do not taunt happy fun La Niña

[ilanarama]

I had no idea that my heartfelt letter to the global atmospheric circulation back in November would have such dramatic results.



More photos on my Flickr page. Skiing tomorrow, I think.

Comments

[thalia]

Could you maybe work on getting Chicago a nice, mild summer? You obviously have way more influence with the weather gods than I do....

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Working at the National Center for Atmospheric Research has its perks!

[sdwolfpup.livejournal.com]

Holy cow that's a lot of snow. They kept telling us we'd get snow showers all weekend and nothing. For which I'm grateful, ultimately. Heh.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

I'm stunned. Old-timers say it was last like this in 1993 (when I lived in Colorado, but not this part of it) and before that, in the late 70s.

[alembicresearch.livejournal.com]

Yahoo!
Must be interesting to live in a place where it snows!
(I've always lived where you run up to the snow for a day,
and when you get tired of it, drive back home).

We've been getting lots of rain here ...
maybe a little over the average ... so all the
Californians complain about "how horrible it is not
to se the sun for 2 days", etc.
(in the same way a Seattlite might complain about not
seeing the sun for 2 months).

Yesterday morning I was in a coffee shop reading the paper
and watching a heavy cloud burst dump outside for a while.

Just as I finish the Sunday paper, it stopped, so I walked
down the street the few block away where I'd parked, and got
to enjoy that beautiful moment right after a cloud burst
when its sunny clear blue sky on one side of the street,
and torrents of water rushing into down the gutters.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

I like it! It's pretty! It's meteorology in action!

[traveller42.livejournal.com]

Now I know who is hogging all the snow! ;^>

We've been getting a lot of snow, then warming up and melting it all.

Warm air + snow = Fog

Then big temperature drop leading to freezing rain turning to snow.

And then the cycle starts again.

Envious in Michigan.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Ordinarily we get warm weather to melt it out, too, although since the air is so arid here we don't get fog, and the temperature usually drops so quickly when a storm comes in that we rarely get freezing rain unless it's a late-spring or early-fall storm. I'm loving the snow-pileup, though!