Four seasons climate

[joefoto]

Come to Oklahoma! Enjoy or four season climate!

We got a total of 15" of ice and snow overnight, a new record storm total. Everything is shut down, including the major highways. So I'm reading the latest Ludlum paperback. I know I should be out shooting, because there are some really interesting subjects with combination of precipitation and the winds -- we were under a blizzard warning. But our 2 Bichons think the snow was put there for them, and they [I]love[I] breaking trail, even when only their noses can get above the snow. So we are at home, reading, watching the dogs play, and trying to warm them enough to get the ice out of their coats when they come inside.

Last summer we didn't have many 100+ temps, but this has been our second driest year on record.

Autumn leaves were spectacular! But the windstorm on about the third day after peak changed it to mainly bleak.

And in the spring, we get live TV of the thunderstorms, hail, and tornadoes. (Our storms come mainly in the late evening when it's dark, so radar is a life saver.)

So we have all 4 seasons, just sometimes too much weather.

Joe

Bartlesville, OK, about 20 miles south of the Kansas State Line.

[Ian]

Re: Four seasons climate

Come to Oklahoma! Enjoy or four season climate!

We got a total of 15" of ice and snow overnight, a new record storm total. Everything is shut down, including the major highways. So I'm reading the latest Ludlum paperback. I know I should be out shooting, because there are some really interesting subjects with combination of precipitation and the winds -- we were under a blizzard warning. But our 2 Bichons think the snow was put there for them, and they [i]love[i] breaking trail, even when only their noses can get above the snow. So we are at home, reading, watching the dogs play, and trying to warm them enough to get the ice out of their coats when they come inside.

Last summer we didn't have many 100+ temps, but this has been our second driest year on record.

Autumn leaves were spectacular! But the windstorm on about the third day after peak changed it to mainly bleak.

And in the spring, we get live TV of the thunderstorms, hail, and tornadoes. (Our storms come mainly in the late evening when it's dark, so radar is a life saver.)

So we have all 4 seasons, just sometimes too much weather.

Joe

Bartlesville, OK, about 20 miles south of the Kansas State Line.

The weather is undeniably changing. Here in the UK near London it's been like summer in the evenings on a few days during November and only a couple days of scraping ice off the car in the morning.

It's really kind of scary to me

Ian

[joefoto]

Re: Four seasons climate

Overnight, the city "plowed" our street, as it is one of the more traveled in our subdivision. That left balls of snow and ice of about 3-4' in diameter at the end of my drive. Then, later this morning I heard an engine like that of heavy equipment. Walked out to find my neighbor's drive being plowed by a decent sized tractor with a front-end loader. I put my name on the list, and now, about 4 hours later, my entire drive is dry! So if we get some street improvement overnight again, maybe we can actually go somewhere outside our house! Finally an end to Cabin Fever! Thank goodness for someone doing the work, because my snow shovel has disappeared since autumn, and my electric snow blower will handle upwards of maybe 2 inches in one pass.

Come to Oklahoma. If you don't like the weather, just wait 15 minutes and it will change (to paraphrase Will Rogers, likely one of the more famous native Oklahomans).