Weather Reporting: January 18

I haven’t written much about our current local weather during this month because we’ve had boring regular old winter weather. But I’m making up for that by posting this little shot of our current conditions (Well, they would be current conditions if it were still 10:24AM EST. Sorry. I got sidetracked.), and in Fahrenheit, too, for all those who refuse to embrace the inevitable. 

 

Yes, today’s a  day I’m glad I don’t live in Chicagoland.

• Kim is in Chicagoland, and she calls the temps there “bone chilling.”  I’m pretty sure I’ve already told this story here, but I’ll tell it again anyway. When I lived near Chicago as a child, the temp dipped to -10F once and my mom kept us home from school. Minnesotans and Yukoners think that’s funny, but their cold really is colder than our cold—damper, windier—and “bone chilling” is exactly right.
• How could I not link to this? John Piper says the current cold in Minnesota is A Kind of Cold You Don’t Play With. “We receive this,” he says, “from the Lord’s hand.” 

  He sends out his command to the earth;
  his word runs swiftly.
  He gives snow like wool;
  he scatters hoarfrost like ashes.
  He hurls down his crystals of ice like crumbs;
  who can stand before his cold?
  He sends out his word, and melts them;
  he makes his wind blow and the waters flow.
  (Psalm 147:15-18)

• Tricia is in northern California, or what she calls “the other California,” where it’s sunny and wonderful.
• I wrote a post on The Year With No Summer, which, of course, would never happen in northern California, where it’s never winter and always Christmas.
• Update: Brrr! on Sunday in Pennsylvania where Pam lives.
• Update: Breaking news: There’s snow in Alabama.
• Update: And now it’s colder still in Chicagoland. Good weather to stay home and putter around in your PJs.
  

You can be a weather geek, too. You’ll find the details for participating here. If you send me a link to your weather related post before tomorrow (Saturday) evening, I’ll add your link to this post. If you send it after that, expect to see your post linked in this coming Tuesday’s weather report.

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