This Is Drivel

Tag: weather

  • it had to happen

    it had to happen

    Woke up to the first snow of the season clinging to the windows of my minivan. A cold drizzle fell the previous night, so I had to put a lot of elbow grease into scraping it off the windows. I could have let the engine run a while so the defrosters could do their magic Read.

  • frozen butt

    The thermometer says it isn’t any colder out now than it was when I left the house at eight-thirty. My butt, on the other hand, says it is. I want to believe the thermometer, but I have to live in the same set of clothes with my butt, so I believe it’s colder. Actually, I Read.

  • not going well

    I have to say, Spring is not going well this year. The rain that started yesterday kept on pissing down all night and this morning, but we’re pretty lucky to get nothing worse than that.  Not much farther north, they’re talking about having to shovel several inches of snow, drifting, and other unpleasantness.  I’m pretty Read.

  • Gloved

    I had to wear gloves today for the first time since the snow melted. And I’ve been wearing my winter coat all week. *sigh* Guess I’ll just go looking for my scarf already. Read.

  • sundog day afternoon

    Sundog Day Afternoon Read.

  • missing fall

    Before we left town to visit New York, the weather here was fine, all the trees were green, even the lawns were starting to look normal again after the summer heat wave that tried to kill them off. New York was hot and muggy. We had a little rain, but temps were always in the Read.

  • stuck

    The air conditioner was running when I got out of bed this morning. That’s how hot it’s been here the last couple of days, and it’s supposed to go on being this hot all week long. Actually, the airco kept coming on all night long. I know this won’t sound weird at all to people Read.

  • deserted

    Biking home from work in the hundred-degree heat yesterday afternoon, I couldn’t help noticing that the bike path was nearly deserted. There’s a trail that runs behind the office building where I work, and it t-bones the Capital City bike trail, which runs parallel to Willy Street and Atwood Avenue. It’s usually chockablock with bicycle Read.

  • warm

    Hot hot hot hot hot here today. Very hot. Which isn’t usually much of a problem as I work in an air-conditioned building all day long, but I went for a walk on my lunch break to stretch my legs and get some air and Wow! Was that a bad idea. No, really, it was Read.

  • percentages

    According to the web site of the National Weather Service, the probability of rain this morning is a mere twenty percent. Having just come back from my morning walk a bit more damp than I was when I left the house, I can assure you that the odds are a tad greater. Satellites, focused on Read.

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