Friday, January 20, 2006
Return To All Of That
Back from Hawaii, with a tan, and 350 pictures on the digital camera, to find here in Iowa, no snow, and the resident deer munching on green grass. However, 3-5" of snow is predicted for today, and according to Tom Skilling of WGN weather out of Chicago, the unseasonably mild weather we've been experiencing is due to end in a week... the NAO (North Atlantic Oscillation), which is a persistent, large bubble of warm air, had been over Greenland in December, steering the cold arctic air down over us; then it moved to England, steering the cold air down over Europe, so that Russia has been experiencing record cold and snow. The warm bubble is now set to oscillate back to Greenland, portending a return here in the Midwest (and the East Coast) of cold and snow by the end of the month... they are not sure how long it will last yet. So, out to the garden to see what's happening, before the snow flies (an ugly red and orange blob covers most of western Iowa on the radar), and then I'll download my pictures of Hawaii, and look at some REAL flowers. 
// posted by IBOY @ 8:13 AM 
