This is spring, right?  Wasn’t it 80* just 4 days ago?  I do recall laying around in my various yards soaking up sun and reading a book.  It was ideal, very spring…in fact, almost summer-like.  But yet, this morning I wake up to see 2-inches of snow covering the ground and falling out of my trees.  This is why I have not yet planted any vegetables in my garden.  After reading the forecast for snow last night I mentioned to Noah that I would not be surprised if it snowed in May.  And seeing as how May starts this weekend…I’m not counting the snow out just yet.

For a couple of days at least.  We finally got back to cold and snowy weather on Sunday, overflowing into yesterday.  I loved it!  Yesterday’s high was only 11° and this morning when I left for work it was -2°.  The only thing that would have made yesterday’s weather better would have been me curled up on a couch at home, warm, cozy and reading a book (which at the moment happens to be Twilight and I am thoroughly hooked!).  Today and the rest of the week the temperatures are supposed to head back to “normal”, although today we won’t make it above the freezing mark.

I’m just glad that “The Death Turn” in my neighborhood did not ice over. I’m sure the people who live along it are glad as well seeing as how they fixed their fence Saturday from the damage caused during the last snow.

I love it when the forecasters are wrong, in my favor.  🙂  Sunday night we went to bed expecting nothing more than a dusting of snow, maybe a 1/2″, since the weather reports said our area would receive 1″ or less.  Think of the surprise when everyone woke up to 3-6″ of snow (depending on metro location).  We ended up with a lovely 3″ at our house.

The only downside to surprise snow is terrible road conditions!  I commute along a 2-lane highway between Lafayette and Boulder, so if there’s a hic-up, you’re pretty much stuck.  Think PCH, for all of you California readers.

My commute is 11 miles, which normally takes 25 minutes during morning rush hour.  Yesterday it took 90!  This is due mainly to un-plowed/snow-packed roads and a broken down bus blocking 1 1/2 of the two lanes.

Noah’s commute was just as bad.  It took him 2 hours to go about 15 miles.  He was supposed to work in Bailey yesterday, but with the roads so terrible (and the fact Bailey had more snow than we did) there just was not a way he would be able to get there and have time to get any work done.

Another fun road fact is that there is a 90° turn in our neighborhood that gets very icy during snow.  When I had the pleasure of driving on it yesterday morning I slipped, slid and “crashed” into a curb.  Thankfully it was only a curb!  Noah told me he also slid on the turn but he has 4wd as opposed to my AWD (which has to engage itself before it does any good) and was able to maintain course.  Last night, when going around the turn on my way home I was glad to see it the road had thawed.  But I also noticed that someone was more unlucky that I and had taken out the fence on the other side of the sidewalk from around where I hit the curb (it was not me!).

Needless to say, snow = pretty; icy roads = long commute.  I miss carpooling to Boulder with Noah behind the wheel.  This California girl is still getting trying to get the hang of ice-driving!

You know how people say a tornado sounds like a freight train?  Yeah, I can understand that.

Last night it was very windy and by very windy I mean 64mph.  Noah and I slept terribly because the wind continued to wake us up when we did manage to fall asleep.  Between the loudness of the wind and the sounds of tree limbs breaking and falling in our yard or on our house (have not noticed any damage, but Noah has not been on the roof yet).  I did notice that there is a large Y branch on the porch roof, other smaller branches strewn across the yard and we are missing a trash can.

We have 2 large trash barrels, and 1 large recycle barrel.  The recycle was still standing upright, one trash can was laying down (the cans are all empty since our trash was just picked up on Saturday), and the other trashcan is MIA.  It’s not in either of our yards or in the cul-de-sac.  Perhaps the loud boom we heard of the roof at 3:30 this morning was not a tree limb, but our trashcan!  I guess when Noah climbs onto the roof after work tonight perhaps the mystery will be solved!

Also, just in, the weather service has just issued another high wind watch (last night was a warning) for tomorrow night into Thursday morning.  Woohoo!

This morning the weather channel said it was -17° at 6:30.  Denver just all but obliterated the previously set records.  Yesterday the previous record of -12° (I think) was set in 1901 and smashed by -18°.  Today’s previously set record low of -6° in 1954 was replaced by -19°.  And yet people still by into the global warming mumbo jumbo.

A plus is that our current 10-day forecast shows a 60% chance of snow on Christmas Eve (day).  Woohoo!  Everyone keep your fingers crossed that it stays in the forecast!

Currently the weather channel is reporting a sweltering -1° in Boulder!

Last night we got some more snow and some very cool temperatures too!  The high I saw today was 3° and that was when I got up at 8am!  Right now, the weather channel says it is -8° outside.  I concur that it is quite frigid…enough to make one’s lungs complain when breathing in such cold, frozen air!

Next snow, maybe on Tuesday.  After that nothing in the forecast through the 23rd.  Keep your fingers crossed and pray for Christmas snow!

Yesterday we got hit with our second snowy day!  Yay!  It’s about time!  I love waking up to see snow on the ground, and it continued to snow all day.  When it was all said and down, the official count in Boulder was 7.2″ (there was 5″ when I left work at 5pm and it was still heavily snowing).  The count at our house in eastern Boulder County was 4″.  The cities/state did a good job of keeping the roads cleared and I was shocked to come home and find that our street had been plowed.  Our street never gets plowed!

Next chance of snow is Sunday night/Monday.  Make sure you check the Snow Totals page for the current count.