Oct. 31st, 2019 12:33 pm
Snolloween
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muckefuckSunday may well turn out to have been our last nice day of the year. It's been cold and grey this week, but I was hoping it was only a spell and the weather would turn. Today, however, it's snowing and it feels like winter is really here.
Winds were coming from the north so I went down to the shore after this morning's All-Staff to photograph the surf. I've never seen the lake so high. (Indeed, a friend checked the DNR records and found it hasn't been since 1986.) It's now higher than the level of the lagoon on campus, and parts of the bank are swamped. When I went out to landfill to take photos, I found chunks of concrete washed up on the grass at least four meters from the waterline. This storm is not kidding around.
The snow was just beginning to stick at midmorning, when the temperature was still officially above freezing. It's expected to drop slowly over the course of the day so we'll see real accumulation before nightfall. Some suburbs have rescheduled trick-or-treating for Saturday. I can see the logic, yet I see this as the slim end of the wedge that will be the end of celebrating Halloween on Halloween.
Winds were coming from the north so I went down to the shore after this morning's All-Staff to photograph the surf. I've never seen the lake so high. (Indeed, a friend checked the DNR records and found it hasn't been since 1986.) It's now higher than the level of the lagoon on campus, and parts of the bank are swamped. When I went out to landfill to take photos, I found chunks of concrete washed up on the grass at least four meters from the waterline. This storm is not kidding around.
The snow was just beginning to stick at midmorning, when the temperature was still officially above freezing. It's expected to drop slowly over the course of the day so we'll see real accumulation before nightfall. Some suburbs have rescheduled trick-or-treating for Saturday. I can see the logic, yet I see this as the slim end of the wedge that will be the end of celebrating Halloween on Halloween.