Glinting Q. Formalize ([info]ilanarama) wrote,
@ 2008-02-04 10:19:00
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do not taunt happy fun La Niña
I had no idea that my heartfelt letter to the global atmospheric circulation back in November would have such dramatic results.



More photos on my Flickr page. Skiing tomorrow, I think.

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[info]darththalia
2008-02-04 07:10 pm UTC (link)
Could you maybe work on getting Chicago a nice, mild summer? You obviously have way more influence with the weather gods than I do....

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[info]ilanarama
2008-02-06 06:48 pm UTC (link)
Working at the National Center for Atmospheric Research has its perks!

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[info]sdwolfpup
2008-02-04 07:43 pm UTC (link)
Holy cow that's a lot of snow. They kept telling us we'd get snow showers all weekend and nothing. For which I'm grateful, ultimately. Heh.

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[info]ilanarama
2008-02-06 06:49 pm UTC (link)
I'm stunned. Old-timers say it was last like this in 1993 (when I lived in Colorado, but not this part of it) and before that, in the late 70s.

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[info]alembicresearch
2008-02-04 09:37 pm UTC (link)
Yahoo!
Must be interesting to live in a place where it snows!
(I've always lived where you run up to the snow for a day,
and when you get tired of it, drive back home).

We've been getting lots of rain here ...
maybe a little over the average ... so all the
Californians complain about "how horrible it is not
to se the sun for 2 days", etc.
(in the same way a Seattlite might complain about not
seeing the sun for 2 months).

Yesterday morning I was in a coffee shop reading the paper
and watching a heavy cloud burst dump outside for a while.

Just as I finish the Sunday paper, it stopped, so I walked
down the street the few block away where I'd parked, and got
to enjoy that beautiful moment right after a cloud burst
when its sunny clear blue sky on one side of the street,
and torrents of water rushing into down the gutters.

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[info]ilanarama
2008-02-06 06:49 pm UTC (link)
I like it! It's pretty! It's meteorology in action!

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[info]traveller42
2008-02-05 09:19 pm UTC (link)
Now I know who is hogging all the snow! ;^>

We've been getting a lot of snow, then warming up and melting it all.

Warm air + snow = Fog

Then big temperature drop leading to freezing rain turning to snow.

And then the cycle starts again.

Envious in Michigan.

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[info]ilanarama
2008-02-06 06:51 pm UTC (link)
Ordinarily we get warm weather to melt it out, too, although since the air is so arid here we don't get fog, and the temperature usually drops so quickly when a storm comes in that we rarely get freezing rain unless it's a late-spring or early-fall storm. I'm loving the snow-pileup, though!

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