<p>Snowing here at least since about 5 a.m., when the five-year-old got up to go to the bathroom, noticed it was snowing out, and came BOUNDING into our room to tell us. . . . So, um, yeah - I’ve been up since about 5, too! </p>
<p>I see from weather.com that it’s snowing on D at school, too, which is nice. (Although they definitely won’t get up at 5 for it, college kids have almost as much fun in the snow as kindergarteners. At least, the ones where snow isn’t an everyday thing.)</p>
<p>LIMOM and Harriet,
I am in your general neck of the woods, and I just brought my snow shovels up from the basement because I NEED TO USE THEM! It is 19 degrees here with a windchill of 12. I am looking at the pile of leaves in front of my house,not yet picked up by the town, now snow-covered. The gardening crew hasn’t stopped by since mid-November and there are leaves covering my yard, now covered by snow. And why is it when snow first arrives that there are stories on the news showing people at Home Depot buying snow shovels. Do people have disposable snow shovels? Don’t they save them from year to year?</p>
<p>The snow shovels in the garage are sort of like the socks in the washing machine. </p>
<p>The garage eats the snow shovels over the summer. Or, perhaps the teenage boys take them and use them to make dirt bike jumps and they get lost in the woods. Or someone else borrowed the snow shovel to clean the basement and it got lost. Or the last snow of the previous season was so horrific that the snow shovels died a horrid death in the process of removing the snow. Or if there wasn’t a lot of snow in the previous season, the garage had two years to make the snow shovels disappear.</p>
<p>OK, thanks, those are plausible explanations. I’ve always wondered about this.
;)</p>
<p>It’s snowing here now in NW Connecticut. I enjoy it – don’t think I could live in a place without snow in the winter. My village’s Christmas tree lighting ceremony was yesterday, complete with hot chocolate and caroling.</p>
<p>I think the people decided to move to sunny California and sell thier snow shovels in a garage sale…and then the new people who bought their houses realize they need one right about now.</p>
<p>Be careful driving everyone…it looks like there will be a few hours of freezing rain in the Allentown area. I am freaking out about it, as it’s my Cali D’s first winter driving experience. I hope she understand not to drive when it’s icey.</p>
<p>I’m also in NW CT and it’s not snowing a flake. There were a few (very few) flurries this morning. The weather folks are having a great time…this is their first winter weather event. You would think it was a major blizzard. I’ll just get up tomorrow morning and look out the window. It will be interesting to see what’s there.</p>
<p>I agree the weather folks are having a lot of fun.
And, thank you very much, no one is out shopping today.
Our weather report here (SW CT, central Fairfield County CT) essentially says about an inch of flurries, and then it’s going to warm up and ice and be nasty, and then it’s all going to wash away in 40 degree rain by morning. And then it’s going to get windy and the power’s going to go out!</p>
<p>^As a fellow nutmegger, I laughed when I read CNP55’s comment only because it’s so true. The weather here is nothing if not changeable. On the other hand, I’d rather be here than in Kansas, where my daughter attends college – the summer thunderstorms there are downright scary (not to mention the tornadoes that they sometimes spawn).</p>
<p>It’s 81 degrees here in Louisiana…but with our weather who knows what’s going to be next. In 5 minutes it could rain, hail, or get even hotter. I’m SO glad I already got my allergy/cold/flu thing out of the way</p>
<p>10 inches of snow last night at my house 30 miles east of Seattle in the foothills. To be followed by heavy rain and high winds. I better not lose power tonight–my fave tv night.</p>
<p>We live about 45 minutes southwest of NYC. We had about an inch of wet snow on the ground and roads this morning.
The forecast is:</p>
<p>Sunday night: A mix of wintry precipitation this evening. Then periods of rain expected overnight. Low 28F. Winds SSE at 10 to 15 mph.
Monday: Windy. Showers early with clearing later in the day. High 44F. Winds W at 20 to 30 mph. Chance of rain 60%. Winds could occasionally gust over 40 mph.</p>
<p>It’s pretty cold out there!</p>
<p>1530 hrs, Sunday. Normal Dec weather, mid Willamette Valley, @600 ft elev, wet, windy and more wet. Dear friend/cpa revealed that she still had kiwi on the vine, so trek we went for 75#. In return we gave her 15# of persimmons, picked.</p>
<p>great, it was 75 today and windy. It is supposed to cool down into the upper 60s and turn clear. No rain though, and we need it. Lower Al</p>
<p>Ft Lauderdale… highs about 83 and pretty humid. Lows around 73. It sucks.</p>
<p>Snowing here in Syracuse, but that is nothing new. First measurable snowfall here this year came way back on 11/15, got a few inches then!</p>
<p>Normal weather for Baltimore…30 something degrees, just got a “wintry mix” this past weekend. No snow yet.</p>
<p>Six new inches here already. I’m already tired of shovelling.</p>
<p>Pacific Northwest is being pounded by rain as we speak. Flooding, flooding, and more flooding on the way. Mudslides add diversity to our water problems. Outside temperature - 57 degrees (was below freezing on Friday).</p>
<p>cuse0507 - just IMed with daughter… she says it’s blizzarding there now, and it’s on top of ice. Is it? Or is this just another slight overexaggeration to get some sympathy from me?</p>