weatherpruf

"and the mornin sun is shinin like a red rubber ball..." ah, the 60s.....i guess they were on acid when they wrote the song....

we had it a few summers back, worse....i didn't leave the house for days.

hope it clears before the entire world sees messi and yamal struggling to breathe......of course messi doesn't do much running anyway.....

my neighbors too....college graduation. they got most of the day in though, and the storm was short. but it blew the tents all over.

this sucks. my garden is struggling a bit with the cold following the brutal heat. as for saltwater fishing. forget it. water is frigid even when you can manage a rare calm day. today for my walk i broke out the lined hiking pants again.

its just that the big events were separated by a month; if we'd had some more 3-6 deals in between it would have seemed like a blockbuster. but i'd take this any time. i like a real winter, and a real spring...today does not feel like spring, and neither does 80 degrees, but we take it as it comes. what warmth we have had hasn't lasted long enough to warm the bays and rivers much, and now we are getting that nasty cold rain...and that wind the other night i could do without.

in all my years its been rare for great winters back to back....94? followed by a ratter. 96? 5 years of ratters.....2001? followed by a ratter....sometimes like 2006 or 16 you get a ku in an otherwise dismal year....2021...years of crumbs until now....

wait til we hit low 70's next winter in the el nino that's coming; better keep this past winter in mind, cause we are almost sure to get a ratter next year with warmth.

i'm still wearing flannels....but what a gorgeous site on the navesink river today, watching from the hospital visiting a friend....in the 80's we would have been out on that river catching winter flounder. by the bucket load. now you can keep two, if you can find any. which you can't.

i left one snow shovel out. put the rest in storage. much as i love the snow, this is the best kind of weather to have. 65-70 is the sweet spot. warmer, i get uncomfortable.

they were lame. honestly. and one was a car topper. i did get an early dismissal and snow day out of them though.

big snow storms rarely produce more than 10 inches in march in nyc. source; mitchell volk. so a big storm for us in march is well, anything over a few inches. sometimes, i've seen a few inches accumulate on grass and cartops, but not on the street, like in march 2013.

we can hope....april showers and all....we can use the rain though.

it was in my 30's after 94 that i got my first snowblower....i was diagnosed in 1996 after a viral illness caught teaching summer school the summer before; it was hell; but even the snow blower is heavy and causes me issues, plus i still have to shovel areas between the cars and clean out the back porch for the dogs. but its ok, we love it. gotta pace myself, 63 years old.....it goes fast. and usually, i'm on the fringe with a lot of storms, but got hit with them this year. every year is different.

i think they were bigger than most realize; that sleet infusion in the first storm was rather unusual and with the cold temps that followed, we were digging or for weeks; just when you started to see real erosion, here comes the 15-20 inches and more to replenish the pack; of course we knew the second one would not stick around, but what an odd winter; a month or so of nothing followed by a genuine ku...and it wasn't 3 feet so yawn....lol. it was 3 feet in providence though....my arms are still recovering and that's no joke i have fibromyalgia, have had it for 30 years; i do not recover quickly from that kind of shoveling....