The cool thing about the month of February is that it is exactly 4 weeks long. And that means that whatever day of the week a certain falls on in February, the same date will fall on the same day in March. So, if February 1 falls on a Tuesday, the March 1 will also fall on a Tuesday. Plus, February is last of winter for these parts. Spring is almost here.
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Here it is September and only four months left in 2010. The year is dissolving quickly. The weather has turned cooler, the trees will be bursting into bright colors in a couple of weeks. Next thing you know it will be Christmas and then a New Year.
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Well, parts of the state got about 6 inches of snow, but at my house we have about 4 inches and it is already melting.Of course, all the schools are closed in the interest of safe driving by school bus drivers who have to go up the treacherous mountain roads covered with snow and ice.
The snow was very dry and not the kind that makes a good snowball or snowman, but seems to be good for sledding. I have seen some neighborhood kids dragging sleds behind them as they walk down the road toward the farm. The snow would have blown about if there had been any wind. Thankfully, we didn’t have much wind and there are not large drifts anywhere that I can see.
We just have to let the sun do its job and melt this damn stuff. I’m not going to waste my time shoveling snow when it will be melted in a day or two.
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We’ve had some snow already but now the “big one” seems to be headed our way. The weather forecast is for anywhere between 3 inches and a foot of accumulation. It just depends on whether the approaching storm from Texas and Oklahoma end up head straight East or if it takes a utrn to the north. We’ll see by morning which way it goes.
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I’m the first to admit that I am obsessed with the weather. I keep an ear and an eye out for weather alerts and watch the skies for signs of rain or storms. I’m especially cautious when it comes to lightning, as a good friend of mine was killed in a lightning strike just a couple years ago.
For years pilots and other non-scientists have known about a natural phenomenon with lightning, called Sprites. These are short bursts of light that rise up above the storm clouds and then fall back down into the cloud. They last for just the blink of an eye, so it was hard to capture them on film until this past decade or so. Now we do have cameras and video of the sprites and they look like amazingly like jellyfish for their short violent lives. I saw a video of sprites on the LiveScience web site.
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