If the polar vortex really kicks into high gear this year, it could be some very dramatic weather this year. Fortunately, energy prices seem to be coming down. New York State and the Northeast have become very dependent on natural gas both electricity and heat, and in an extended cold spell could prove very problematic if reserves run low like happened in Western NY during the 1977 blizzard.
I wonder how many more weeks it will before they start spreading satan’s dust on the roads, supposedly to counter the actions of old man winter ? I hate road salt.
The snow is rapidly disappearing from Western NY and the Finger Lakes. But we may have to wait a while later in the Eastern NY and the Adirondacks for snow to disappear.
The average temperature for the weekend is a high 44 degrees with a low of 26 degrees. Saturday will get up to 45 degrees, but Sunday the cold blast comes back… a high of 31 degrees and low of 9 degrees. The cold doesn’t want to give up until it finally runs of out of gas, as spring creeps back.
Today is a cold and snowy morning. The wind was whipping around at the bus stop, and the best way to describe the roads is greasy this morning. Much better then last night, when the roads were icy from the freezing rain and sleet that fell around 6 PM last night. But even so this morning, the bus is doing some interesting side-by-side motion on the expressway. I believe they call that fish-tailing. The ramp onto I-787 was slowed to a crawl as everybody drove slow with the bad roads.
I think this was the worst storm all year for bad roads, even if the actual amount of accumulation of snow wasn’t that bad. It just was a lot of ice, sleet, and freezing rain combined with some pretty serious winds.
Winter, as they say. But if you don’t count today, we are down to 7 days until calender spring. A week from Friday starts calender spring, but knowing how this winter is going, it probably will snow on the first day of spring.
Winter is back for another punch. But I made it home and safely back to work, so I can't complain that much. Getting closer to spring too.
It looks like Wednesday will be a high of 44 degrees. After the cold weather of recent, that seems almost balmy out.
The cold of the past winter has brought back an old past time on the Hudson River -- ice sailing.