Please allow me to interject my feelings about Mother Nature

Only if you get woken up in "that special way."

 

It was 64 here this afternoon. Tonight into morning, we are under a winter storm warning.
Any snow that comes won't stick because the ground and roads are warm, but W.T.F.

 

The Bay Area (and Cali in general) over the last week. Really, this is over the last four days we have just gotten hammered with rain.

 

I should be on record as being an outdoorsman.
Last weekend, I grilled both Saturday and Sunday. I froze my tail off because it was <40, but it was sunny, so I grilled.
This morning, I when I was out running at 5:15, it was 17. I wore a COVID mask to help keep my face warm. My breath froze on my eyelashes.
I fully understand it's the heart of winter, but I'm more than ready for warm/dry weather.
We've had nothing but mud since before Christmas, and I haven't been fishing in a month.

 

Some of the videos from Shasta all the way down to Mammoth are just amazing. Sierra cement, indeed. (And 15 minutes to Tahoe IF you were within walking distance -- and even then, it might have been over your head.)

But that kind of blizzard, coupled with 100-plus mph winds, just brings 80 and 50 to a halt. Sure hope that helps the snowpack, though, because it seemed like the state was way too warm and dry as a bone so far this winter.

And isn't that typical of California? It seems to go from drought to potential mudslides in a 48-hour period.

 

And hang on tight, all you Mid-Atlantic and Northeasterners. The storm that's just getting started over the center of the country tomorrow is supposed to be a snowmaker over the next 72 hours, particularly around D.C. and NYC. According to the forecast I saw, somebody's going to end up with 18 inches in their backyard by the time it's over.

We're on the warm side of the cold front, so just a bit of rain here. North Carolina is tricky -- one model shows a snow-ice line from Asheville to Raleigh but others forecast more rain than snow.

 

I'd be tickled with some snow. We really haven't had an honest to goodness snow since '98. I'm talking knee deep, double digit snow.
The last 20 years our winters have been a few inches of snow here or there; otherwise, it's been overcast, cold as balls, wet, muddy, nasty for 6-8 weeks.
I can deal with cold. I can deal with wet. I hate cold, wet, nasty.

 

I'll trade real cold and snowy for cold, wet, nasty anytime. Still remember February 2015. My town in Mass. got 110 inches of snow in the month and it didn't melt because there were only five days of temperatures above 35 in the daytime.

 

Y'all can have both, just keep them up there.

 

We took a school trip to Boston in April that year. There was still snow piled up in parking lots where it had been pushed.