Snow, sleet, rain, freezing rain.
From 5 degrees F on Thursday night to 53 degrees with freezing rain today, we’ve had it all. And there’s more to come. Tomorrow night will be 15 degrees.
This yo-yo weather reminds me of what we learned during the polar vortex in January 2014: Climate change is making the jet stream wobble so we get shots of very cold air and then warm air soon after, as shown in drawing(c) below.
Be careful today! It’s variably icy out there.
p.s. I’ve used an old photo of ice because it’s too icy to step outside this morning!
(photo by Kate St. John. Drawing from Wikimedia Commons; click on the image to see the original)
Hey, I walked 3/4 mile this morning and managed not to fall (but it WASN’T easy)! At least my elbow finally stopped hurting from the fall in Feb 2015.
Yes, today was a wonderful day to reconnect with one’s house. I made it outdoors as far as the porch. The ice covered tree branches look beautiful from my upstairs windows. I was wondering if the squirrels navigating them would slip and fall, but they didn’t.
Robin, a squirrel in my backyard tried to climb up the bird feeder pole to get to the suet. It was comical to watch him leap up, grab the pole and slide back down on the ice.