Sunday, January 31, 2010

AT LAST! End of January!

January is an unhappy month.  It's never festive enough after the Christmas Season, it's never EVER WARM enough.  And in Wyoming it's never Un-Windy enough.  You've never experienced wind until it's 10 below zero and you have a nice stiff breeze of 20 miles per hour.  Takes the skin right off your face, I tell yah!
 
And this year, January has not been SNOWY enough.  We've had virtually no snow except for this light dusting earlier in the month.  It has us all wondering if we aren't about to go back into drought.  I sure hope not.  Ten years of it was enough.
Cmon' February - warmer and maybe just maybe some moisture?

6 comments:

  1. Hey Merideth
    Just found your blog. I like it.

    When I lived in Laramie, we used to "joke" that all of the snow that landed in Laramie actually started over Evanston, and any snow that fell in Laramie actually landed in Omaha.

    Mathan

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  2. I'm not sure that's a joke Mathan. I believe all of that could possibly be true :)

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  3. My ex-wife (from Alabama) saw a picture of snow in the mountains piled six inches deep on the branches of a pine tree and remarked that the wind must blow something fierce up there to have drifted snow that deep even on the trees. I pointed out that that meant that there was NO wind. She thought I was pulling her leg.

    The last winter I worked outdoors in Laramie, April '79, I believe, we were putting siding up on the second floor of a house in a snow storm and witnessed lightning. Never saw anything like that before or since. Needless to say, we got off of the scaffolding.

    Mathan

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  4. I'll send you some of the rain that is passing over California. I hope it makes it up to your part of the country. We are having a lot of rain and snow, but they say it will not be enough to bring us up to where we should be as far as rainfall totals for the year. We have had such dry years. I hate that too. I can't imagine those cold temperatures. brrrrrrrrrrrr Take care!

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  5. Mathan - I've heard lightning in a snowstorm about twice in 45 years in Wyoming. Very strange thing don't you think? Putting up siding in Laramie in the winter? You are one tough dude :)

    Callie - your rain arrived in Western Wyoming but not in Northeast Central where I live. Shoot. Nice try though.

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  6. Not tough, broke. Building houses year-round in Laramie is what finally broke my thermostat and sent me south. '79 or '80 I was working and the foreman came up and told me to go home. I asked why and he said, it's ten below, you're white as a sheet and you just took your coat off. Go home, take a warm bath and soak until you warm up. Ever since, I have a lot of trouble warming up if I get chilled. I love the desert.

    %^)

    Mathan

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