It is only mid-November and it feels like we’ve already had a good share of winter weather this year. Last week we had a strong, cold wind storm and then some freezing rain. And yesterday on my bicycle commute to work I encountered this:
Needless to say, it was a rather brisk ride in to work. I don’t recall ever seeing this temperature in mid-November here. But no wind, so it was fine.
Speaking of wind, I think our fall colors got curtailed with the cold and wind last week. The trees are quite bare for this time in November, as you can see from my usual Intel vista.
By getting an early start does this mean winter will be milder and shorter, or longer and more severe? Only time will tell.
Yesterday was a record low high temperature here. Normal high is 60, and yesterday our high was 35. At least it was sunny out. A local meteorologist is from Upstate New York so he was posting amazing photos of all the snow in the Buffalo region. I think some people got 5 or 6 feet of snow!
It seems the whole country, except maybe So. CA, has been socked in by an early winter. I forget what day, maybe last Saturday?, the temp was 19 when I got out of bed.
Yes, my mom’s cousin in So. CA said it got down to 78 today. I think he was making fun of the rest of us. 🙂