As I'd mentioned in a previous post, due to a primarily stationary high pressure 'bubble' Winter has been bypassing the North West of the country and dropping down from Canada into Montana and all points South and East from there with the accompanying record cold and snowfall for many unaccustomed areas.
Well that bubble has moved just a bit West and this area got a bit of snow, about 4 inches total for the last week. Yesterday, Sunday, was actually a beautiful day with a constant light snowfall all day long. Just a few flakes falling all day long with no real accumulation.
Just a few minutes ago I got this email from our local online news site about the upcoming cold weather that's expected the rest of the week:
Well that bubble has moved just a bit West and this area got a bit of snow, about 4 inches total for the last week. Yesterday, Sunday, was actually a beautiful day with a constant light snowfall all day long. Just a few flakes falling all day long with no real accumulation.
Just a few minutes ago I got this email from our local online news site about the upcoming cold weather that's expected the rest of the week:
The National Weather Service has issued a wind
chill watch effective Tuesday night through Wednesday morning predicting numbing
temperatures and even colder wind chill.
In Boundary County, Tuesday should bring a high temperature of 11 degrees, and drop to three-degrees overnight, when a northwest wind of 10 to 20 miles an hour, gusting to up to 30 miles per hour, will make it feel as if it's around 20-below or even colder.
Such a chill can lead to frostbite within 30 minutes of exposure. Any male brass monkeys left out will sing soprano by morning, once they thaw out, and any witches cavorting overnight Tuesday will likely need a trip to Wal-Mart Wednesday to find a new brassier in the junior miss section.
In Boundary County, Tuesday should bring a high temperature of 11 degrees, and drop to three-degrees overnight, when a northwest wind of 10 to 20 miles an hour, gusting to up to 30 miles per hour, will make it feel as if it's around 20-below or even colder.
Such a chill can lead to frostbite within 30 minutes of exposure. Any male brass monkeys left out will sing soprano by morning, once they thaw out, and any witches cavorting overnight Tuesday will likely need a trip to Wal-Mart Wednesday to find a new brassier in the junior miss section.
www.newsbf.com
Even with that writers attempted humor you get the drift that it will be very cold for the coming days. We've had quite a bit of that, cold, but the area news is says less that half of the seasonal moisture. The area National Public Radio station in Spokane, Washington, had a story of the effects of the Western drought in Ashland, Oregon, Fresno, California and Las Vegas, Nevada. It should still be online at npr.org. In the last few weeks I saw some AP news stories on YouTube about cattle owners selling off cattle over the cost of feeding them in central California.
Our daughter in Huston, sent me photos of the ice in their area, one photo was of a sheet of ice that had slid part way off a speed limit sign then froze there in the slide. Pretty amazing for usually hot and humid Houston.
Well, more later!
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