Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Where's my snow?

This winter, much like last winter, is a real piece of shit.  I know there are a lot of people who despise cold & snow and a lot of times those people ask me if I'm crazy because I do like winter weather.  I never give the appropriate response which is:  "Hey, fuck you.  You're the crazy one.  If you want one season all year long, why the hell do you live in Philadelphia?  Move!  Go to disgusting Florida where it's humid and Republican all the time.  God willing, once you go I won't have to deal with your stupid questions any more!" 

But the fact of the matter is we hardly have four seasons here anymore.  We have springs, we definitely have summers, and we have falls.  But our winters nowadays tend to happen around December 5.  And then again for a few days near the end of February.  That's it.  That's all we get.

We have hypemeister weather forecasters who see snowstorms on computer models a week-and-a-half in the future and they start telling us about them, getting our hopes up.  And everytime, the snowstorm either slides off the Carolina coast before reaching us or it comes up the coast but too far west and we get rain or an ugly mixture of rain and sleet. 

For fine examples of this, look at 99% of the snow that's been in our forecast at any point over the past five years.  For more recent examples, look at the storm last week.  And the one before that.  And the one that's been forecast for Thursday...but which then disappeared from that forecast and came back... to Cape May.  I'm sick of this shit.  I guess I have to move too!

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