Skateboarder gets caught in the snow - and other scenes from a hopeful but rather minor and insignificant fall
Tuesday, October 26, 2010 at 2:41PM 
It snowed a little bit yesterday. Not much, and today it appears to mostly be melting in the searing, unseasonable, 40 degree heat, but it was enough to give me a little hope.
Perhaps this guy can soon trade his skateboard in for a pair of skis.
I know, it doesn't look like it, but it is snowing in this picture. The temperature is 33 degrees. If you could see the full-size version of this, the cross that marks Grotto Iona would be clearly visible at the end of the visible part of road, by the west-bound car. You can somewhat make the cross out in the slideshow version, but to get the full impact, you need to see the full-rez version, which, unfortunately, I can't put in this blog.
By the time I reached this trail 10 minutes later, it was beginning to stick.
Our back yard.
The people who live in this house got cold, so they built a big fire outside and opened up the garage door to let the heat come in and circulate through the house. Personally, I can think of more efficient ways to heat a home.
Shrock Road.
Corner Study.
;)
Then I drive over the Little Su, where Rex, Ama and I hung out just the day before.
They say this is a La Nina year and that the La Nina is the strongest that it has ever been since the mid-50's. La Nina years are supposed to be cold. They are the years that the cold Arctic air masses that come from the north completely overpower the warm flow that comes up from the south, off the Pacific.
So far, though, it is warm - very warm for this time of year.
Even so, the frogs have buried themselves in the mud where they will remain frozen until breakup.
Reader Comments (5)
Actually, what I had heard was that La Nina years brought unusual cold to the Lower 48, which came from the Arctic, which was pushed out by warmer weather moving *in* to the Arctic. I'll have to go check...
I hope you haven't gotten any nastygrams from folks; I notice you've got comment moderation turned on.
It's "El Nino" that brings warm air to the north and cold to the south - such was the case last year. The comment moderation is not meant to screen out nastygrams but spam. I had been eliminating them as they came in, but one day a clever spammer dropped in scores of spam bombs, on many posts throughout the site. It was an awful pain to go through and remove them all and I did not want to go through it again.
Very warm here, too. Unseasonably so: 71° F. at 8:45pm. Whew! Got some global warming weather here in Massachusetts!
Walking the dogs last night, I commented to my wife that the trees are a long time dropping their leaves this year. Glorious color, but I guess we've had no frost hard enough to knock 'em down.
Bill, I should comment more often. I love your blog. But I have to admit the minor shift in sunshine that we experience here in the northeast is having its yearly effect on me. The trees are still turning and I know the snow is not far behind!
i remember last year, bill, when you also (correctly) ranted about the lingering arrival of winter in wasilla. that mankind has damaged the solar system! quite an evil feat. and yet if you read, for example, the recent nobel prize winners, we can see what fabulous intellects have done to make this a better planet. great photos, as always bill, whether by camera of phone. always a pleasure.