Looking out my back door
posted at 10:00 am on November 7, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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Winter has unofficially arrived in Minnesota today:
Just a few days ago, we had one last unexpected dash of summer. Monday afternoon and evening were so pleasant that I blogged from my porch. The temperature hit the 70s, and the overnight lows didn’t get below the mid-50s.
The snow is not as early as it was last year, when the snow fell before Halloween, but it’s close. The weather forecast predicted snow next Monday, not today, but now it looks like we’ll get snowfall all weekend long. Time to get gasoline for the snowthrower and pick up a few bags of rock salt.
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If I never see snow again, I will be a happy camper. I hate cold! If I have to wear a jacket, it is too cold. Today will be in the mid-eighties here in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico (I’m on an oil platform).
DAT60A3 on November 7, 2008 at 11:32 AM
As Madison Conservative said, you (and Shoebox, my co-blogger) can keep it on your side of the Mississippi/St. Croix.
steveegg on November 7, 2008 at 11:40 AM
Hello from Houston…high of 78 today!
Of course August is unbearable!!!!
rightwingmom on November 7, 2008 at 11:40 AM
Its dry, and in the 50s here in San Diego, CA (but then again its kinda early still :-p)
Defector01 on November 7, 2008 at 11:41 AM
gee…Ed It’s in the high 60’s, sun is shining in NC…
Enjoy the snow!!
kanda on November 7, 2008 at 11:46 AM
We’ve had a fabulously beautiful autumn in Colorado – 70s almost 80 at times. The mountains now have snow, but the plains have been warm and dry until the past 2 days and that’s been dry in the 40s.
We need to water the garden again.
Common Sense on November 7, 2008 at 11:48 AM
*groan*
Guess I’ll have to go back on my SAD medications for the duration of the winter.
Maybe I should invest in a tanning bed like Sarah.
I have no plans to run for higher office so what the heck?
turfmann on November 7, 2008 at 11:58 AM
77 here in southern california. I had to shovel the sunshine off the sidewalk again this morning
Greenhelmet on November 7, 2008 at 12:00 PM
I wasn’t going to post this, but some have mentioned loving Winter pics.
http://finedrywit.blogspot.com/2008/11/sound-of-falling-snow.html
Taken 12-31-2001
Doug on November 7, 2008 at 12:03 PM
Argh–you would post that. I’ve had a hankerin’ of late for taking my family on a visit to where I grew up in Connecticut.
dufflepud on November 7, 2008 at 12:07 PM
kanda- you know that’s a heat wave for people in MN!
I grew up in NW Minnesota, close to Fargo/Moorhead. I don’t miss the snow one bit. I’d take 70s everyday any day. But I understand the nostalgic of weather and Minnesotans. :-) I’ll have to send this picture to my mom, who finally moved to a warmer place.
conservative pilgrim on November 7, 2008 at 12:23 PM
Brrrrrr
christene on November 7, 2008 at 12:34 PM
Hurricane Hunters busy in the gulf and winter storms dumping snow in the north…
Algore will put a neat twist on it…
pherrman on November 7, 2008 at 12:36 PM
Forecast in the Chicago area is for some snow this weekend. At least the autumn leaves are lovely.
Mulligan on November 7, 2008 at 12:43 PM
You should move up here to Dallas. The August temps are the same but it’s a comparatively dry heat and the mosquitoes here don’t travel in squadrons.
Kafir on November 7, 2008 at 12:43 PM
I live in Minnesota too. The snow is a bit weird looking. But we all know the cause: Global Warming!
I laugh.
Aronne on November 7, 2008 at 12:51 PM
Damn Global Warming!!!
MAD2008 on November 7, 2008 at 1:22 PM
We had our first snow the 5th of October. Winter always comes “early” in Idaho Falls!
Looking forward to another heavy winter. Just like last year.
Let it snow!
Ace ODale on November 7, 2008 at 1:28 PM
+1
And sunny!
I can take the cold, but I can no longer handle grey weather.
Y-not on November 7, 2008 at 1:30 PM
How is Idaho? I’ve been trying to get my hubby to take a look. He’s in higher ed administration. Looked a jobs in Boise a couple of years ago, but wound up in SoCal.
Y-not on November 7, 2008 at 1:31 PM
My Slovak Grandma passed to me her ritual of washing her face with the first snow of the year to prevent wrinkles.
She did have amazing skin, and I superstitiously cling to that practice.
So, Ed, I’ll be watching the Ustream video at 3 pm, to see if you have a special ‘glow’…
;-)
mbo213 on November 7, 2008 at 1:36 PM
Ha!
BowHuntingTexas on November 7, 2008 at 1:42 PM
Wow, here in Virginia it’s 72 degrees right now. Gonna get cold this weekend though down in the 40’s at night. If predictions are correct though I may actually have to buy a winter coat this year. I had one once about 1984 or so. I’ll have to find my ice scraper too, in a couple of months. Rock Salt? You gonna make ice cream?
Lived in Idaho Falls in 1965/66. It was the coldest place I’ve ever been…or ever want to be. Most snow I’ve ever seen too. Loved living there though…it was a great place. Are the funny signs still on the highway out to NRTS? Like “Lava’s free so make your own soap.” or “Quiet, breeding reactors.”
Oldnuke on November 7, 2008 at 1:47 PM
Well if “W” is responsible for global warming and Hurricane Katrina, then “H” must take responsibility for bad weather from here on out. Start a letter-writing campaign, we must put an end to his terrible meteorological policies!
joe_doufu on November 7, 2008 at 2:04 PM
Aloha from sunny Kauai. 84 and will be all year long.
Uncle_Aina on November 7, 2008 at 2:10 PM
A sure sign of Global Warming! indeed…
RocketmanBob on November 7, 2008 at 2:29 PM
Ed,
You’re obviously trying to mislead us with your phony, doctored, photoshopped picture.
Al Gore told us over three years ago that global warming would kill us all.
You sir, are a fearmonger.
/sarc off
catmman on November 7, 2008 at 2:55 PM
It snowed here in Utah a few days ago too. I am not excited for winter. I’ve read that it’s supposed to be colder than usual in this part of the country this year. *sigh*
I do remember it snowing on Halloween for us once here. I was maybe 7 at the time and dressed as a ballerina/fairy. Needless to say, it was really cold trick-or-treating. This year I was Saria from Ocarina of Time (my husband was Link and my daughter was Navi) and I was quite warm and comfortable, actually. :P
Christina D on November 7, 2008 at 4:34 PM
I can one up that frosty looking Minnesota morning Ed. A few weeks ago we had a few feet of snow here in Wyoming. :) So, the ol’ snow blower has already been fired up.
wytammic on November 7, 2008 at 6:37 PM
76 in Nashville today.
StPatrick on November 7, 2008 at 7:05 PM
It’s only 0300 on Kauai and the temp is a cool 72. However, learned my snow removal technique in Minot N.D. where for 2 winter’s (there is only one day of summer – and you have to be lucky to catch it) the first snow was on Halloween and the last blizzard of the season was on May 30th dumping 4 inches of snow.
Kept my snow shovel and put it on display as an antique ‘Poopy Scooper’at various garage sales and can not get any takers. Maybe, I should hold on to it so I can dig my way out of the effects of ‘Global Warming’.
MSGTAS on November 8, 2008 at 8:45 AM
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