Archives for December 2010

Now, this is how we like our snow here in Raleigh.  It’s not supposed to stick around for long…if it snows at all.  A week ago, it was snowing hard and fast and piling up on our streets.  But then yesterday our high temperature was in the 60s.  With an overnight low last night of 50 and our weekend temps predicted to be in the 60s both days, this mess is history.

Goodbye, snow.  And don’t hurry back now, ya hear?

That’s Life in Raleigh.

Well, the forecasters got it right.  We did get snow on Christmas Day and more snow on December 26th.  A lot of snow.  Maybe 8 inches or so, which is a huge amount for Raleigh.  And it’s still cold. Today’s high is forecast to be 35 degrees or so, and tomorrow we may hit 38 after dropping into the teens tonight.

There is hope ahead, though!!  By the weekend, our temperatures are forecast to be in the 60s again.  It would be really nice to be already done with winter around the first of January.  To be fair, I think we’ve done our time.

In the meantime, we’ll enjoy another day at home with the family. Movies, music, games, and a warm kitchen with heavenly smells. We need to finish our snowman, too, and take our sleds out on the hills of the cemetery.  There’s a lot to do before our normal temperatures arrive!

That’s Life in Raleigh.

So it’s still too cold here in Raleigh, N.C.  Not only is it still too cold, the weather experts are now calling for snow here on Christmas Day!!  We haven’t seen snowfall on Christmas Day, they say, since 1947, but this could be our lucky year.  And not only are they calling for snow Christmas Day, Christmas night, and December 26th,  Accuweather.com is even predicting that it will be a “two-loafer” storm.

Never heard of a two-loafer storm??  Well, here in the South, when any amount of snowflakes are predicted, we stampede the grocery stores to buy loaves of bread and milk.  Why?  We just do.  Well, I actually didn’t mean “we;” I meant people around here do.  (We in the Callahan household are more likely to make a run for beer, chips, and movies.)  Now, you can’t actually blame us Southerners for trying to prepare by stocking our pantries, because when it does snow we’re pretty much trapped at home.  Our community doesn’t need to invest in lots of snow-removal equipment that would just become rusty from disuse year after year–normally.  Our citizens don’t need to invest in snow tires or chains that would rarely be used.  So we rush to the store, stock up on bread and milk, and stay home in wet, wintry weather.  We enjoy the slower pace, family time, and have all the makings for French toast.

The way this winter is going, I may soon be saying “Life just like in Canada,” or something along those lines.  Hope not.

That’s Life in Raleigh.(I think)

It’s still too cold for December in Raleigh, N.C.  While it’s not yet time to call for breaking the coldest-winter-on-record mark that we set last year, our local meteorologists have declared that we have just finished the coldest two weeks in December here in Raleigh. That’s not news to us.  I bet we’ve also set a record for how many times so far this December we’ve had snow/sleet/other stuff we don’t like around here.

We just had another round of wintry precipitation yesterday.  Even though it didn’t stick this time, we still have traces of our previous rounds!  My neighbor’s snowman is still hanging around, even though he’s now just a lump.  I hope he’s gone soon.  Enough is enough.

That’s Life in Raleigh.

It’s too cold for Raleigh, North Carolina, in the first week of December! Today our high temperature is forecast to reach 35 degrees.  Oh, plus we need to factor in what has to be gale-force winds.  What?!?  And you don’t have to look very hard to find leftover bits of snow on the ground from Saturday’s dusting. Our normal high for today is 55 degrees.

Looks like we’re off to a good start if the goal is breaking last year’s coldest-winter-on-record mark.

That’s Life in brrr-Raleigh.