Agh! Stay away, cold!!!

Well, the crazy winter storm is sort of consuming the Weather Channel. Unfortunately, where snow and ice are a regular part of winter in some parts of the country, such things in the southeast just aren't frequent enough for these areas to be fully prepared fiscally and resource-wise. Even more unfortunately, this is a bad scenario, given the lack of snow removal equipment and salting mechanisms. The area first received rain which froze in their freezing temps, then, snow piled on top, which might get a slight chance of melting some before sleet and or freezing rain pile on top of all that mess with temps below 32°F until Wednesday. EEK!Fortunately, the bad stuff is staying north of us, but just barely. I'd rather not participate, thank you. I'm content having plenty of milk and bread. Mini-Dew and I did note at least 100 power and tree removal companies headed north out of Florida, while we were headed to and returning from Tampa this weekend. It was good to see them getting ready and realizing the extent of the storm damage. Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana and Tennessee had all declared states of emergency last I heard... apparently Mississippi has "got this". They're special. I think that if I were Governor of Mississippi, I would go ahead and declare that emergency, just in case... you never know.

Speaking of Tampa, while Mini-Dew and I were headed down, I spotted this great patch of cloud iridescence... cool stuff. I think it was part of the 22½° solar halo, but the only patch I saw was this iridescence, so I grabbed my camera.While we were down there, we stopped at a 5 Guys Burgers and Fries to partake in the best burgers in the universe and I decided to grab a skyline shot.Have a bright day!
~Dewdrop

Losing time

Just when you thought you didn't have enough time in your day, a thrust earthquake knocks the earth off its axis robbing us of the one thing we can never seem to get enough of... TIME! The 8.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Chile in the wee hours of the morning Saturday, stealing the lives of more than 800 lives also shortened the day, by what scientists estimate to be about 1.26 millionths of a second. It's really not a material difference at all, but it is fascinating to me.

Article about the earth losing time

On a less global scale, folks on the north side of Georgia are digging their way out of, yet another, snow storm. Snow fell all day long in some parts of Georgia yesterday, closing schools and roads, again. This is data from Georgia's CoCoRaHS snow data. When we were training for CoCoRaHS, we sort of skimmed over the snow part of the training. I'm not certain I could even tell you what to do... it's never really been an issue, but those folks in the northern part of the state are having to break open their training manuals and see what to do with all this snow. These winter storms are getting old. Fortunately, despite the cold temperatures, spring is starting to blossom in the area as Japanese magnolia trees come to life in a sea of purple, amidst all the brown dreariness. Come on spring!!!

Have a beautiful day!
~Dewdrop