So Sad About Us
Oct. 18th, 2004 10:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alfvaenSuddenly, it became winter.
We got a big dump of snow on Friday night, and it has continued snowing ever since. The temperature is still hovering around freezing, but hasn't gotten too far about it. I don't know the exact inchage, or centimetrage, of snow, but I'd hazard a guess at 4-5 inches.
Having the first snow of the season in October is not unheard of. This is Edmonton, after all, 53.5 degrees north latitude, just east of the Rocky Mountains, hundreds, if not thousands, of kilometers from the ocean. But normally it comes a bit later in the month, and is only a slight dusting that melts by noon the next day. This one is trying hard to be the beginning of the snow that sticks all winter. Maybe next week it'll get up to +15 ° Celsius and it'll all melt. Weather is a funny thing. What's the saying? "Climate is what you expect. Weather is what you get."
To make it worse, the cold that Nicole and I picked up around Thanksgiving(that's "Columbus Day" for all you Americans), which had seemed to be getting better all week, crashed down again the same time as the snow. I'm still suffering an annoying amount of post-nasal drip, which turns into sore throat overnight. Still not sick enough to justify taking time off work, but I'm not looking forward to shoveling the driveway tomorrow morning.
We got a big dump of snow on Friday night, and it has continued snowing ever since. The temperature is still hovering around freezing, but hasn't gotten too far about it. I don't know the exact inchage, or centimetrage, of snow, but I'd hazard a guess at 4-5 inches.
Having the first snow of the season in October is not unheard of. This is Edmonton, after all, 53.5 degrees north latitude, just east of the Rocky Mountains, hundreds, if not thousands, of kilometers from the ocean. But normally it comes a bit later in the month, and is only a slight dusting that melts by noon the next day. This one is trying hard to be the beginning of the snow that sticks all winter. Maybe next week it'll get up to +15 ° Celsius and it'll all melt. Weather is a funny thing. What's the saying? "Climate is what you expect. Weather is what you get."
To make it worse, the cold that Nicole and I picked up around Thanksgiving(that's "Columbus Day" for all you Americans), which had seemed to be getting better all week, crashed down again the same time as the snow. I'm still suffering an annoying amount of post-nasal drip, which turns into sore throat overnight. Still not sick enough to justify taking time off work, but I'm not looking forward to shoveling the driveway tomorrow morning.
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Date: 2004-10-18 09:36 pm (UTC)