How's the weather?

Cold! Snow on the ground. Brrr.

Cold! Snow on the ground. Brrr.

I hope this is the last of it for this year!

It was sunny and trying to snow at the same time this afternoon!
Feels very cold.

I'd click the like button, but.... ewww. cold.

We made it up to 38F with sun today. Still snow on the ground. Going to snow again Friday. Last year we actually had snow in May, which I'm told was a little freakish even for here. So I'm not even going to say "hopefully Friday is the last" because it'll bite me. 

Not a single snowflake here! I was hoping to wake up to Frosty and Rudolph playing snowballs in the garden. Nothing!

I’m in the NW of England, on the Irish Sea coast.

If anyone has any snow can they send me some please.

We had some snow in the Highlands, but it wasn't forecast. It's bloody freeeeezing though!

Freezing here too. I've just had to defrost the bird baths for the second time this morning!

Freezing here too. I've just had to defrost the bird baths for the second time this morning!

I'm currently freezing too. Oh wait... it's because I'm in North Carolina and my kids have the central air on.

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I'm currently freezing too. Oh wait... it's because I'm in North Carolina and my kids have the central air on.

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Haha! Have fun! What's the outside temperature? 

Haha! Have fun! What's the outside temperature? 

It is cooler today with a high of 15. 2 days ago it was about 23.

But they still have the air on. BUT they are at work right now so I just turned the heating on. My Raynauds hands suffer in this temperature.

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Absolutely beautiful day out. Took a long time coming home from the dentist (still can't feel part of my face!) and drove through the country. 56F, blue sky, puffy white clouds. Got me thinking I'd go over to the garden after work tomorrow to start prepping for spring planting. 

Only to get home and find the TV weatherman saying a fast-moving, substantial cold front was bringing arctic air, freezing rain, possibly a thunderstorm, 50mph winds, and snow squalls this evening.  I am looking southwest out my window and can see an ominous gray line of incoming weather along the horizon. with the sun being blotted out by the gray as it gets taller in my window. Oh, well. We've got oil lamps, candles, and I'm going to go boil up a kettle of water to put in the thermos. On the good side,  it's not supposed to hit until after 8pm now. Initially it was forecast for 7pm, when the daughter finishes work for the day. I popped out for a couple of gallons of milk, grabbed a Jersey Mike's sub for our supper, and put the car in the car barn for the duration of the storm.

High tomorrow is to be in the low 30Fs, with very windy conditions. I may regret the car barn part in the morning, when I have to hike down there to it to go to work. But at least this way no tree branches or unsecured construction materials (there's a building site not far from us) will go through my car windshield in the car barn!    (Knocking on wood.)

So it's been cold. Then warmish.Cold. Rainy. Windy. Cold. Warmish.  Wednesday it was in the 50s and beautiful so I got some work done in the garden (FINALLY) after work. Pulled most of the wood chips off the garlic bed (where they had been mulching the plants over the winter) and encouraged the little green sprouts to pop up and get some sun. Piled all the chips in a big heap. Big heap. Like 4ft x 3ft by 2 ft high. 

Thursday it rained so no gardening. Had been planning for a week to spend today out there as I have the day off from work and only had to take the car in for an oil change and then go to the optometrist later this afternoon.  So, blue skies. Temp is in the low 40fs. That should be fine... except we have 30 - 50mph wind gusts out there!  Which makes it a bit too brisk for gardening in an open field. Snuck out a bit ago to go pick up a pizza and was almost literally blown over at one point. Definitely breezy.  And there's that pile of nice fluffy woodchips that were eventually going to be pathways, piled up in the middle of my garden. With 30-50mph winds. No cover on the chips. 

OOPS! 

Hopefully it'll just be in my plot and none of my neighbors'.     I have a chickenwire fence around the garden, so that should stop some of it. But it's gonna be a mess to clean up if they're still even in there, on Monday (my next day off - we're out of town tomorrow and Sunday).

It's supposed to be close to 80F later this week.  There is NO planning for weather anymore!

OMG - Stuck in traffic for an hour and a half (to go six miles) and the car said it was 93F outside! In early April.    Here.

Never did find out why the traffic was backed up. Was able to get to a back way home and drove clear sailing once I did.

OMG - Stuck in traffic for an hour and a half (to go six miles) and the car said it was 93F outside! In early April.    Here.

Yikes!

The same today (sans traffic). Should be 20 degrees cooler tomorrow, then in the 50s-60s next week.

Of course, when we fired up the A/C last night.... nada. it was broken. Thankfully the repair guy was here first thing this morning, but really?

There are times when I REALLY miss Scotland. And having to put a light jacket on in the middle of the day in the summertime.  The weather there just suited us sooooo well.

~sigh~