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So, I got up this morning at 7. Fortunately, Scott woke up and woke me, because we forgot to set the alarm. Which is okay, 7 is about when I want to wake up and I didn't have trouble getting up. Fortunate, since I had to be to work at 8.
Got all my stuff together, grabbed a large container of warm water. It's March. The Pacific Northwest - the valley area, where I am - does not generally get this cold in March. There was frost all over the cars and grass, but the driveway was a mix of frost and liquid - anything deeper than a surface coating was liquid - even though it's in the shade. So I was pretty darned sure the main roads would be just fine.
After I convinced my car to open (grrr! - stupid frost) and suchlike, I discovered I was correct; the roads were clear. As evidence they had not been a while before, however, most of the way to work I was driving on a bit of road sand. (The road I work off of is not important enough to get sanded early, if at all. It was, unsurprisingly, free of grit.)
So I'm here. According to the radio, it's 32 degrees out. Also according to the radio, there's a snow advisory, and snow is coming across the coast range now. Snow showers expected this morning, hail showers expected this afternoon, snow accumulating to a couple inches above 500 feet and to an inch below it.
So far, it's bright and sunny, and the high today is given as 40, so I have trouble believing at least the "accumulation" part of it. If I'm wrong, oh well, it ought to be entertaining. We have a bunch of employees from out of town in the office today for training, plus someone in the area is coming in to interview with one of them at about 5. So if the weather gets obnoxious, it could lead to an interesting circus effect.
Got all my stuff together, grabbed a large container of warm water. It's March. The Pacific Northwest - the valley area, where I am - does not generally get this cold in March. There was frost all over the cars and grass, but the driveway was a mix of frost and liquid - anything deeper than a surface coating was liquid - even though it's in the shade. So I was pretty darned sure the main roads would be just fine.
After I convinced my car to open (grrr! - stupid frost) and suchlike, I discovered I was correct; the roads were clear. As evidence they had not been a while before, however, most of the way to work I was driving on a bit of road sand. (The road I work off of is not important enough to get sanded early, if at all. It was, unsurprisingly, free of grit.)
So I'm here. According to the radio, it's 32 degrees out. Also according to the radio, there's a snow advisory, and snow is coming across the coast range now. Snow showers expected this morning, hail showers expected this afternoon, snow accumulating to a couple inches above 500 feet and to an inch below it.
So far, it's bright and sunny, and the high today is given as 40, so I have trouble believing at least the "accumulation" part of it. If I'm wrong, oh well, it ought to be entertaining. We have a bunch of employees from out of town in the office today for training, plus someone in the area is coming in to interview with one of them at about 5. So if the weather gets obnoxious, it could lead to an interesting circus effect.
