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The endless chatter of weather.

NBC (Janice Huff) says that from Dec 1 through Feb 8, this has been the coldest winter in NYC in 30 years. That seems about right to me, although it's milder than typical Iowa winter. My biggest complaint is that I'm running out of places to put snow.

@big_load
I still say that the best day of my life was when I sold my snowblower and moved to Arizona.

The long-awaited pattern change seems to be slowly making having some effect here in the desert. Tomorrow looks pretty weak for the valley (no complaints for the higher elevations and south/east though!) and indicators of respectable amounts of both snow and rain across the rest of the state next week are trending into the "looks promising" category. If they're not dead already, low-elevation rain might trigger a nice wildflower bloom in a few weeks. If nothing else, a few days with cooler temps will be a welcome change.

We got a little bit here in Round Valley. It drizzled off and on all morning. Better'n nothin'. Supposed to get a little more next week.

It's a wee breezy here in Eagar this morning. So far, Springerville Airport is recording gusts up to 59, but forecast is for low 60s later on. Some of our neighbors have giant trees hanging over their homes. We're just watching out the windows. Sometimes there's a gust that makes a big roaring noise in the carport.

It's entertaining because I feel safe in this house. No big trees around.

@azbackpackr I feel like it's not terribly uncommon to have winds into the 60s in that part of the state? At least 3-4x/year?

@chumley
We've been up to 74 miles an hour so far. No, it isn't too uncommon. I recall when I lived here before that it got up to about a hundred miles an hour one time. This time around, I moved here last April, so the very windy period was over with. I'm not sure if this wind storm is normal or different. Honestly, I can't remember it blowing this hard all night and all day. That doesn't mean it didn't. It just means I don't remember!