It's snowing. In Houston.

West-central PA got an inch of snow last Thursday night. We got another dusting last night with 3-5 inches expected later this week. Let it be known, whom ever decided to cancel fall in exchange for an extra 5 weeks of winter; you suck.

At least I was able to rake and bag the leaves from the front yard. The official trash bag count is 40 30gal bags and 7 39gal bags. The back yard is about 25% covered and I don't know if the weather is going to allow for raking them up. It's likely, weather permitting, the lawn mower will be used to obliterate them into a thick layer of mulch.

We hit 40 in Anchorage yesterday. Back to teens by the end of the week. The Pineapple Express you know.

We are still in the mid 60s. The front should blow through today and put us in the mid 50s for the rest of the week. 

Grtechguy said:

Flurries here, but...no one is noticing.

It does seem a bit early for snow like this (to me).

70F , clear but air is bad from the fires up in Malibu , 

A few new fires started up today , small ones and the helicopters did water drops and put the large areas out.....

The next bad thing will be the rains and the mudslides  hopefully not as bad as Santa Barbara last year , 

Stay safe 

Snow, rain, snow,rain here in upstate NY.   More snow above 1000 ft.

Guess it's time to get the snow blower out.

llysgennad said:

Cold in Kansas, 16F this morning with a dusting of snow again. Our first snow was Oct 14th, which nearly set a record for earliest. We've already had about 5 inches this fall.

 

WTF?? I had NO idea Kansas was that cold. I'll just take that off my list right now.

Here in Atlanta, well, you know that Guns and Roses song? "Nothing lasts forever, even cold November rain?" We're getting the sort of weather that inspired that line. I'm not sure if we will run out of November or rain first.

ultraclyde said:

llysgennad said:

Cold in Kansas, 16F this morning with a dusting of snow again. Our first snow was Oct 14th, which nearly set a record for earliest. We've already had about 5 inches this fall.

 

WTF?? I had NO idea Kansas was that cold. I'll just take that off my list right now.

Kansas weather is...fickle. Actual weather screen shot from LAST YEAR.

But really, it's lovely here. I've started calling it the New Hawaii.

South Central PA is forecast for some sort of crappy mix on Thursday. I've gone from last week thinking "hmm, I should THINK about putting the snow tires on SOON," to this week "I NEED to put them on NOW!"

We've had a few flurries but nothing sticking yet. Just below 30 most nights and lots of freezing rain. 

I still have Windows to plastic over. It's such a weird time of year. Need the pellet stove to keep from freezing, but even on its lowest setting it's to damn hot in here to have everything fully sealed up. 

Lots of cold all over. Anyone remember the frozen Midwest winters of 1976/ 1977? They were talking about an ice age coming back then. 

49 degrees and partly cloudy here in beautiful Redmond, WA.

Got about 6" over the weekend. Finally broke above freezing today with some nice warm sun. Suppose to be 54 tomorrow and then more snow this weekend. Colorado has had a lot of snow already. The resorts are loving it. Hope for good skiing this year. 

mazdeuce - Seth said:

It just started showing on the north side of Houston. Just weird little snow chunk things, but snow here this early is super weird. How is everyone up north doing?

I flew to Dallas today.  It was colder there than here in NC, where it is currently abnormally cold.  My rental car* had iced up mirrors.

*a Charger with the Super Track Pack or whatever.  It was kinda neat.  I wanted to hate the 4000lb beast but it impressed me.

dropstep said:

This part of Ohio is dry. We had one snow were like half an inch stuck too the grass. I moved here expecting more snow and we get less then MD these days. I love snow

You need to have moved closer to the lake, over to the east of the Cuyahoga, where the shoreline starts going north and makes a kind of natural skatepark ramp for the Canadian air that picked up a ton of moisture from blowing east across the lake.

Our weather forecasts (Cleveland) can be funny.  A light dusting on the west side, feet of snow on the east side.

It's also not unusual to drive south across a panoramic view of white everywhere, then cross the divide between the Great Lakes and Ohio River watersheds, and then it's green everywhere.

Pete Gossett said:

Mndsm said:

80 and sunny.  We might get some fall this weekend. 

I really should have pushed for FL over MS...

It’s supposed to drop to 33 tonight, but I’ll be surprised if it dips that low at our house. 

The weather is nice sometimes and there are many grm friendly people.