Thursday...

[cairistiona]

"Wait a minute... an ice storm is coming? But it was 72F yesterday!"

Our temps this morning dropped 20 degrees in less than 30 minutes this morning as the cold front barreled through. Yesterday's high was indeed 72 and balmy... t-shirt weather that continued into the night where even at 2 am it was still in the 60s (nothing like having to dig out the summer pajamas in January). I had windows wide open in every room of the house. But it's all down hill now. *sobs*

Today will be okay, but tonight and all day tomorrow into Saturday, we'll be getting freezing rain and ice. They *say* our area will "only" get about a quarter- to a half-inch accumulation of ice, which isn't enough to bring down trees or power lines, but with these things, you never know. If I disappear for any length of time, chances are it's because we lost power and I don't want to run the computer on the generator (power surges abound with those and it's not the best for electronics even with surge protectors).

Sometimes memes are really on the nose....

As a non-superstitious person, I'm not saying that I'm nervous, but this might try the resolve of the most non-superstitiously-minded...

Comments

[mrowe.livejournal.com]

Oh dea...wait what, why are we having the same weather ???!?? (apart from the 70s Fahrenheit surge)

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

I've noticed a lot times we'll have very similar weather to both your area and England. I do think part of the reason is that the jet stream carries the weather from here up north to your region, and then it also carries Siberian weather down to our region. Depending on how quickly it all moves, I guess it can really make for meteorological coincidence??

[mrowe.livejournal.com]

It's an interesting phenomenon, though probably little more than coincidence *g*

On a side note, if I hadn't known a storm was coming, I could have read the imminent weather change from the cats' behaviour - Pixel's got a case of the weather jitters LOL

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

My cats don't seem to have much weather-forecasting talent unless a severe thunderstorm is coming. Then Pip wants outside (she's not known for her common sense). Pepper sleeps through pretty much everything.

[engarian.livejournal.com]

This year it appears that winter has finally returned to the Frozen Northlands, after two years of mild weather that made all of our "snowbirds" wonder why they had gone south to Arizona. This year the old folks are chortling as we wrap yet another scarf around our necks and pile on the sweaters under our outerwear.

- Erulisse (one L)
ice storms are no fun. I hope you escape the worst of that.

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

I've got my fingers crossed the worst of it doesn't hit us, too. Of course, that means it hits someone else, so I'll vainly hope that the forecasters are wrong. Unlikely in this day and age of far better forecasting accuracy, but a girl can hope!

[shirebound]

Oh gosh, that Missouri toast is a hoot. Sorry to hear that it's so true! *shivers*

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sadly, that old saw about "it's funny because it's true" 100% applies in this case!

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

Twenty degrees in thirty minutes? Yipes!! Batten down the hatches.

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

Sadly that kind of temperature drop is par for the course around here. Sometimes the cold fronts scream in so fast they call them "blue northers".... though this one wasn't one of those. Still quite a shock compared with yesterday at this same time!

[mikononyte.livejournal.com]

Oops yes, sorry, that's the crap from out here last week. :(

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

Normally I'd thank you for your generosity but, well... *g*

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Your state does weather in a very big way!

I hope you can stay indoors and watch the worst of it through the windows.

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, we don't do things by halves here, not when it comes to severe weather. :P

I definitely intend to stay indoors except for those times when Domino *has* to do his business. I have rubber studded ice gripper things to slip over my shoes for then. But I have all my groceries in and no reason to be out for anything else, unless the school superintendent turns idiot and fails to cancel school tomorrow, which I can't imagine he'd do unless he fell and hit his head...

[bluegerl.livejournal.com]

And here we are on Friday 13th (my lucky day) and the sun is shining, the wind has gone elsewhere, and it may be hell on wheels in the Jura Mountains in the East of France, but here, it's just wonderfully SPRING!

Had the hurricane yesterday, but we are promised a DREADFUL cold lump coming in from Scandinavia on Sunday Evening.. like MINUS 27...to minus 15. which is unparalleled for us here..I think as we're very near the coast it'll miss us but poor those about forty/fifty miles inland. Wheeee. urrrghh.

Whatever, you lot stay safe, warm and well!!!! HUGS.

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

Whee, I love spring in winter. :) I'm glad the really frigid air is going to miss you. Weather is a whacky thing in these days of climate change.

We did stay warm. The worst of the ice gave us a miss, thank goodness. We had a lot coating the trees but not enough to damage them. The sun never did come out from behind the clouds, which was disappointing since that meant no magical sparkles, which is the only good thing about trees coated with ice. :/

This week we get spring... temps around the 15C/60F quite a number of days and Saturday especially is supposed to be glorious and just in time for the "Whip Solstice" so we can get our summer treat of pineapple sherbet: http://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/2017/01/16/pineapple-whip-open-4-days-week/96637576/

[bluegerl.livejournal.com]

So glad the cold was just cold. I know what you mean about sun and icecoated trees... sheer mind blowing magic. But I like the foggy strange pictures (I always imagine unicorns treading silently through the snow) We have METERS of snow in the east of France, but here, tis a frigid SPRING... bright sun and it is warm, I can feel it through the window on my ear! Mind you the grass is silver and rockhard.

Could that nicelooking Dan bring me over a bunch of Whips... I'm into the mango ones esp. Heh heh heh.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

That was a gorgeous moon last Friday the 13th wasn't it? Wolf moon! I read that there were astronomers arguing whether that one should have been called a Super Moon or just a large full moon. It was beautiful anyways.

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't know. *points to details about the ice storm* It was behind all those clouds. :/

I'm glad it was pretty, though.