I found this article today and thought I would share. Us Kansans are experiencing the worst winter since 1977. Over Christmas 2009 to New Years 2010 we accumulated approximately 18inches in snow, not to mention how bad the drifts were. However we have been lucky up until now with the temperature. Yes chilly but not dangerous like today. We received another 2-5 inches of snow last night.(I am telling ya these mounds from the snow plows will be here until summer) Today we have weather warning for drifts and visibility when driving due to the winds that are to be up to 40mph putting our windchill at sometimes -20 degrees. They say that no one should be outside unprotected with clothing from here until early Saturday for it can physically hurt you.
On the positive side. This is really neat to me. I have never experienced this before. I really don't have a lot to complain about. I have a warm house, a warm office, Dalton is at a warm daycare. I have 4WD in my Blazer(again shout outs and huge thank you's to Sister Wood), Starbucks is always open(yay for Exspresso Truffle), I made Taco Soup last night and Russ loved it. Tonight I head to my Bestie's house regardless of this snow and wind. I refuse to not go and see her new house. :) I also had the pleasure of waking up this morning to my car completely cleaned off, windows scraped and a path shoveled all the way from the front door and around my car so that Bubba and I could get around easy(although I had to tell Dalton to stay on the path, little pooper wants to play in the snow so bad) mind you Russ had to have been doing that for me around midnight or 1am cause that's when he leaves for work. Man he loves me and cares about us so much. :)
Enough rambling I mainly posted this because we may not see this weather for another 20years or maybe this is global cooling instead of warming. Either way it marks history.
Side note: the radio station I listened to stated that 47 states...47 had snow on the ground on Christmas Day! That's crazy!
Western New Yorkers were lamenting last year’s lost summer when a national meteorologist warned that winter 2009-2010 could be the coldest and snowiest for the Northeast in more than five years.
But wait, weather observers.
Upon further review, an updated forecast from the same prognosticator, AccuWeather.com chief meteorologist Joe Bastardi in State College, Pa., is worse: It could be the worst winter in 25 years, he says.
With nearly the entire eastern half of the United States currently in the grip of a bitter cold wave not felt since 1985, Bastardi’s long-range forecast does nothing to warm anyone’s heart or body.
“It’ll be like the great winters of the ‘60s and ‘70s,” said Bastardi, who hinted last July that the current winter would be a cold one.
Those words must send a shiver through longtime Western New Yorkers who undoubtedly remember those as the decades when historic snowstorms blanketed the region.
Bastardi says that while the upcoming days will bring cold not seen since 1985 or 1982, he believes that this winter is shaping up much like that of 1977-1978. That winter, much of the U.S. east of the Rocky Mountains had a cold October, followed by a warm November and then a cold December — very similar to the pattern for the final three months of 2009.
Happy Shoveling Everyone :) Stay Warm..
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