There is something weird going on with the weather around
here. Today I saw something on Facebook about the temperature in Dallas Texas
being 23 degrees and the temperature in Salt Lake City Utah being 30 degrees!
Of course, when I saw it, the first thing that hit me was
that it was a whopping 30 degrees in Salt Lake City! I found myself wishing it
was that warm here. Then I noted the other city in that meme and wondered what was going on. Is it really colder in Dallas than in Salt
Lake?
Though before I could fully absorb that information, a
friend of mine, who lives in New Orleans, posted it was 17 degrees at her
place.
My response was, well at least it wasn’t -2!
That isn’t to say it was -2 at the time I commented. No, at
that time it was 23 degrees out, just like in Dallas, but it had been, well it
got to -3 Monday night.
How is this happening?
Dallas and New Orleans being colder than Salt Lake is bad enough,
but to have to deal with negative temperatures here, well, I’m not the only one
having problems.
I wasn’t the only one at Auto Zone yesterday because of
battery issues. There were three other people there with the same issue. And as
that was afternoon, I’m sure they had a lot more come in earlier.
Then a friend of mine came over to help me with the new
battery I needed, and he told me he moved from Bear Lake to get away from below-zero weather.
I said at the time that I didn’t think he had moved far
enough south for that and I even wished I lived in Vegas with Konnie right now.
He told me Bear Lake gets colder.
Yeah, it probably does. Bear Lake, like Rexburg, is at a
much higher altitude than down on the Snake River Plains where we live. And let’s
face it because Pocatello is situated in such a small valley, most storms skip
over us and hit Blackfoot, I.F., and Rexburg with way more than we get here.
I should know, I’ve lived in those places, and even Salt
Lake. Pocatello does not get hit with winter weather as hard as places further
north or at least in much bigger valleys than here.
Which isn’t to say we don’t get hit, because we get hit,
there’s a good six inches outside from this past weekend’s storm. And from
all reports, it was worse out of this valley. Chubbuck and Fort Hall got it
worse. They always do and considering how close they are to Pocatello it still
seems amazing.
For those of you who don’t know the town I live in, to get
from Pocatello to Chubbuck, you just have to cross a street. And, while driving through
Chubbuck on Yellowstone Ave, about the time you hit the suburbs, you cross into
the Reservation, which doesn’t end until you hit Blackfoot.
Taking Yellowstone Ave, the other way, you get to farms
before you hit Inkom, but there isn’t as much open land there as there used to
be! And Inkom isn’t in this valley either.
And I promise Inkom tends to get hit worse than Pocatello.
Again, this small valley.
I just wish this small valley could protect us from the
cold. At 9:30 last night, it was -4 outside! Yikes! I’m glad I was inside.
By the way, that doesn't include the wind chill factor.
It’s dang cold out there!
But we’re supposed to start warming up tomorrow.
The forecast is for the high 30s for tomorrow. That is tolerable,
that is what we are used to for this time of year; we are in the north. If this
is the kind of weather down in New Orleans, I can see how they would be miserable.
Like how I was in a hot, muggy, Virginia summer. Give me arid
heat any day.
Actually, arid weather period. Humidity kicks it up several
notches either way I think. Though it never got this cold in Norfolk while I
lived there.
I had quite a few laughs at the reaction of the locals to
the snow. They actually closed the schools over a skiff of snow! I mean you
could still see the grass between what little bits of snow there was, and it
wasn’t laying on the asphalt or concrete.
It was even funnier when there was a run on groceries when a
winter storm was predicted. They acted like they’d be snowed in for weeks.
Sometimes you just have to stop and consider where you are,
and what you are used to compared to the people around you.
We all have different experiences, or perspectives.
Anyway, happy writing everyone!