It's definitely been a mild winter here. Not that I'm complaining--after living for 7 years in Northern California, I'm a wimp when it comes to both hot and cold weather. But when I saw in the weather report that there was a slight chance of snow Sunday night, I was excited about the possibility of our first snow. Other than when traveling for Christmas, we haven't been somewhere where it snowed since 2004, back in college!
I stalked the weather report Sunday evening, and sure enough, when the temps got down to about 33 degrees, we had icy rain that started to stick to our deck.
But I showed great restraint. I waited until it got down to 32.5 degrees before I layered on several fleeces with my waterproof North Face jacket, 2 scarves, knit hat and gloves, and went out to skid down the driveway in my tennis shoes, and make snow angels. My husband came out and stood on the deck to watch me, with a glass of wine in hand, for all of 2 minutes.
I, however, lasted a good 10 minutes outside until my jeans got too wet from rolling around on the ground. Oh, yes. I am 7 years old, why do you ask? :P
About an hour later, it was still coming down, but we only got to 32.1 degrees.
Shortly after these last two pictures, taken from my front porch, the snow stopped as the storm passed, and the temperature started to rise again. And the next morning, all we had was dripping roofs, and melting ice in the shade.
But I was pretty happy to experience our first snow in 8 years, even if it was extremely brief! On Thursday the weather report is showing a high of 73. How's that for a quick winter?!
Have you had a more-mild-than-usual winter where you live too? Anyone else love frolicking around in the snow like a kid?
10 comments:
We got about two inches of snow here and it was melted by the next morning by 10!
We've also had an extremely warm winter. I was hoping to get some snow a few weeks ago, since it was snowing about four hours north of us, but no dice.
Pretty pictures! I'd roll in that, too!
We had NO, N.O., snow until the first weekend in February which is very strange for Nebraska. Since then we've only had one other snow blast and then LOTS of rain which is melting amost all of it already. So we've only had a month of winter-ish weather.
LOL to your hubby. *wine sip* Mo-gan, you so crazy.
I'm glad that you got a bit of snow to roll around in for a few hours! I am not a snow person, but love spending some time in Tahoe once a year during the winter months. I don't ski, but it's fun to hang out at my husband's family's lake house and build a snowman or take a walk. I'm sure you've heard that Northern California has had an incredibly mild winter with very little rain and lots of days in the high 60s/low 70s! If it weren't for the environmental ramifications of this, I'd be thrilled!
When it's worse than that, people are TERRIBLE drivers. We do not go out anywhere, we simply stay home. I would have liked a 'real' snow day though!
We've had a pretty standard winter in Tucson, only with less rain. We did get snow last week (on Valentine's Day!). It's funny because I'm from the Bay Area, so I never lived anywhere where it snowed, either. But every year since I moved to Arizona, I've had at least one day of snow at my house, lol! 8 years and counting!
We thought we might get hit with the upper edge of that storm here in DC, but we didn't! I'm still no fan of snow but am shocked that all we've gotten are a few flurries so far all winter. I can't believe spring is almost here!
Snow is so fun! I totally act like a kid on the (very) rare occasion when we get it here!
Pretty! I think I would like that, where it snows on a rare occasion, just enough to make it fun, not enough for a nuisance.
what a nice sprinkle of snow :) it's been a very warm winter here, too. and i like it.
Post a Comment
I would love to hear from you!