In a typical year around here, we get our first snow some time around Halloween, which will melt away, and then round about Thanksgiving we enter the deep freeze after which nothing thaws until March or April. It looks like a typical start of winter around here this morning.
jstackpo says
Gee, I didn’t know you had trees in MN. Thought it was all prairie and cornfields.
Looks cold.
Lynna, OM says
I’m still waiting for sunrise, which seems to have been cancelled today. Hello, heavy-bellied winter skies.
blf says
There seems to be some weird white stuff on the cars, in the trees, and on some of the ground. Obviously not natural, and probably not terrestrial. I suspect either a defective camera or aliens…
chigau (違う) says
You know the drill.
Keep those ears covered.
PZ Myers says
Chemtrail residue.
rorschach says
30C/86F here in Bangkok at 9pm. Partly cloudy. No snow, not now, not ever. The only ice here is that in my beer glass.
;)
Dave, ex-Kwisatz Haderach says
You’re a bit behind us. Calgary got hit on Sunday. Significantly more of the white stuff than you’ve got there.
So many cars in the ditch, I don’t understand it. Last winter wasn’t that long ago, how can you forget how to drive so quickly?
Trebuchet says
Clearly this is absolute proof that Global Warming is a liberal fraud. Al Gore is FAT!
chigau (違う) says
Ice in the beer‽
blf says
It’s how USAlienstanis’s disguise what it is they are actually drinking, which has about the same resemblance to beer as a tree branch has to interplanetary spaceflight.
Caine, Fleur du mal says
You’re behind us, the albino brain chiggers have fallen 3 times here since the beginning of October. Blarf.
The Beautiful Void says
Sean Hannity tried to warn us. If the ACA isn’t stopped, the world will end. Look what us liberals did…
PZ Myers says
That’s because Dakotans steal most of our snow. We’re actually somewhat drier here than further west.
blf says
Actually, it’s FEMA that steals the snow. They use it to hide the trains which are going to cart all the Real Americans™®© to the camps when ACA starts operating.
Caine, Fleur du mal says
PZ:
Stealing? I think not. I suspect you Minnesotans of illegal dumping of the stuff.
muzakbox says
Gee, I didn’t know you had trees in MN. Thought it was all prairie and cornfields.
carlie says
Hi rorschach! I’ve missed seeing you around lately.
We had our first hard frost today. There was a frost on Thursday, but I don’t count the ones that go away before any normal person is up in the morning.
TGAP Dad says
I’m jealous!
magistramarla says
Yeah, I’m jealous too.
It’s 84 degrees here in Hell, I mean Texas, today.
I hate hot weather!
suesommers says
So pretty!
I’m in the hill country so slightly cooler magistramaria, hate hot weather, love snow, just not driving in it.
budkuenzli says
North Pole, Alaska here. No snow yet. Rained last night. WooHoo! On behalf of all of us up here (except the Polar Bears), I’d like to thank everyone for their global warming efforts. Every few degrees of warmth is appreciated. An extra trip in your hummer…a bike left at the house (take the hummer instead) and avoidance of carpooling is always welcome.
Alaskans for Global Warming !
lamacher says
That’s really manna, PZ, and you need to gather it lest you have a drought. Listen to Moses!
qwerty says
As my 97 year old mother would say: It’s cold.
*But then she wears long underwear in July.
Holms says
Calling 84F / 29C ‘hot’… lulz ensue!
Thumper; Immorally Inferior Sergeant Major in the Grand Gynarchy Mangina Corps (GGMC) says
@Holms
By my standards (and the rest of SE England’s), that’s boiling.
theophontes (恶六六六缓步动物) says
It is sub-zero in Harbin. Therefore not a place I care to spend too much time in. My heart bleeds for you poor non-tropical Pharyngulites.