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…from taking a nap at the office, realized that it slept through most of the season, and still had to get at least some token snowfall in before spring hits.  Only problem is, there’s an ongoing warm weather project going on that has a hard deadline, so the snow has to be implemented during slack time.  At least, that’s my explanation for how inconstant the weather is this year.  We’re expecting snow here once, maybe twice in the next week.

Well, we do need the precipitation. And at least it’s not last year. They were closing the schools down here left and right in Winter 2016….

…and I cannot say that I mind it one bit.  Beautiful weather for the next week; gonna hit 70 again in the second half, which means that it will not be cold. I am not a fan of cold. I like shirtsleeves weather year-round, thanks.

So enjoy it while it lasts, of course.

Possibly real snow even down here in Maryland this weekend.  The Great Lakes are getting hammered right now, and that’s gonna come south.  Stay safe, stay warm, and stay off the roads if you can manage it.  Especially if this is gonna be your first real snowstorm of the season.

…Thank you, Phineas and Ferb.

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Here we go…

Yet ANOTHER #winter storm is on the horizon for this weekend, this time from #Rockies to #Midwest & #Northeast. #snow pic.twitter.com/kkfXtGvmB9

— The Weather Channel (@weatherchannel) February 24, 2015

…Wait a second.

WAIT A SECOND. Can it be?

YES! YES, IT IS! Freedom! Blessed, blessed freedom. It’ll all go somewhere else for a change. “Oh frabjous day! Calooh, callay! – he chortled in his joy.”

…like this:

And then you say “HEY, WOW, THAT’S GREAT!” I mean, shoot, at this rate on Sunday I’ll be ready to go hit the pool.  And I mean literally hit the pool: any water that’s still in there (I assume that the property managers drain it every year) isn’t going to melt in a single day of just-above-freezing.

Spring can’t come quickly enough, at this point.  Or, shoot, a runaway greenhouse effect. As many people have noted: the nice thing about greenhouses is that they’re hot*.

Moe Lane

*Also, wet.  Which is why we grow things in them.

I hope that you weren’t planning to travel:

A major storm centered on Christmas Eve will affect the Midwest and East with areas of strong winds, heavy snow, torrential rain and thunderstorms.

A storm forecast to develop over the lower Mississippi Valley on Tuesday, Dec. 23, is likely to strengthen dramatically, while it races northeastward toward the eastern Great Lakes on Christmas Eve.

The most far-reaching impact from the storm will be strong winds that develop and that have the potential to cause substantial flight delays along the Interstate-95 corridor, parts of the South and the Midwest. Turbulence could be an issue for some flights.

Joy.

…because if the weather is bad enough then they’ll delay school for two hours which means that the half-day kids will have no school and it’s been five days of two children with colds and my wife can go to work and escape tomorrow but if they delay school then I can’t and you get the idea.

No, you don’t.  At this point, I am looking forward to going to the MVA to get my driver’s license renewed.  Because I will get to see other people then.

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Plan accordingly.

Frigid temperatures gripped a wide swath of the U.S. Midwest and Northeast on Saturday, as the regions dug out from a deadly snow storm and braced for another blast of dangerous winter weather.

A new round of Arctic air will bring potentially record low temperatures in areas from Montana to Michigan starting this weekend, with the extremely cold air pushing eastward and blanketing the Northeast by early Tuesday, said Bob Oravec, a forecaster with the National Weather Service.

It’s going to be cold-cold, ladies and gentlemen: temperatures around zero in the North East, worse than that in the Midwest.  Canada is currently having an argument about whether it’s really as cold as Mars right now, but even the killjoys arguing ‘no’ are conceding that it’s bleeping cold out right now.  I’m serious: plan accordingly. Because it’s looking like it’s going to get nasty out.

Moe Lane

My sincere condolences for anybody stuck in this one:

A major storm with heavy rain, snow and high winds was hitting Thanksgiving travelers hard on Wednesday in the Northeast with potential ripple effects for flights elsewhere in the nation.

The timing of the storm could not come at a worst time with AAA projecting 43.4 million travelers during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

“The Wednesday before Thanksgiving will be the busiest single day of travel with 37 percent of travelers departing for trips Nov. 27,” AAA stated in a press release.

…and, judging from social media, about three of those travelers were happy about it.  No, not “three percent.”  Three.