Winter is Coming

The weather up here is odd. On Friday we broke a record high. We elasped the old record by 2 degrees, taking the new record to 64 degrees. Yeah, 64 degrees F. I know it doesn't sound warm at all, but we were a good 30 degrees warmer than normal that day.

Well I have said we were going to be punished for our stretch of warmish temperatures in the 50's and so we are this week. Reality Check 101... Winter is never kind. Today we topped out around 37 degrees and had a nice beautiful day of rain, sleet, freezing rain, thunderstorms, snow, and wind. Oh yes, the wind is horrible up here. Locals consider 20 m.p.h. a light breeze. A normal day could see the winds up in the mid 20's. The other day we had winds gusting to 65 m.p.h.! Uh thats just 9 miles per hour short of a hurricane.

I have this weather.com weather bug on my desktop for general reference for temperatures. One might believe that the normal colour of the weather bug would be red up here because it seems like we are constantly getting severe weather advisories, watches, and warnings. Oh on the contrary, apparently the weather bug is blue! Who would have thought!

It is funny how you go from one advisory to the next without any laspe time. For instance:

We went from a high wind warning to a winter storm watch, to a winter storm advisory, then to a high wind warning and finally we are at the winter storm watch. All of this occurred in roughly a 60 hour period.

I JUST LOVE THE WEATHER IN NORTH DAKOTA!
(did you get the scarcastic tones?)