Smalltalk with James Robertson

We got significant snow yesterday - not like the huge storm back before Christmas, but 6 inches counts as the real deal around here - especially after the forecast calls for a dusting of 1-2 inches :)

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Looks like the storm tracked a bit further north than the original "1-2 inches" forecast called for:

Update: 5:30 PM, and it's still coming down pretty hard. I think they guessed wrong about the storm track...

The weather system that was socking the southeast yesterday has climbed far enough north to give us a snow storm:

Supposedly, we'll get 2-4 inches by late afternoon - which around here, is enough to keep us housebound. The road there is completely untreated :)

I realize that this is a computer model of a frontal system, but boy, that's the smoothest line for such a thing that I've ever seen:

With all that cold, rainy weather moving through Florida, my Dad has got to be pretty miserable - he moved down there to get away from winter and play golf at this time of year :)

Today's snow was good for a 2 hour school delay though:

And after the driveway clearing...

My dad has been silent about the nicer weather in Florida this week - he often likes to tell me how he's about to hit the golf course. Well... this week there's been less of that:

Honestly, that's really odd weather for the part of Florida he and my mom live in (the Space Coast region). Especially since it's predicted to hang around for nearly a week...

It's cold enough here in Maryland, but I took a look at the part of Florida where my parents live - it's 43 there now. I imagine that's screwing up my Dad's golf league :)

Meanwhile, I see where Orlando hit 21 F overnight, and that it'll go down to 28 tonight. I was in Disney on vacation in 1982, the last time that happened. I stayed a week over with my sister (we were both in college then, so had more time than my parents did) - every garden in Disney had been cleaned out and replanting was starting. I expect they'll have to do that again. That's got to be a huge pile of money....

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This is hardly Snowmageddon, but we still have more snow that you usually see in December around here:

Now, off to borrow the snow blower...