Weather Reporting: January 4

On the weather front around the world:

• In Northern Ireland, Mummymac’s weather report said snow, but she didn’t quite believe it. Her children are very glad that she was wrong.
• In Illinois, Kim reported that it was too cold for Alice the Camel ….. and just a little dusty, too boot. She also links to a handy-dandy Celsius to Fahrenheit converter.
• It was so cold in Birmingham, Alabama that Ann’s pipes froze.
• Jen reports on cold in Pennsylvania, frozen iquanas in Florida, and childhood weather memories.
• Violet’s own weather is cloudy and mild, but she has a collection of webcams around the world (a web camboree, she calls it) so you can actually see the weather just about anywhere you please.
  
• Pam’s south central Pennsylvania forecast might allow her to take the motorcycle for a spin next Tuesday. (I’m jealous!)
• Kevin says it’s supposed to rain in southern Minnesota. What will that do to the twelve inches of snow? (I’m not jealous!)
• Annette lives in Ontario. She tells us what her temps mean in practical terms.
• Candyinsierras comments on a type of ice fog called pogonip:

  Sometimes we have a white fog of ice crystals that forms on surfaces a bit like hoarfrost. It is called Pogonip, which comes from a Shoshone or Paiute word for ice cloud, or white death. It is very beautiful. We don’t see it very often, but when we do, it looks like a fairy land of icy fog. It was called white death because breathing in the ice crystals could be eventually harmful.

• And I posted on hoarfrost.
• Update, Saturday, January 5: Darlene reports that it is “raining wildly in southern California!” Her beagle is working furiously in the garage, building an ark to save himself and anyone else in the family who will heed his warnings. At least I think that’s what she said.

Wow! That’s quite the collection, isn’t it?

You can join in this month’s weather fun, too, you know. You’ll find the details for participating here, and if you send me your link before Saturday night, I’ll add it to this post. If you send it after that, expect to see it in next Tuesday’s weather report.

If you sent me a link and I missed it, please let me know, okay? 

Comments

[Mummymac]

Thanks for doing all the work Rebecca, it sure does make the world a smaller place :-)

[darlene]

Anyone interested in building an ark? It is raining wildly in southern California! My poor beagle hates it!

[TG]

You've been at your new URL for. . . ummm. . . nearly a year. And I have FINALLY updated my blogroll link for you. Just 'cause it has taken this long doesn't mean I haven't been reading, though!

And here is to another year of encouraging theology-for-girls blogging!

[Kim in ON]

Rebecca, here is my contribution to Tuesday's weather report!

http://theupwardcall.blogspot.com/2008/01/where-oh-where-has-bright-warm-sun-gone.html

[candyinsierras]

In my part of the world today, we have many inches ofnew snow, a levee that broke to the east flooding a town, no church since we drive an hour to attend and chains are required, and so perhaps I will snowshoe at a local park.