So lately there's been a sort of arctic front coming through the South. Not something people down here are exactly used to. Instead of a fairly mild winter (i.e - almost 70 during Christmas week), we're having unusually cold temperatures. For example, last night it got down to a low of about 10 degrees (not to mention the wind advisories we're having it probably felt more like 1 or 2 degrees!). I think right now I'm in a bit of a weathery confusion. I was thinking when we moved to the South in 1996 that we would have wonderful temperatures all year long and i could wear flip flops and shorts and never have to worry about the cold again. Well, how wrong I was. I discovered quickly that the South gets cold during the winter!!! not like D.C. or New England with pretty snow and crisp cold; it's a freezing rain, wet, gray, windy cold. The miserable kind of cold you may experience in the UK. Well, since then it's gotten worse! As you can tell from the forecast above we've had single digit temperatures and freezing winds. But, what's more peculiar is that one day it may be freezing cold and the next morning you wake up to 60 degree weather and sunny skies! I'm telling you....I've never experienced anything so crazy as the American South-East and Mid-South.
You know what they say about Georgia's weather in particular (but can apply to much of the South)... "If you don't like the weather here, wait until tomorrow."
ReplyDeleteIt's quite a schizophrenic thing we got going on.
hahaha you can definitely say that again! last year it even snowed in the middle of march while we also had 70 degree weather in february, oh and not to mention and F-5 tornado. seems like tuesdays are the days for weather phenomena in jackson
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