Almost December and still wearing shorts....(In CA, we are so screwed)

[longship]

37. Rural west MI here.

We've had three to four inches of snow for a week here. It isn't getting warm enough to melt any of it. Kind of early as winters are generally mild in MI until Jan, unless you're right near Lake Michigan in which case you get lots of lake effect snow.

I am fifty or so miles from the shore, but I fear that this winter is going to be a bitch. We've had two very mild ones in a row. Yes, it gets cold, but I just rebuilt my old oil furnace the last couple of years. All I need is the driveway to be plowed so the fuel truck can keep the fuel oil tank from getting empty. I have enough to get me into January. But this early cold isn't going to help.

You Californians send some of that warmth up here, you hear?

I will wait patiently. And thanks.

(We'll probably get a fucking Alberta Clipper, instead. Horrible things; Storm out of the Canadian Rockies dump a ton of snow then drop temperatures below zero F for days to add insult to the injury.)

Enjoy the warmth, Californians.