More unusual weather this morning. As I look out the window while I type this is is snowing. Now for a southern hemisphere lad like me snow in October is a very odd thing anyway, but even for the locals it's odd to get a snow storm this early in the Autumn (as I insist on calling it when nobody else is around).
It's supposed to be a doosie, too, with a foot or more of heavy, wet snow predicted all across the northeastern United States (and I presume into Canada, too, even though to watch the TV you'd think the weather stops at the border). It hasn't started settling yet, but with that much falling it can only be a matter of time before the landscape turns white.
Talk about a cold snap, we only got our first frost yesterday morning and already the snow is piling on. There are still flowers in bloom in our little garden!
It will likely all be melted by tomorrow afternoon, though, and it really is a cold snap so daytime temperatures will probably be up a little again once this sorts itself out. For the moment, though, Mrs Walles and I will just have to wrap up warm when we venture out later, and add salt to our shopping list to spread on the driveway if the snow turns out to be more persistent than forecast.
Plus it is lovely to watch the snow falling. Unlike some jaded souls here who, thanks to many hard winters, have come to treat snow as just an inconvenience, I still get excited by a big dump of snow. Especially one that I don't have to shovel the next morning!
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