Winter Waning Moon of Long Nights
We have a light snow here in Andover this morning, winds gusting as high 21 mph yielding windchills in the -5 to -8 ranger. The ice below the snow continues to give its raggedy feel to driveways and sidewalks and side streets.
The bulk of this system, both in snow and wind, lies west and south of us, though we will see -20 to -30 windchills by tonight and tomorrow morning.
Waiting on a call now from Toyota about that flat tire. Meanwhile, that new novel keeps chugging along.
We limped into the dealers and ended up with a new tire on order since I shredded this one by driving on it. I thought it was an engine problem. Geez.
patterns here in the upper lower 48. Turns out it’s cold up there at the north pole even with global warming. That means we get these stretches of what people in Sun City would call cool weather.
the daylight side of the Winter Solstice. If the sun kept disappearing for longer and longer chunks of time, and the temperature grew more and more severe, then, if you had little understanding of astronomy and believed the sun’s return depended on the favor of this god or that, you could have come into the time of winter solstice hoping, but not being sure, that the sun would return.