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bracing for impact

Chris — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:21:43 +0000

Rhiannon and I have been getting our weather news through our phones, namely the built in weather application, which looks like this:

It provides us a general snapshot of the forecasted trends and gives us an idea of what kind of outfit to get Brooklynn into for the day. If we really want to get granular, we do this¹:

Hourly, up to the next 12 hours. So, we don’t hear about the NEXT BIG STORM!!! that the news channel meteorologists love to get worked up about. We just get a calm forecast with chance of precipitation²

We don’t always know what the systems will bring more than a day or two out. Things are pretty fluid in weather, so I don’t make plans more than a day ahead of time anyway.

It does seem that if something big is going to happen, we hear about from other people. This is kind of my default filter for news – if it’s important enough, someone will tell me about it. So, I’ve been getting emails from work and our daycare and people in the office are talking about the NEXT BIG STORM!!!

The prediction³ is 10-18 inches over the next 24 hours. Yesterday, it was 6-10. This morning, 7-12. Now, they think the metro will get over a foot. It hasn’t actually started snowing yet, but maybe when it finally does, forecasts will be even higher⁴.

That’s a lot of snow for us. We missed the last big storm over Christmas, so part of me is kind of hoping we get it. Part of me is also hoping we don’t, because if I’m at work during the storm, it means I get to shovel when I get home. We have a sloped driveway, and at 34 weeks pregnant, there is no way I’ll agree to Rhiannon going outside to do any sort of snow removal.

If you don’t hear from us, I guess it means the snow broker our internets.

That, or I’m just not posting anything new, like normal.

If we want to depress ourselves, we just look at the weather for Honolulu. ↩
Notice the 100% chance of snow peaking in there at 8pm tonight. ↩
Yes, I did go and look at the news channel meteorologist forecast for this. ↩
I will offer a 100% guaranteed prediction that in the next three days we will get between 0 and 4 feet of snow. ↩

no like it

Chris — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 01:26:02 +0000

We have a winter storm warning in effect until tomorrow evening with 12 inches of snow possible. Yesterday it was a record high of 80 degrees out.

On Rhiannon’s drive home today, it was starting to cool off and rain. She mentioned to Brooklynn that by tomorrow, we might have snow.

Brooklynn responded: No snow! No like it! No thank you snow!

Regardless of what we tell her, how much we say Mommy and Daddy really like to play in the snow, she wants nothing to do with the white stuff. I think that’s her way of telling us she wants to live farther south or closer to a coast.

If she doesn’t like snow, I’d hate to see what she’d think of earthquakes and hurricanes.

this is summer

Chris — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:31:25 +0000

I sometimes complain about how hot it is and all the yard work that comes with summer, but spending time around our yard in the evening with a kid who loves to be outside might make summer my new favorite season.

why we love summer

Chris — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:10:42 +0000

Every time we visit somewhere tropical, I have to find reasons to justify why we live where it snows and gets cold for half the year.

Days like today do very little to make me think snow is a good idea.

(Image credit to Rhiannon)