Day 3 - 36 -- Yet Another Winter Storm

Today was spent running errands and meeting for future planning. The rain poured all afternoon. Without rain gear, I would have been soaked just between the grocery store and the car. Groceries were rather wet from the trip between the car to the house and the reusable bags had to be hung to dry. The temperature was far cooler than yesterday when it was in the positive double digits -- today it was single digits very near freezing. Not a big wind, but enough to make cheeks feel a bit cold during the five minute walk to Main Street.  Forecasters are saying that in the transition to snow by about midnight, we will go through ice pellets and freezing rain. There is a chance that that will be mainly freezing rain with large accretion of 1 to 2 cm -- not millimeters, but centimeters. I fear for the trees that were damaged last weekend and haven't been attended to yet in the major cleanup. There is a distinct chance of further power outages, just as many people have gotten used to having the heat on again and being able to cook.

I chose to do this blog a bit earlier today, just in case the power goes down and I can't communicate with you all. The song that seemed to work best in my mind has lyrics that discuss meteorological events like nor'easters -- all that and by a favourite singer/songwriter/pianist <smile>.  Enjoy!

Note the visual for the audio below is the nautical warning flag -- storm warning.

Stormfront -- Billy Joel