I spent some time living in Germany. The temperatures were milder than here, but the humidity nearly killed me. It makes the cold feel so much sharper.
It helps to know I’m not alone. I don’t usually bother with wind chill unless it goes below zero. Once wind chill gets to negatives, I figure Mother Nature is just being sarcastic.
Thermal underwear.
Seriously, you get used to it. Every season change, it takes about a week to acclimatize. In the spring, 70* feels like the depths of hell until I get used to it. In the winter, it’s the opposite. My heaviest coat is a windbreaker that gets me through all but maybe two weeks...
Snow in the overnight forecast, but at a relatively balmy mid-twenties (F) for the temperature, compared to the single digits last night.
Guess which side of the weather front I’m on:
Nearly 1200: it is a gorgeous, sunny 64* and 32% humidity with almost no breeze to speak of. Hard to believe one week ago, there was a foot of snow on the ground and the high was 34*. Love this country!
At 0725, it is 48* and 52% humidity with clear skies. Last night’s winds have died down to 15 mph from the south but will pick up again later.
Another glorious day.
Not at all. It’s pretty typical for our first snow, most years. It comes in, dumps a few inches of wet snow, breaks tree limbs that haven’t shed all their leaves yet. Two or three days later, the ground is wet from snow melt and everyone is out in shirt sleeves, trimming broken branches.
At 1200, it is a balmy 36* and 81% humidity with breezes from the ssw.
Looks like total snow fall on my little homestead ended up at +/-12 inches. With warmer temps into the weekend, I'm counting on a sloppy, muddy weekend as everything melts off until next time.
Well, don’t come here: 32*, hazy with more snow on the way so we’ll be cloudy, too. Winds out of the nnw. About 7 inches of snow on the ground and it isn’t done yet.
Rain started in the wee hours, snow at 0730-ish. Started to accumulate faster than I thought it would.
At 0830, 36* w/ winds from the north (17 mph). Forecast is for snow most of the day.
NWS issued a winter storm watch in my area for Monday morning thru Wednesday afternoon - 4 to 17 inches of snow, with the greatest accumulation in the foothills. ... Guess where I live! 😂
For now, it is cloudy and 55*.
Freezing my butt off in a balmy 48* because two days ago it was nearly 80. Also feels colder because we got rain last night and this morning (yay!), so humidity is up.