Jan. 22- Statistically The Coldest Day Of The Year
in the Northern Hemisphere.I'm in Wisconsin.
We're having a bona fide thunderstorm. With real rain!
NOT snow - aka a thundersnow.
There's grass in my yard.
True, it's not green. But it IS grass. In January!
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Stay safe
It's weather...like when we were in a deep freeze a couple weeks ago.
Like the feller sez, 'It's extremes that make an average.'
Frankly, I don't care what it is!
It's January!
We're having a thunderstorm. With real rain!
I see grass in my yard.
I was confused when water was, like, falling outta the sky!
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I searched it on YouTube
It's O.K.!
Just that rain stuff.
Quite common, actually.
Or so it said on YouTube...don't know how far I'd trust it.
I put it into the same category as flying saucers and yeti
It is El Niño; or is it la Niña this time.
Water? Falling Outta The Sky?
SERIOUSLY?!
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But I'm a believer now, you betcha!
And if there's really such a thing as...you know...rain...
I'm seriously reconsidering my take on Yetis.
I was always pretty sure 'bout flying saucers though.
Anything that has its own emoticon......evidence like that is quite compelling.
As we all know.
Probably better than YouTube even.
enjoy it so
But it is serious. We had water restrictions for the last six months.and use our bath water to flush our toilets and dishwater to water our plants.
It rained this morning (out of season) but it did not even wet the ground before it stopped. Our weatherman predicts 80% chance for rain tomorrow but they did not say how much to expect. I have a 20 liter bucket under the gutter in case it rains enough so I can wash my car.
But this is nothing new. I can remember water restriction since my school days. We just don't have enough water in this country. our dams are empty and the rainy season is still a few months away.
We are still going to kill each other for water.
That's Hollywood for,
I watch to much TV
That's medical for 'I'm dyslexic'.
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"Here In New England?
"What Youve Been A Having?"
"Is A Comin This Away"
"Tomorrow"
"Here In New England?
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"Rain..............Temperature Of 55 Degrees"
"And Thunderstorms"
"In The Afternoon"...........................
Enjoy ...
Temp dropped to -3c
Water that had fallen from the sky (aka 'rain') turned to ice
Water still falling from the sky turned to freezing rain
Then snow
Which covered the ice
Grass is gone
Enjoyed the respite from bleak frozen white hell.
Brief though it was
Like the feller sez, 'It's the extremes that make an average.'
greenbrown land, where you will never see that dreaded water falling from the sky ever againYears ago there were talks of towing icebergs from the Antarctica but I don't know what they're going to do with it when it gets here. But nothing came of it in any way.
When the rain comes and the dams are full nobody is going to worry until the rain stays away again.
Towing an Antarctic iceberg?!
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Here's the new plan...
WAIT...
Yes. Wait!
EnvironmentAl Gore says it's gonna melt.
Then all you have to do is haul the water to S.A. in tankers.
Better yet, use the time while you're waiting constructively.
Build a pipeline to Antarctica & you'll be ready to turn the spigot the very instant EnvironmentAl is proven correct!
The pipeline will have the added advantage of being less easily set ablaze than a ship.
(See eks's blog on S.A. Problem Solving)