Gingerbread Weather

[yourlibrarian]

Earlier in the week we started getting winter weather advisory notices. There were predictions of 4-8 inches of snow, which hardly ever happens anymore. But by Tuesday night I noticed that the hourly predictions had us right around the freezing mark overnight, meaning that at best there would be a light covering of snow because most of it wasn't going to stay frozen.

Even so, my partner's workplace sent out a closure announcement Tuesday night. Wednesday AM, sure enough there was barely enough snow to cover the sidewalks. It looked real pretty on the bare trees but by 11 AM the trees were bare again (even though snow was coming down through the afternoon) as were the sidewalks and parking lot. ( Read more... )