Tag: Weather

Sunrise Chasing

Salisbury Beach in Massachusetts

I seriously want to go sunrise chasing this weekend but the damn weather isn’t going to cooperate. Salisbury Beach has mostly cloudy in the forecast for the next two days. If I go way up North to Old Orchard Beach it improves to partly cloudy, but that’s not good enough if I am going to drive an hour and a half.

Weather.com doesn’t have hourly forecasts for Monday morning yet, but that’s the day we’re supposed to get what’s left of Hurricane Hermine (or whatever it’s called). Maybe… maybe the storm off shore will be adequate compensation for not being able to see the sun through the clouds. Probably not. Waves are awesome, but it’s the sun breaking the water that I want.

Crud.

What’s Going On?

The great Mark Twain once said:

“If you don’t like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.”

Let’s recap, and then look ahead.

Sunday Morning: The temperature reached -11 degrees fahrenheit with a wind chill that brought the apparent temperature down to about -30.

Monday Night: Snow.  Not a lot, maybe 2-3 inches, but enough to cover the ground and require plows to clean up the roads.

Tuesday: The forecast calls for temperatures above 50 degrees and rain.

Yes, Mr Twain, you nailed that sucker.

I’m pretty sure mother nature is on crack.

Something About Lions

Today is March 30, 2015.  I pulled into a parking spot at work at about 8:45.  As I stepped out of the car it started to snow (I don’t thinks those two events are actually related, it was just coincidence that they happened at the same time).

Remember that old saying about weather in March?  In like a lion, out like a lamb?

Not this year.

This year it’s in like a lion, out like a slightly warmer lion.

Spring is never going to really come again, is it.  Never.  At least The Walking Dead season ended last night.  I might be able to get a good night sleep on Sundays for a while.  Then again, there is that spin off show starting in the summer.  What happens if they put that on Sunday nights too?  Uh oh.

Spring – Day Three

It’s the third day of Spring and it’s not snowing. Does that mean anything? It’s 23 degrees out and the high forecast for today is 27. So it’s not snowing, but it is fricken freezing Mr Bigglesworth.

I want warm and summer and beach and happy.

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Happy Spring

According to my calendar today is the first day of Spring!  Happy Spring, everyone!  You survived another Winter!  Nice job!

The temperature in Methuen, Massachusetts right now is 16 degrees Farenheight and the forecast for tonight calls for snow.

Happy Spring, everyone!

Snow

I shoveled the last of yesterday’s snow off the driveway this morning. I believe it is the best snowball/snowman making snow I have ever seen.

In other news, the snowpocalypse is supposed to be coming late Monday night and running through Wednesday morning. They are calling for about three feet in my neck of the woods. We have been lucky in these parts as yesterday was the first real snow storm we’ve had this winter.

Looks like our luck is about to change.

Yippee.

Think I’ll hunker down with my guitar and hope the power doesn’t go out.

Oh Happy Day!

Today is the day! It has finally arrived!

Today is the first day of Spring! Hooray! Winter’s seemingly endless oppression is finally over!

Of course the temperature is only just above freezing and it’s going to rain all day, so it’s not really a glorious first day of Spring.

I’ll take it!

Happy Spring, everyone! Screw you, Winter!

Another Day of Snow Sucking Up the Place

I took the kids to their Dad’s house this morning so that they could catch their rides to school.  I was a little surprised by the state of some of the roads.  The snow ended yesterday morning, but it still was a little sloppy here and there.  Route 93 North seemed to be much icier than I had expected.

I’m working from home today, so I didn’t have to deal with my long commute.  My wife, however, has to go to a training in Boston today.  She left the house at 6:30am.  She called me at 8:00 and she’d only made it about half way, if that.  As of 8:15 she still wasn’t even remotely close.

Why?

Is this a case of the state dropping the ball on cleaning up the highways, or is it just an example of a phenomenon that occurs each year where most drivers react to the first snowfall of the year by completely forgetting how to drive in the snow.  I would guess that it’s a combination, but frankly the snow fell yesterday and both things should have been cleared up by today.

Hang in there, my love.  Be safe.  I love you!