It’s cold, wet and windy here on the north west coast of England, but over in my native Yorkshire, they’re taking a proper pounding with heavy rain and floods.
So. We got our first bout of the Evil White Stuff for the season. Usually the first one is fairly light, and doesn't accumulate. But not this time. Imagine my "joy" when I got up to see everything covered in white... we actually got accumulation of a few centimeters. Fortunately, it got a little warmer during the day, and was fairly sunny, so it all melted over the course of the day. But then this evening when the temperatures dropped, it started back up again. I actually had to brush off my vehicle when I left work tonight. Oh, but that's not all. It just got worse as the evening went on, and was actually coming down rather heavily at one point. We made up all the accumulation we lost over the day, and then some. I am not psychologically prepared for this stuff yet. Why can't we have one of those wonderful years when nothing like this even starts until late December?? Oh, I think a fellow Canadian has a comment on this wonderful weather: ....... She's not wrong.
I have a friend in the UK that told me once that she had to "dig" her car out of her parking lot at work after a 6mm snowfall. A quarter of a freakin' inch and she said she had to "dig" her car out!
So it continued to snow through the evening and overnight. The city actually had to bring out the snowplows that evening... on November 7! By the next morning, we had apparently accumulated 17 cm (approximately 6.75 inches). Yes, we've had worse... MUCH worse. But this was the *first day*!! They're calling for another significant snowfall to hit us around Monday and Tuesday. Deep breaths, deep breaths. Seems like it's going to be a loooooong winter. It's hardly "digging" when you can just brush the snow off with your hand!
It's getting cold for the first time since I bought my house. So if there's any undetected issues with the heating system I'll find out real soon.
It's a little chilly. Well, most people would call mid-teens Fahrenheit for the high c-c-c-c-cold, but I'm different that way.