Winter blues

[icepixie]

According to this, the 2009-1010 winter is going to look like the winter of 2002-2003.

That was the worst winter in sixty years up in Ohio, or so I heard. We got something like two feet of snow in December, and it hung around until March. (It was my freshman year, and the first time I'd seen snow that didn't fall, look pretty, and then go away. I thought I was going to go insane from the lack of resolution.) Kenyon declared its first snow day in, what was it, twenty years or something incredible like that? Even my parents back in Nashville got eight inches or something outrageous for Tennessee one time that year.

Knoxville is also right smack in the middle of the bubble labeled "well below average" on the temperature forecast. Craaaaaaap.

Horrified, I hunted around online for contradictory reports, but...there aren't any. In fact, several of them add in predictions for record-breaking ice storms. Ohhhh, this is gonna suck. Definitely time to move south.

I'm counting on the general wisdom that forecasting at that long of a range is a complete crapshoot and hoping for a warm, dry winter. Still, note to self: schedule office and journal hours for afternoons next semester. Give those few plows we have some time to work.

Comments

[rensong.livejournal.com]

As someone who is paid to study climate and stuff... Yeah, I gotta agree; we are in for a looooong, cold winter, and I kind of think that these last few years (in Wisconsin this has meant lots of snow and at least two or three weeks worth of temps where the temperature doesn't get above 0 degrees F) are just the beginning of the long-term trend.

Of course, we are also the weathermen (kinda), and I would not at all mind in the least if Ma Nature proved me wrong.

[rensong.livejournal.com]

Though, hey, now that I actually look at the link, Wisconsin is "Not as cold and snowy" for once. If that happens, I will not protest.

Of course, considering it's *Wisconsin*, "Not as cold and snowy" might still mean an awful lot of cold and snow, just not as much as the last year or two. Which was *a lot*.

[icepixie]

I'm just hoping all the fronts come through during the day, and just give us rain rather than snow or ice...