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Either I caught this head cold at the party on Saturday, or possibly I gave it to everyone else; either way, everyone I know is sick, including our entire department. Good thing the Davos research and the yearly budget are both due this week!

I cannot believe how much snot is coming from my face. It seems unlikely that the front of my face could contain or create this much fluid, so I'm forced to conclude that my brain is now producing or storing snot. Which would explain why I'm functioning at half my normal speed, I suppose. That could also be the Sudafed.

Good thing it's not snowing...wait, what?

This weather is seriously creeping me out. There has been no snow this winter -- it has snowed three times, but it hasn't stuck once. It feels like early spring. It's January in Chicago and people are going around in light sweaters. It's been like nine months since we've had snow.

The apparent cause is a shift in the jet stream, which is sweeping further south before it hits us or possibly just not hitting us at all or something, I wasn't paying that much attention to the weather channel when they were explaining it. I don't know if that's global warming or El Nino or whatever, but I don't like it at all. The warm weather in itself is still creeptastic, like I'm living in some pre-dystopian moment in the first five minutes of a weather disaster film, but even creepier is that nobody else seems alarmed by it. Some people don't seem to have noticed that it's January and we haven't had winter yet. Some people are happy about it, and I feel like setting them on fire.

Maybe it's about to really slam us. I could just do with a blizzard right now.

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It's being freaky here in Arizona too. Yeah, yeah, I know, desert blah blah blah... but January and February are usually when we get hit with the real cold, and it's 64 degrees out right now. It's supposed to go back up to 70 this weekend. WTF, Mother Nature? We've had snow on the Santa Catalinas ONCE this year, which is just freakin' wrong. I keep expecting us to get something horrible like a giant duststorm and hail combined... It's Arizona. It could happen.

I'm coming to Chicago this weekend. And while I can appreciate the discomfort at the freakishly warm and dry weather, I have to say, Sam - SHUT YOUR MOUTH. Just for a day or two longer.

Take a look at the NOAA forecast for your fair city:

I would someday like to be in Chicago and be able to enjoy your city.

Trust me, I agree! We just missed getting our electric line yanked off our house, mostly because the tree that would have taken it out is on the opposite side of the garage from the power line (yeah-it's a HUGE old elm tree).
Our neighbors had a tree in their back yard that toppled and ripped out the power line and took the weather head right off the side of the house as well. They made do for a week with a couple of little generators and their gas stove.

My mom-well she went without power for a full week, but the day after the storm, we went to town and talked the local Home Depot into selling their display unit whole-house generator. We took it out, hooked it up to a portable propane bottle, and hard wired in the basics-heat, lights in the kitchen, electric outlets so the fridge/freezer were still running. That got her by till the power got fixed. Then all she had to worry about was the entire tops of her 50 year old maple trees. The yard looked like a giant was playing with jackstraws. We used a chipper on everything under about 1.5 inches, and still ended up with 2-3 cords of wood, then when she got them trimmed, added another cord or so to the pile.

Yeah I'm in the Twin Cities and yesterday and today has been creepily nice out, upper 40s -I have my window opened and am comfy in a long sleeved thermal- but were do for a plummet in temperature on Thursday. WE're talking 10 degrees as a high, and a possibility of snow. Frankly if it's going to be bitterly cold I say bring the snow. This weather is freaking me out!

I am so f-ing jealous of your job right now....

(misses her lousy 14 foot styrofoam dingy)

The weather is creeping me out too. I wore flipflops and no jacket when I ran down to the drug store last night. I shouldn't be able to do that in January. But they say there will be some snow by the end of the week.

It's so very home-like, having a Texas winter up here! I appreciate the welcome wagon, Chicago.

...then again, I keep looking over my shoulder for the giant hell-blizzard that's going to hit any day now. o_o

Seconding the ROFLing from the TMI!

I get allergy attacks like that, with the added bonus of non-stop sneezing!
Only cure-one benadryl tablet, and a regular dose of Sudafed. Preferably with the addition of laying down for a fairly long nap, so everything drains in, instead of out. Once I've slept off the benadryl, I'm fine. Drives me nuts!

It's creeping me out, too. I'm in DC and it's been flip flopping between 60-65 degrees and 30-35 degrees every two days! I was almost relieved when it snowed a little yesterday because I'd been seriously worried, except it was back to 5o again today.

It's like that in Maine, too, and EVERYONE is creeped out.

One of my best college friends lives in Minneapolis now; she's the one who posted it on her FB.
Me, down here in Kansas? I barely pay attention to the weather (which every once in a while bites me in the keester).

Maybe it's about to really slam us. I could just do with a blizzard right now.
Those of us who have to commute by car would like you to please, PLEASE take that back. I hate snow/winter.

Edited 2012-01-10 21:38 (UTC)

Have any cheerful, hat-wearing ex-cons entered your life lately?

If so, try being more honest and the seasons should get fixed again.

Ugh, I hate it. 50F here today. And yes, I'm a Winter Child, so the tv news anchors joking with the weatherman about how great this is makes me want to set them on fire with my brain. I love snow. (cough, and we'll have a drought next summer without it.)

Melbourne weather is weird too - it's currently like late winter/early spring (in the low teens and absolutely pelting against the windows as we speak). And we've had so little sunlight that the solar garden lights aren't working.

This alternating with hot spells of high twenties overnight and low thirties during the day. Go figure.

I'm currently tucked under the doona with the winter dressing gown, the electric blanket, the laptop and the cat and planning on staying there, and ordering my convalescent mum to do the same. (Sans cat and laptop, anyway.)

It's unseasonably warm here in New York City, as well - and has been all through the fal as well. I was pretty creeped out as well.

Then I broke my foot on New Year's Eve. And now I'm thinking "please, snow, hold off until the damn boot gets off".

It was an exchange program, actually, but awesome nonetheless. I'm jealous of the people who are out on it right now and as soon as I get my graduate degree I'm going back to teach....

I know, right? I barely even need my light jacket if I'm wearing long sleeves. >.

And meanwhile in Australia, they are forecasting snow in the mountains. In January. I just don't even know any more.

It was frigid in Tokyo this past weekend.

...of course, it's been steadily warming up since then. Still coat weather so far!

Caveat: I'm a biology major, not a weather person, but I do know a little bit.

The jet stream gets a little bit of variation, depending on what the ocean currents are doing, and El Nino and La Nina can both screw with it. I don't know that we're having an El Nino right now (though 2010-11 was a Nina) but if the ocean's warmed up enough, that would screw with the surface currents which then screws with the air currents.

OH HAI CLIMATE CHANGE indeed.

This this THIS. The part of my brain that is concerned about climate change is being overshadowed by the part of my brain that hates having to spend 20 minutes clearing snow off my car, taking two hours to drive six miles, and then end up having to go home early 'cause the daycare is closing.

Yeah, it has been cold as balls in South Korea as well. No snow, but we don't really get a ton anyway.

I wouldn't bet against the weather gods about snow on Thursday, given the way I've watched storms careen through C-bus without much warning.

Then again, I spent 13 hours in a snowstorm last January when there hadn't been any snow planned, on the way to D.C. I might be a little wary.

For what it's worth, this sunny, lovely, completely unseasonable weather is also giving me the creeps.

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