Yesterday the snow came down solidly all day, but we still went up for a half-day of skiing to take advantage of the relatively balmy (i.e., positive) temperatures. Although visibility was low, I managed to stay comfortably warm by wearing every article of ski clothing I own. My fingers were still cold, but when I took my gloves off for lunch my nails were slightly less purple than they’d been the day before, so that was nice.

Today EVERYBODY is taking the day off, except for a few hardy souls we saw trudging up to the mountain. A cold front blew through last night along with four inches of snow, and now the temperature is minus one degree (again, Fahrenheit) in the village. On top of the mountain it’s minus five, with a wind chill of minus thirty-one. MINUS THIRTY-ONE.

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So we’re here, and it’s cold. The plane did not go down in a ball of flames, fortunately. In fact, the flight was rather pleasant. My personal experience of the flight was still horrible, of course, but not because of anything outside my little head.

Here in Keystone it is very, very cold. Not only is the temperature below freezing, it’s not supposed to even approach freezing until approximately March. How people live in climates like this for more than a week at a time is beyond me.

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. . . which is why you get a crap post like this one. Why is my head fuzzy?! This upsets me.

I need to go to bed soon, or else I’ll get into a cycle where I feel crummy, so I’m afraid to go to sleep, so I stay up, but then I end up feeling worse, and the tiredness makes the crazy stronger, so then I’m REALLY afraid to sleep, and this goes on and on until I get so tired that I fall asleep in spite of myself, usually at some obscenely late hour with the lights on and a book on my face.

The weather’s supposed to turn wintry tomorrow after what’s been a pleasant Fall in the low 80s. I wore a short skirt today to say farewell to decent temperatures. Once it drops into the 60s, I’m not a outdoors fan any more.

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Monday
Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.

Tuesday
Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.

Wednesday
Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.

Thursday
Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.

Friday through Sunday
Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.

[via Weather Underground]

Fall has finally arrived in Houston, and it is glorious.

Okay, so I don’t have a TV, and in general I find local news sensational and useless. In the morning I check the national news, read some blogs, and go about my business. If it’s raining outside when I leave the house, I bring an umbrella. If it starts raining later in the day, I suck it up and get wet.

Imagine my surprise, then, when half an hour ago I stopped at the library to check my email, only to find a brand-new message from the administration that due to the incoming Tropical Storm Humberto, the university will close at 5:00 and won’t reopen until noon tomorrow at the earliest. A couple minutes later my boss called to discuss the possibility of cancelling my LSAT class tonight. (The jury’s still out on that one, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed.)

Humberto? Never heard of him. So I head to wunderground, pull up the radar, and boom:

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Very, very cold. I’ve bitched about this before, I know, but why are public buildings always over-air-conditioned? Why why why? I could understand if maybe they had trouble regulating the temperature, so it was sometimes a little hot and sometimes a little cold, but it’s ALWAYS too cold indoors.

Right now it’s 73 degrees outside. I could handle 73. Seventy-three is a fabulous temperature. But no. No, we must chill the living goodness out of the air before we let you breathe it. It’s probably 65 in here. Sixty-five is a good temperature for a gym, but it’s much too cold for a room in which folks don’t exert much physical effort beyond that required to lift fork to mouth.

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Was a bit overblown*. Some of the bridges and overpasses in the northern parts of town iced over, and I heard that quite a few folks skidded into objects and/or each other. There may have been fatalities from crashes or falling tree branches, but not more than one or two. Can you tell how superclosely I followed this story?

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Yesterday the temperature got up into the 70s, but for tomorrow the weather folks are all waving their arms about an ice storm. Ice pellets! Sleet! Freezing rain! (Is there a difference?) Think of the children!

School’s supposed to start tomorrow. It might not. We’ll see. All you folks in snowier climes are probably laughing at our precaution, but we Houstonians don’t know from sleet, y’all. Seriously. As soon as the roads ice up we all drive straight into the bayous for the heck of it. Also, few of us own gloves. Or warm socks.

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It’s 10:30 in the morning on the sixteenth of December, and the temperature outside is a steamy 73 degrees. We’re supposed to hit 80 tomorrow. I think it’s safe to say that Christmas 2006 won’t be a white one.

The weather has been ridiculously warm of late—yesterday the temperature hit 80, despite its being the second-to-last day of November. I actually turned on the air conditioner in my car, which is not something I do lightly.

But winter’s about to come smack us in the face: there’s a mother of a cold front blowing through today. You should’ve seen the clouds skittering across the sky last night.

Did you click that link? The temperature is supposed to drop TWENTY DEGREES between 9:00 and noon. Yikes.

UPDATE (9:42AM): Okay, so the weather people weren’t kidding. When Sam and I left to go to the vet an hour and a half ago, it was warm, muggy, and still. Now? Rainy, blustery, and fucking freezing. So I should change before school—yesterday’s short sleeves and flip flops won’t cut it.

UPDATE2 (9:41PM): I didn’t forget to post a link today; I intentionally postponed it so I could get to my Syntax exam on time. In honor of Syntax, then, the final NaLiPoMo link will be Babel’s Dawn. It is, as the tagline says, a blog about the origins of speech, which just goes to show that no matter what you’re interested in, even if it’s pre-historical linguistics, someone somewhere is blogging about it.