Snow- At Last

[poliphilo]

The light coming through our inadequately shaded windows last night was a brighter orange than usual. When I got up I found it was being reflected off snow.  At a rough estimate I'd say we've had five inches. Most of the rest of the country has- of course- been snowbound for days.

As someone I was listening to yesterday said, "it may not be global warming, but it's certainly climate change." 

Comments

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

The snow sounds delightful, but wish you had a more cozy vantage point from which to enjoy it. It's pouring rain in the darkness outside, as I type this. We only had our first freeze of the season late Sunday night, perhaps as much as a month later than normal. Very strange weather, we're having.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Our cold spell has come a month early. It's most unusual for us to have significant snowfalls ahead of Christmas.

[veronica-milvus.livejournal.com]

Well, as it is the earliest snow for 17 years, then I suppose it is "climate change back to what it used to be". I'm not spooked yet. Although I don't remember this in 1993 - but I was living on the south coast then and perhaps there wasn't any right next to the sea.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's not just early snow, but very heavy snow. I forget what it was like in '93 but I doubt if it was anything like this.

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

We seldom have snow this early. There have been significant snowfalls before Christmas, around here, but they are somewhat rare. I remember going to West Virginia, to cut a Christmas tree, and having to drag a ten footer through drifts above my knees, with temperatures around 20 or so. Great for holiday atmosphere, but more charming in retrospect than it was at the time.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

There's no sign of this weather lightening up. It's snowing as I write. The weather girl has promised us winds from Russia.

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

Brrrr. Do stay warm.