Sunday, February 05, 2006

This Is Just Silly

As I'm writing this, it is about 10:30 in the morning, and it is raining outside. We have had quite a bit of rain, and sunshine, and temperatures well above freezing this winter. Today, just looking at the calendar and remembering where I am, I would expect to look outside and see a deep coating of fresh snow, instead of the soggy, thin layer of ice that is the remnant of our last, and not terribly impressive, snowstorm.

I remember that we had a blizzard before the official start of winter, but that is now just a memory. And predictions of colder weather in the coming week don't amount to much: the lowest temperature predicted is 14 degrees overnight, and only for one day. There is snow in the forecast, but only showers with little or no accumulation.

I am not complaining, really. It's kept our heating bill down and allowed us to get our leaky roof fixed much earlier than would have been possible during a normal winter.

But it's weird, you know?

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