Friday, February 1st - is winter finally going to get here?

This morning it's -1' at 5:30 and we'll go down to -5' by this afternoon.

The big news, no, the only news the past few days has definitely been our weather. Wednesday started out fairly mild. I had a doctors appointment at 10:30 and when I returned to work at 11:15 it was just starting to rain. By 11:30 that had changed to freezing rain which lasted approximately 3 hours. During that time the entire island was glazed over with a sheet of ice. There were many accidents during that time. Lloyd was in town and on his way home  in the middle of it. A car in front of him spun around a few times and then ended up in the ditch. Fortunately there were no serious injuries in any of the reported mishaps. The freezing rain gave way to plain old rain as the temperature started to rise, and by the time I left work at 5:00 the roads were fine. The school buses were delayed an hour and a half at the end of the day just to be safe.

Thursday morning was a strange one. The temperature at 5:30 in the morning was 11' our here - on the 30th of January!   But the wind was really strong, gusting up to 100 km per hour so needless to say there were restrictions on the bridge. It stayed that temperature all day and for a while in the afternoon we had wicked heavy rain as well, but it too had stopped later in the day, but the wind persisted all night.

This morning the wind is still howling and it' starting to cool off to more seasonable temperatures.  In fact, we may see 15 to 20 cm of snow on Sunday. Maybe we'll get to ski at some point yet this winter.

Other than battling the elements, not a lot is going on. It's been pretty quite out here on the hill.  I hear via Lloyd and Facebook, that the Van Gaals are in Pennsylvania and should be back in Canada sometime Saturday afternoon. I suspect that means they will be home sometime on Sunday so hopefully the weather will cooperate for the rest of their journey. I'm looking forward to hearing all about their trip.