What's your weather?

[hmaria1609]

Warm and windy! Enough for a regional wind advisory today:
https://wtop.com/weather/2021/12/warm-blustery-saturday-gives-d-c-area-spring-feeling-in-december/
From WTOP Radio 12/11/21

[Harlow2]

Appropriately cool and sunny here in the Philly metro area today.  Warmer tomorrow, but just a tad.

We have now bottomed out at our earliest sunset time of 4:35 her in Philly metro, and startingTuesday our sunset times get later by a minute every 3 days. Yay!  (Still losing light in the morning though)

[apl68]

Nearly 80 on Friday, and stormy.  Clear with a good frost on Sunday morning, and didn't warm up all that much.  Frosty again this morning.  Temperatures forecast to rocket back up into the mid-70s for most of the week, then drop to vaguely seasonal levels by the weekend. 

As of about 10 years ago I don't think we'd ever seen temperatures in the 70s during the winter months.  Now they're becoming more the norm than frost.

[mamselle]

And, thankfully, no issues from the tornadoes, it sounds like.

Good news at least in that direction.

M.

[Parasaurolophus]

25cm of snow (about 2cm down now). It's a lot for a place that doesn't see more than, like, 5cm normally, and that in February. Just took the car down our (I shit you not) 80-degree driveway, and was glad for the snow tires.

[mamselle]

They're calling snow-ow-ow-ow-----ow-ow-ow (imagine Jeanette 'n' Eddie)...

...but so far, nada.

M.

[lilyb]

A string of 60 degree and sunny days here. Living in a city that's always a frontrunner for the Golden Snow Globe contest (snowiest city in US), I should be grateful.

But this is so UNNATURAL. Global warming is feeling very real.

[apl68]

A string of 60 degree and sunny days here. Living in a city that's always a frontrunner for the Golden Snow Globe contest (snowiest city in US), I should be grateful.

But this is so UNNATURAL. Global warming is feeling very real.

I know what you mean.  Where we live white Christmases have historically been very rare.  I've seen two in half a century.  But until about a decade ago it was at least normally chilly around Christmas.  The extended forecast is now calling for highs in the mid-70s on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.  We'll almost certainly never see a white Christmas again here.  Maybe never even a cool and cozy one.

[Parasaurolophus]

25cm of snow (about 2cm down now). It's a lot for a place that doesn't see more than, like, 5cm normally, and that in February. Just took the car down our (I shit you not) 80-degree driveway, and was glad for the snow tires.

Lies: it's freezing rain.

[ab_grp]

It's a gray day that looks like rain, but apparently we may have snow tonight! We have gotten one or two very, very minimal snowfalls each year, so we'll see. 

Parasaurolophus, I feel you on the driveway.  Ours is also quite steep, which is why I am so glad not to really get snow or freezing rain here! I can't even imagine trying to navigate that.  Be careful out there!

[mamselle]

I haven't been out today (presentations online indoors) but a friend just said we've got the slushy-sidewalk-blues, too.

I had heard here on Sunday that it was coming--starting to think this guy might be kind of good...

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1kW8dtvqnY

M.

[hmaria1609]

Hypothermia alert activated last night.
Got a x-large Hershey's hot chocolate at the local gas station on my way to the library--great for a cold and frosty morning!

[mamselle]

kk-k-k-c-c-c-cooooollllllddddd....

It was 18 F when I awoke, it's 'gone up' (?) to 28 F now. ('Up'? that's a crawl in a diagonally miniscule direction in my book...)

Humph.

M. 

[apl68]

Our extended forecast just keeps climbing.  Today was chilly, but we're looking at highs in the upper 70s and low 80s for the next week.  They're now forecasting 80 degrees on Christmas day.  Not the end of the world, but a pretty good indication that we can see it from here.

[mamselle]

Still kkkooolllddd....

M.