Saturday, January 4, 2014

Minus-9 degrees

Hope all in the blogosphere managed through Winter Storm Hercules. In these parts it was pretty routine -- about 8 inches of snow, bitter cold, but nothing dramatic otherwise. This morning, I went to start my car at 5:30 and the temperature read -9 (minus-9). I went and got my Stewart's coffee, and then drove my son Joey up to the high school for drop-off on his way to a winter track meet at West Point.

And then, it was up to Norrie Point in Staatsburg to post a sign announcing that our road race would be postponed a day till Sunday. This decision was made early in the storm, when the potential for more snow was still real and the Arctic air and dangerous wind chill warnings were dire. Could we have held the race today? Absolutely. It looks to be cold but dry today. Sunday's forecast is for warmer temperatures but possible icy/freezing rain. In early January outdoors, the goal is take the lesser of evils. It's debatable which day would have been better or worse.

After a brief warming trend, the temperature plummets again on Tuesday with a forecast HIGH temperature of 8 degrees. Global warming? Not this week.

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