Winter blues
Oct. 18th, 2009 07:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieAccording 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.
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.
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Date: 2009-10-19 04:31 pm (UTC)I remember that too! I also recall it starting to snow like crazy when we were driving back from a ballroom competition at Purdue. We managed to beat it home without too much trouble, though.
But mostly I remember the endless, endless plain of white that was campus. It messed with my head so badly that the snow didn't melt before more fell.
My winter's supposed to be warm. I'd trade you.
Oh, please do.