Back in November I said I hoped that the coming winter would be an old fashioned New England winter.
It looks like I got my wish.
The only thing that wasn’t part of the ‘old fashioned’ winter has been the well below normal temperatures we’ve experienced. But that has helped preserve the snow that has fallen. The Weather GuysTM mentioned last week that so far, we’ve seen a more normal amount of snowfall but did remind us that winter is not yet over. They also mentioned that some of the heavier snowfalls we see tend to be in late February and through much of March.
We had about 5 inches of snow here at The Gulch between Friday evening and Saturday morning. It was a heavy snow because the temperature was close to freezing overnight. Much of that snow is still hanging on the branches of the trees, though I have been seeing it falling of the trees as the sun has warmed things up.
However, we have more snow on its way as a Nor’easter is predicted to hit New England overnight starting Sunday night. While we’ll see maybe 4 to 6 inches of snow here at the lake, southern New England will see a lot more. Katy, my friend from Connecticut, told me they’ve predicted between 12 and 18 inches of snow down her way.
I had mentioned to here how this was turning out to be a more normal winter for us and she replied “Maybe more like a winter when I was a kid!”
While I will be making the usual preparations for a big storm – the Official Weekend Pundit Generator being moved from the rear of the garage to the front and some extra storm snacks to be bought when I head to Walmart Sunday morning – I won’t be doing anything out of the ordinary in case the Nor’easter tracks a but farther north than predicted.
NOTE: I realize this post hadn’t been published last night until I started on my usual Thoughts On A Sunday post. I hit ‘Save’ rather than ‘Publish’, so it’s a day late!
