It started snowing Saturday morning about the time I got out of bed. It didn’t amount to much for a while. By the time I took the dogs for a walk, it was beginning to stick.
That was around 10 am. Even though it had been fairly warm earlier in the week, the snow was starting to stick on the roads. By the time we got back home, there was about two inches.
And then, by the afternoon, it was all gone.
The temperature dropped a little overnight, although not below freezing. When we got up Sunday morning, we had dense fog. This was up close to the top of the mountain, when I took the dogs for their walk.
The fog got thinner the lower we went. I think that means it was actually a cloud by that time.
Our weather has been wet and quite warm. It rained a lot before we got the snow, and it’s raining again now, as I write this Monday evening. We have had a fire most of the recent days, but, except for a couple of really cold nights, we could have done without. Now, the temperature is actually supposed to go up though the night. It’s 50F now and is supposed to be around 60F by morning. It looks like winter is almost over. At least that’s what this clematis thinks.
Clematis is deciduous; it’s not supposed to start leafing out until spring. We have some bulbs that are similarly early. In fact, some of our bulbs sprouted new foliage even before all the old leaves had turned brown and shriveled.
This weather. It’s all so confusing.
Snow, fog, rain… you have it all at once there. It has been an unusual winter here as well. Sometimes literally freezing, sometimes a fog so dense we can hardly see, sometimes sunny and warm enough to sit on deck in a short-sleeved shirt hoping to catch some Vitamin D. And that’s all in just a few days! Interesting times we are living in… interesting times.
Robin — We have gone through some more weather. It has been warm for the last few days, and then this afternoon (Thursday, Feb 20), it started to rain, the temperature dropped, and we had big, wet snowflakes falling for a while.