and snowy in the winter.

I'm waiting for the bottom to fall out here. It's been in the 60's, which is unheard of in November. Thursday/Friday it's supposed to plummit down to the 30's and snow. I just hope it snows enough to sled in!

30's one day & upper 60's the next:confused: we had freezing rain all-night & finally our 1st snow is set to arrive tomorrow~ yukky...i hate snow:distress: ~

I like it the first time or two, and on Christmas. Then I'm sick of it.

I think its cool, but I dont get it as much as some of you folks, certainly not enough to get sick of it...weird thing is, just the day before the first snow, we had balmy temps, blue sunny skies, didnt see it coming :shrug:

Wished it would snow...
 

here on Christmas, it hasnt happened since 1980 (Or was it 1988)


I live in the state with the most extreme weather climate (Had a tornado warning yesterday matter-of-fact), That's probably why the National Weather Service is based in Norman.

Tomorrow's 50 degree temp drop within a 12 hour period is typical for this time of the year (The high temp will be in the low/mid 70's on Wednesday afternoon with moderate chance of thunderstorms, the high temp on Thursday morning will be around 27 F with high chance of sleet/ice/snow)

As the saying goes for Oklahoma weather: "If you dont like the weather...Wait"

They say that in Indiana, too, but I think it applies more in Oklahoma!