Please allow me to interject my feelings about Mother Nature

I hate this time of year amlso.

I complained about it and somebody told me that sunset starts getting later in the first week of December. This fact completely changed my perspective. If I can get to early December and later sunsets, I can make it until the shortest day of the year.

 

Your typical Kansas road sign:

WARNING: Slight Curve 25 Miles Ahead.

 

Pretty cool day in downtown Buffalo (I'm not there, just a photo I saw). Sixteen (16) inches of lake-effect snow in my little hometown earlier this week. If not for winter I'd move back there in a heartbeat.

 

The sunsets are at their maximum earliest now and will slowly get later, which is weird because sunrises don't begin earlier until Jan. 9 or so.

 

I think we have bottomed out at 5:16 p.m. and will stay consistently there for the next two weeks.

 

Sun will not set at 5:16 here until around the Super Bowl. Set at 4:12 yesterday.

 

Just looked at the week-ahead forecast for my little spot on the east coast of Australia. Friday’s high: 41. That’s 41 C.

 

That is the equivalent of 106ºF in early June in North America. In Dallas that would set a record, but wouldn't blow it way (record high for June 2 is 104ºF).

 

Meanwhile, in Germany ...

Snowstorm paralyzes travel in southern Germany

 

Huge storm? December? Watch for Panzer Divisions assembling in the Ardennes.

Atmospheric river in the PNW the next 2-3 days. Raining cats, digs, sheep and cows for the last 24 hours in Microville.