It seems like nowhere is getting their normal winter weather, regardless of the jet stream ... SoCal is usually pretty mild, winter-wise, but this year has been vastly more so – we've hardly had any rain, and there is no snow at all in the Sierras which means we won't have any water next year. YAY.
I seem to recall reading an old folk weather proverb thing that said something to the effect of 'if you get an unusually early blast of winter, the rest of the season will be mild,' which certainly seems to have held true at least for us and the Northeast. So perhaps the pattern is not completely unprecedented?
Everyone I know has or has recently had a cold. It's only a matter of time for me – I'm coasting on garlic pills and adrenaline but I'm sure that even if I fend it off, as soon as this show is done I'm going to get it bad.
TMI: I totally sympathise with your snot-face – I had a cold once that was so bad for the congestion that I used one of those nasal sprays, which worked astonishingly well as far as emptying the sink, but it didn't turn off the tap, and without the barrier of existing gunk to slow it down it just kept coming and coming. Of course I was taking a 2 1/2 hour flight that day, of which the entirety was spent with a napkin clenched on my nose ... luckily my seatmate was sympathetic, not horrified, and gave me all her napkins when I ran out of mine. NOT FUN.
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I seem to recall reading an old folk weather proverb thing that said something to the effect of 'if you get an unusually early blast of winter, the rest of the season will be mild,' which certainly seems to have held true at least for us and the Northeast. So perhaps the pattern is not completely unprecedented?
Everyone I know has or has recently had a cold. It's only a matter of time for me – I'm coasting on garlic pills and adrenaline but I'm sure that even if I fend it off, as soon as this show is done I'm going to get it bad.
TMI: I totally sympathise with your snot-face – I had a cold once that was so bad for the congestion that I used one of those nasal sprays, which worked astonishingly well as far as emptying the sink, but it didn't turn off the tap, and without the barrier of existing gunk to slow it down it just kept coming and coming. Of course I was taking a 2 1/2 hour flight that day, of which the entirety was spent with a napkin clenched on my nose ... luckily my seatmate was sympathetic, not horrified, and gave me all her napkins when I ran out of mine. NOT FUN.