Out side my window today is a dreary damp much to spring like day for the first part of January. Vermont like, I believe most anywhere on earth, can throw all sorts of weather at you. We are known to have as much as a fifty degree change in temps, with in twenty-four hours. I am however a fan of a good old hard winter, and this don’t look like that.
Ten years ago today [7 Jan 1998] we had here in New England a plain old January thaw. http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wice98.htm The difference being that the weather was just cold enough to cause a heavy ice build up in VT from Addison county north. Down here in little Bennington Co, we watched as all our snow melted away, and mud appeared everywhere. Much like this year we had, had a good snow pack, and it was looking like a nice winter, than in a blink all was washed away by a warm rain. For someone who gets truly depressed every spring when winter comes to an end, stuck in a little trailer with two young boys, I couldn’t have been any unhappier. I was than, and now thankful of the fact that we weren’t covered by the sheet of ice to the north of us.
However, to get back to today’s weather and our temp changes, I would hold up the difference four days can make. Back on the 3rd of this month we had a chilly below zero day, and two sub-zero nights. Oh to me, with a good a snow pack and snow shoes to be used, what happiness this sort of forecast creates I can’t begin to express. The only thing that would have made me happier was if snow had been coming. Now here I sit, with big green patches showing up in my lawn, and balmy 53 degrees. Heck you don’t even need a coat, I could have been out in short shelves [really I’m not kidding a t-shirt would be fine].
I know there are perks to these thaws and breaks in the winter snow and cold. It gave me a chance this morning to clean up the walkway of any ice that had built up, and to get rid of the snow that slid off the roof. The snow banks from plowing, which were shrinking my driveway have receded enough, that I can now see missing pieces of lawns which will have to put back in back in place in April or May. Also considering the high cost of heating our homes, this warm spell will cut the bill a tiny bit [although I contended that it is colder in the house, when it’s warmer outside during the winter].
I can’t however stop thinking about the cold temp, when the snow squeaks under your boots. I want a fresh clean snow pack to enjoy playing on. I love the feel of a biting wind on my face. I’m sorry that everyone doesn’t know how to enjoy a good old fashioned Vermont winter http://gonewengland.about.com/library/users/ucvtmoon.htm. If you don’t like winter, well that’s why God made FL. As for me I’ll try to take consultation in the fact that statistically January thaws don’t last all that long, and around here winter doesn’t really get rolling until February and March.
Ten years ago today [7 Jan 1998] we had here in New England a plain old January thaw. http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wice98.htm The difference being that the weather was just cold enough to cause a heavy ice build up in VT from Addison county north. Down here in little Bennington Co, we watched as all our snow melted away, and mud appeared everywhere. Much like this year we had, had a good snow pack, and it was looking like a nice winter, than in a blink all was washed away by a warm rain. For someone who gets truly depressed every spring when winter comes to an end, stuck in a little trailer with two young boys, I couldn’t have been any unhappier. I was than, and now thankful of the fact that we weren’t covered by the sheet of ice to the north of us.
However, to get back to today’s weather and our temp changes, I would hold up the difference four days can make. Back on the 3rd of this month we had a chilly below zero day, and two sub-zero nights. Oh to me, with a good a snow pack and snow shoes to be used, what happiness this sort of forecast creates I can’t begin to express. The only thing that would have made me happier was if snow had been coming. Now here I sit, with big green patches showing up in my lawn, and balmy 53 degrees. Heck you don’t even need a coat, I could have been out in short shelves [really I’m not kidding a t-shirt would be fine].
I know there are perks to these thaws and breaks in the winter snow and cold. It gave me a chance this morning to clean up the walkway of any ice that had built up, and to get rid of the snow that slid off the roof. The snow banks from plowing, which were shrinking my driveway have receded enough, that I can now see missing pieces of lawns which will have to put back in back in place in April or May. Also considering the high cost of heating our homes, this warm spell will cut the bill a tiny bit [although I contended that it is colder in the house, when it’s warmer outside during the winter].
I can’t however stop thinking about the cold temp, when the snow squeaks under your boots. I want a fresh clean snow pack to enjoy playing on. I love the feel of a biting wind on my face. I’m sorry that everyone doesn’t know how to enjoy a good old fashioned Vermont winter http://gonewengland.about.com/library/users/ucvtmoon.htm. If you don’t like winter, well that’s why God made FL. As for me I’ll try to take consultation in the fact that statistically January thaws don’t last all that long, and around here winter doesn’t really get rolling until February and March.
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