First Freeze of the Season

[Stevie Ray]

Well, it's about 30 degrees outside. I know that doesn't impress you northern folk, :) but an early November freeze in Virginia doesn't happen every year. If you buy into almanac data, we're supposed to get record snowfall this year with the first significant snow storm by late December ... :eek:

[The Deacon]

Impresses me enough Steve. It's 29 right now where I am in upstate NY, but was warm and sunny enough yesterday that there's no frost on the ground, just a trace on car windows. Been a strange year so far, after the dryest August and September in a long time, we broke the record for the wettest October. Hoping that we don't get much snow this year, but would not be surprised by either extreme. Stay warm down there.

[greencobra]

24 this morning here @ 5:30am. Scraped ice off the truck window for the first time this season.

[Zwaplat]

Most of the freezing I see in Belgium is done in a fridge. It's chilly outside, but hardly COLD. I hate this kind of weather.

[vampyrewolf]

heh. I've been scraping ice for most of the last month. We got all of about a foot of snow that lasted a week and melted again, but that first drop was abut 5" of heavy wet stuff.

was out walking last night, -5c with the windchill, 22f roughly, light fall jacket and thin gloves. :p

[smcfalls13]

It impresses me, because I'm farther north than you are, and I we have yet to dip below freezing. Really wish we would, I'm kinda get tired of cutting the grass in 34 degrees. I need a nice frost to keep it from growing back. ;)

[The Deacon]

Scott, sometimes distance from / proximity to the water and elevation can have more impact that latitute. Where I live now is in a valley, where a river running from west to east, joins into one running north to south. Use to live in the mountains about 90 miles south of here, and almost always got earlier frosts and more snow down there than up here.

[smcfalls13]

That's very possible, because I'm nowhere near any large body of water. Closest is the Chesapeake, about an hour away.

Still want that frost. D*** grass refuses to stop growing.

[jimbo@stn24]

Our weather was shaping up to get into the swing of an early, hard winter as there was punishing snows in October. It has backed off and we have been quite nice in the valley bottoms, but higher up there is a fair bit of snow stacking up when you get right up to the rocks.

Might be a good year for frozen waterfalls as there seems to be lots of moisture, but a month of chinooks can change that. Will not get much below freezing for a while yet, but when it is warm is when you get pounded and snow blower sales are good. :D The old adage in southern Alberta is, "if you don't like the weather, just wait an hour or so 'cause it'll probably change" :) .

[Slvgx]

It's been crazy here in Chicago. The warmest Oct and Nov I can remember. I was in shorts and a t-shirt today.