Wordy Wednesday

The last few days have been bitterly cold. We got hit with an "Arctic Blast" from the north and..ya...FREEZING! Its been in the negative teen's with the windchill's. Sunday night through Tuesday morning we had snow and blizzards, we got around 8-10" out there of snow (and they are expecting another 6-10" for us by Sunday). Right now as I'm posting this at 9:30pm Tuesday night according to the Weather Channel its -5°F (-20C). They are warning people not to go out of their houses unless extremely needed. The schools have already canceled for Wednesday (and its still Tuesday as I write this, and we've known since around 2pm this afternoon) because the buses wont be able to run right, its so cold that diesel engines can turn to goo right now. Thank goodness Seamus was already off school for the week (preschools and Elem. was out for the whole week for Thanksgiving break), I would not want to drag them out at 7:30 in the morning to take him to school.

Wordless Wednesday: Day at the Park

Cold

What in the world happened to summer?! It went from being horribly hot 2weeks ago, in the high 90's, then last week to the mid 70's and now the last 2days its been in the mid 60's. At night its been in the low 40's. Freaking cold! The weather says its supposed to get back up to the mid 80's at the end of the week, we'll see. I'm not saying the rain we've gotten hasnt' been welcome but dang its cold!

Snow, snow, snow

Last weekend they said we were going to get dumped on, we only ended up with about 3" and half melted then froze. The temps are what was bad, -12 or more with the Windchill.
Monday they said that we were in a Winter Advisory for Wed, expecting 4-7" of snow but we laughed at it. Then late yesterday it was turned into a Winter Storm Warning. I still laughed. Woke up at 8:45am this morning and there was about 2" of snow on the ground, I checked the weather channels website and there was a huge storm over us. I just checked it again at 6:40pm PST and the same storm is over us, hasn't moved sense this morning. I'd guess theres about 4-5" out there now, and the NOAA and NWS and our local news just changed the expected snow fall to

...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM PST
THURSDAY...

A WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM PST THURSDAY.

SNOWFALL OF MODERATE TO HEAVY INTENSITY WILL CONTINUE THROUGH
THURSDAY. 10 TO 15 INCHES OF SNOW ACCUMULATION NEAR SPOKANE...TO
NEAR 18 INCHES FOR COEUR D'ALENE AND MANY OF THE TOWNS SITUATED
IN THE VALLEYS OF THE NORTHERN IDAHO AND THE NORTHEAST MOUNTAINS.
11 TO 18 INCHES ARE EXPECTED OVER THE MOUNTAINS.

A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW ARE
EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. THIS WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY HAZARDOUS OR
IMPOSSIBLE.

THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...COEUR D'ALENE...
POST FALLS...HAYDEN...SANDPOINT...RATHDRUM...BONNERS FERRY...
PRIEST RIVER...COLVILLE...DEER PARK...CHEWELAH...NEWPORT...KETTLE
FALLS...SPOKANE...CHENEY...DAVENPORT...ROCKFORD.

Picture from 3:30pm PST out front





Pictures around 6:30pm out back