We are definitely getting hit with this storm. Moderate snow coming down (expected to get 2" to 4", which isn’t too bad), but the temperatures are dropping. When I got up this morning, it was 29°F. It is now 11°F and windy. Fun times. If it’s going to be as cold and windy as they’re predicting tomorrow, I’ll probably go outside and go for a short walk in the neighborhood just to confirm that I have no desire to ever try and climb Everest. (Not that I’m a mountain climber at all to begin with.)
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Yup. We dropped from 45 around 8 am to 17 degrees around 1 pm. Winds are 25-30 mph with some gusts up to 40. I hate cold weather to start with, so my plan is to stay put.
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You’re in Texas, correct? Isn’t 17° pretty much unheard of for you?
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Dallas. About 75 miles South of Oklahoma. Our norm this time of year is usually highs of high 40s, maybe low 50s and lows in the 30s, or maybe high 20s.
We do dip below 20° from time to time (like the crazy winter storm form last year), but it is usually pretty uncommon to get below 20°. But combine that with the high winds and it claims it feels like -2°, which is definitely not what we are used to. Ha.
Where are you again?
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I’m in St. Louis, but I have some familiarity with Dallas. A college buddy of mine lived there, and I’d get down there from time to time. I can’t remember where his parents lived – it was in a pretty nice area, but I don’t think it was one of the park cities. My buddy and his wife rented a place in Deep Ellum for a bit until they got tired of the noise and crowds. Then they moved to a house around White Rock Lake before a job took him out of the area.
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Yup, Deep Ellum for the most part is the hipster, college hang out, indie band area. It certainly gets noisy. I rarely get down near White Rock lake but oddly enough I was just near there earlier this week for a Christmas Party.
I took my kids to St Louis about 7 or 8 years ago to the Children’s Museum in downtown St. Louis. Man that place is awesome. I want to take them back.
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It’s called City Museum, and, yes, it is a great place. They add stuff on a fairly regular basis, so it would be a new experience for you. The city actually has a lot of great things for families to do. If you ever get back here, the first round is on me.
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City Museum, yes, ha. That’s what I meant. I loved climbing around to the planes outside. The bus on the roof wasn’t quite open. And if I make it up that way I’ll let you know.
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I have just read about the storms in the New York. They look pretty vicious. Are you OK where you are?
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It was intense for a lot of NY. It completely bypassed us though. All but the rain and VERY high winds. Lots of places close by lost power from falling trees taking down lines. But, that was nothing compared to the avalanche of snow that fell over most of the area. I sort of feel like I was living in the cone of silence 
We are in this little pocket that somehow got bypassed by most of it … miraculously.
Whew!
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We got the wind and buckets of rain. It finished off with a nice coating of fluffy snow so we had a white Christmas (even though I had to shovel in sub-zero windchill, it’s ok)
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As of today we are over the 30° mark again and since we had so much rain over the past week … no snow. It’s all gone but tiny little patches here and there. I’m quite sure that will change and everyone will warn me Snowmageddon is coming. 
But, I just thought I would share. It’s just an odd Winter so far.
47° yesterday and 52° today. 
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Yeah, we’ve had some spring like weather. Supposed to be like that for a few days before the cold comes back. Half of this city is sick … probably from the wild temperature swings. Windows open one day, bundled up the next …
60 degrees and sunny — which is not the usual for January 16 in the Midwest. Unfortunately, I have too much going on to play hooky and be outside enjoying the weather.
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We’ve been getting the spillover from California’s atmospheric river rain and snow. I was shoveling snow earlier today. Some of the piles are just over five feet high on either side of our driveway — so high that our snowblower has trouble throwing the snow over the top.
I just checked the ski resorts at the top of the Cottonwood canyons. The snow base is around 150 inches, with nearly 400 inches of snow so far this winter. If this keeps up, come May, when it melts, we’ll have some serious flooding in the valleys. We’ve been in a prolonged drought, though, so nobody’s complaining (yet).
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Whatever you do, don’t get tricked into a dare to lick a metal flag pole when it’s that cold.
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One only does that once in a lifetime
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So NOTdigging this wind. The cold is one thing but freight train winds creep me out. And they just don’t stop. A gust actually creaked the house a little bit ago.
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