“…and in tonight’s weather, cloudy and cold, with a chance of snow in the North and snow flurries or even light snow in the South.”
I beg your pardon, Wisconsin?
Snow?
In October?
It’s not so much that I was just in California where, as my instructor put it, there is but one season: Spring. It’s not so much that its cold and that it might just snow and that the ground might…MIGHT…just retain it long enough to be vaguely visible the next day.
It’s that I was promised…PROMISED…repeatedly by my friends, and in-laws, acquaintances and total strangers passing in the streets that this doesn’t normally happen.
I was told that two years ago, when the first snowfall happened around Thanksgiving. The snowfall then proceeded to blow away previous winter records that year.
I was told that last year, when the snow was not quite as early nor quite as ferocious, but the winter chill definitely set in early and hard.
And now, a possible snowfall hard enough to graduate from a “flurry” might just hit us overnight.
I tell you, I can hear my in-laws now. ”You know Dan, it’s not normally like this. We bought cross-c0untry skis ten years ago, and have barely had the opportunity to use them. This is very unusual weather.”
Let’s review: my sample size is three years. And in all three years, the weather has been weird. As an American, I don’t believe in large sample sizes with comprehensive facts and figures leading to a logical conclusion. I go with my gut.
It snows early and often in this state. Deal with it. Put it on your brochures.
If you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go put some more pellets in the stove.
