A Weather Blog?

First Post.

Honesty is the best policy. So here we go.

I live in an icebox. It's a pretty sizable icebox. I get around, if you will. It's called Minnesota.

This summer it didn't feel like an icebox. It felt more like Missouri. That can be a good thing or a bad thing. It made me garden grow well. We got plenty of tornadoes. But like all people who live here, I knew the other shoe had to drop.

It did. And how.

November started beautifully. Then about the Armistice Day/Veteren's Day, it got cold. Two days later we got snow. And it hasn't left us yet.

Backing up a few weeks. On the 25th of October, we got a strangely intense storm called a Bomb Cyclogenesis. I shit you not. This was the equivalent to a Category 3 hurricane and went right over our heads. The center of the "eye" passed about 7 miles north of where I live. I actually saw the "eye". But the freaky thing was how hurricane-like the storm was. And how much it made one remember "The Day After Tomorrow". Climate change sucks.

So I started naming storms. The local NPR station asked people for names. There were replies like Octo-Bomb. But I thought that we should name them as they do hurricanes. So I did. I compiled lists to last several years. I made sure 2010-2011 had a list to begin with. I named the Bomb/Cat 3 land hurricane, Annika. And then promptly retired the name.

Since then we've had a few storms and the lakes and rivers have pretty much frozen over. Early mind you. Other names have been Bjørn, Cerise, Damek and Evelyn. Last Saturday's storm was Evelyn. They recorded only 5" at Chanhassen, our local NOAA office but I got 10"+ at my house. And that was the official measurement for Lakeville, where I live.

This Saturday, we have another storm rolling in promising white powdery shit once more. So I'm naming this one Filya. It's Greek for a Greek name: Phillip. Yeah. That makes no sense to me either. I just thought it was a neat name.

I decided that it wasn't enough to run my SNAFU blog. I needed to run one on MN weather. It's our favorite subject. We don't talk about it as a pleasantry. It's a real topic of interest up here!

So long story short (too late), here I am!

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