... so much nicer than rain (which is what I'm afraid it's changing over to right now).
UPDATE: The big flakes — my favorite kind of snow — are back. It looked like the switchover to rain, but the cheerful flakes have won the day. Beautiful!!
April 10, 2019
Big snowflakes in April...
... so much nicer than rain (which is what I'm afraid it's changing over to right now).
UPDATE: The big flakes — my favorite kind of snow — are back. It looked like the switchover to rain, but the cheerful flakes have won the day. Beautiful!!
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"so much nicer than rain (which is what I'm afraid it's changing over to right now)."
One of the things I hated about living in Boston was that whenever we had some godawful 34-degree rain, some cheerful Bostonian would say, "Isn't this great? At least it's not snow!"
I'm proud of my restraint in never decking these people.
Plants popped up everywhere in the last two days and we cleared away the protecting fallen leaves so I'm hoping for rain, not snow. Sprinkles here in Milwaukee a couple of hours ago but no rain or snow - yet
Wow that Candace Owens.
Got a helluva snow yesterday, after changing from rain at first. All melted by 6 pm. Montana so coming your way.
Somehow I just can't get excited about any kind of snow in April.
Sunny and 63 degrees today. I was out spreading mulch.
Down to the 70s today after 96 yesterday,
Just what Madison needs: more snowflakes. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath.
2 days ago it was in the 70s. I was walking around in a T-shirt.
In the 70's I was walking around in bell-bottoms.
Winter overstays it’s welcome. You should get three months then cede the stage.
Goes for you too Summer.
I refused all Carrel, and dissed Sunshine State or whatever it was about the pagent Litt Miss, because I watched Carrel on the Daily Show.
Loved it,
Laughed and laughed and laughed at those inbred hicks. The stupid.
Well I saw after TDS Carrel in an interview, paraphrased, say "yeah it was kinda mean to make fun of mentally deficient people like we made so much fame and money from" or something like that.
Appreciated the honesty, but didn't trust him.
Never watched the office.
Then I streamed it.
Now it's on COZI,,, I love it.
Kudos, Steve.
"tcrosse said...
In the 70's I was walking around in bell-bottoms."
Heh.
One of if not the only times (I remember selectively only) the only only times: I watched the Brit version first. Liked it.
Liked Rickey at those globes of gold or whatever Iron Man was so butthurt about. Ha.
Steyn used to repeat himself every April with a poem about how it's the saddest month.
Agrarian bitch to the soil I am, I disagree.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=steynonline.com+april+is+the+saddest+month&t=opera&ia=web
I can't get no relief.
It's one only tiny mere, not even a factor, so like a half factor, of a thing, significant.
It's an 8% solution to an 80% problem.
We just need more Judicial Watch.
Somehow I just can't get excited about any kind of snow in April.
April 10th 1973. No one in Iowa has forgotten that date. 20" of wet heavy snow and 70mph winds. It was the worst weather event I can remember as far as farming goes, and caring for livestock. Cut and past the link,(still haven't figured out how to do hot links) its to the Cedar Rapids gazette and as some pictures. April 10th!
http://crgazette.mycapture.com/mycapture/enlarge.asp?image=45194351&event=1581359&CategoryID=52775
Having been driven bonkers, at least once, I refuse to go back.
No more Bonkers for me, no sir. Or Ma'am. Or Wellnotun?
79 here in Mesa AZ and I will never live up north again
When I was teenager in Kentucky in 1981 we were celebrating my grandfather's 55th birthday which was on March 24th. That day we got a burst of snow that lasted about 20 minutes that had the biggest snowflakes I had or have ever seen- it literally looked like someone was raining snowballs from the sky they were that large.
We got into the low 80s here today in Oak Ridge, TN. Beautiful Spring day, and the trees have almost completely leafed out in the last 3 days.
Definitely my favorite time of the year- early April til the end of May.
Speaking of April snow, in the first week of April in 1987, I was commuter college student that year living at home. My parents had taken my oldest sister for an interview for a college scholarship, and I was home alone. The weather forecast for the overnight had been for a cold rain. That morning I got up, showered, and got dressed, as I was walking through the living room, I looked outside for the first time that morning to see a foot of wet heavy snow on the ground that hadn't been there the day before. The feeling was as weird as I have ever felt- for about 15-20 seconds I had literally no clue what time of the year it was- I really thought I was dreaming. It continued to snow all day and the next day and we ended up with almost 3 feet of snow that was like shoveling wet concrete. The funny thing was, we were just above the snowline elevation- just a few miles down the valley floor, it had only rained.
From William F. Buckley's "The Lexicon: A cornucopia of wonderful words for the inquisitive word lover"
Introduction by Jesse Sheidlower
I L L U S T R A T I O N S B Y A R N O L D R O T H
epistemology (noun) The study of the method and grounds of knowledge, especially with reference to its limits and validity.
In an age of relativism one tends to look for flexible devices for measuring this morning's truth. Such a device is democracy; and indeed, democracy becomes epistemology: democracy will render reliable political truths just as surely as the marketplace sets negotiable economic values.
epochal (adjective) Extremly important, likely to affect future events or the understanding of them.
During the tumultuous month since being told he would be returning to Cuba on an important mission, he had been given intensive training. And then had come the epochal briefing the day before departure, delivered by Malinovsky himself.
eponym (noun) A person whose name gave meaning to a word that became common.
Billy Budd is practically an eponym for--innocence, purity.
Rain and snow, now tiny little flakes here in Boulder. The 6-10 inches is looking like 3 at most overnight. As with the "Bomb Cyclone" last month, a lot of hoohah over an average spring storm.
The plague of clickbait has infected every aspect of news: weather, business, it doesn't matter. Wait'll it hits the obits.
As they say, Big Snow, Little Snow. If they start as large snowflakes they always turn to rain.
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