For us, one of the attractions of moving to the San Francisco Bay Area was the weather. Sure, we knew that there are usually a couple of days a year when temperatures dip below freezing, but we could handle that.
The National Weather Service has issued a hazardous weather warning for the Bay area. For tonight, they say “the coldest air of the season so far is expected. Snow levels will lower to 500 feet….” Since we live well below the 500 foot level, that is fine with me. It might be charming to see a little white on the tops of the coastal range.
The forecast continues: “Areas of frost are possible late Monday night into Tuesday morning.” That is still within the range of acceptable weather. In fact, it would be fun to see some frost: last time we lived in the Bay area, it was faintly amusing to see people trying to scrape frost off their car windshields with credit cards (I made sure to keep our ice scrapers in the glove compartment). But then the forecast continues with something is is quite unacceptable: “Monday through Saturday. Colder with rain and snow showers….”
Snow showers, even if mixed with rain, are completely unacceptable, and will not be tolerated.
You coiuld be back in Massachusetts, we just had four inches of wet, sticky snow. Today the temperature in Stow got to 34 degrees so not much of the snow melted. Wednesday we are expecting rain and/or snow. So you should feel right at home with your forecast.
i’m little freaked out that it’s only december and we may need to put the heat on soon. I blame Al Gore.
Silly west coasters. It snowed here (Indiana) last night, and the high today is 30-something. Balmy here, positively balmy.
Zero on Thursday in Geneva. Woke up to our first measurable snow this AM. The bay area looks really good to me. Always has…
Well, I’m in Canada. I think I win this contest for most hated winter weather.
I’m up the street a few miles from Palo Alto. It’s raining and cold. I’ll have to check my frost-sensitive plants outside to see if they’re still there. I imagine the tomato is going to stop producing now.
My grandparents moved here from Minnesota via Wyoming to cure my grandmother’s asthma. I believe it did. Why????
Ok, it isn’t raining. It’s sunshiny and cold. the thermometer I passed said 44 degrees. That’s really cold for here.
I LOVE winter, I LOVE being cold, I LOVE snow, sleet, ice, shoveling, slush, icy roads, windchills. I just really do. So there.
I just missed two snow storms. When it snowed in DC this weekend, I was in Sedona. Blizzard conditions were called for today in Arizona near Flagstaff for elevations over 2000 feet; I flew out of Phoenix this morning. I agree that snow showers in SFO are unacceptable. xo
OK, all you people who live in cold climates — yes, you are suffering more than I am. But you are dressed for it, and you live in houses that are actually insulated, and which have central heating to boot. It got down to 34 degrees in San Mateo on Sunday! And it was damp, relative humidity of 70%! And all we have for heat is three crummy electric baseboard radiators! Blah!
No suffering here!!!! I LOVE the cold!!! Come visit — we’ll sit around and shiver and tell stories of making fires with one match. Wheeeeeeeee