There have been a lot of posts in the past month about the weather. Icy weather in New England, snowy weather in the Northwest, non-snowy weather in Arizona.
To all of you people who don't like your weather, I just have this to say: Come to Texas. If you don't like the weather, all you have to do is wait a minute/hour/day and it will change.
I live in the DFW Metroplex. On Saturday, January 3, 2009, the high temperature was 84 degrees, tying the record for the day. When I woke up on Monday, January 5, 2009, it was 31 degrees, with a light rain. Do the math folks, that's a drop of over 50 degrees in 36 hours.
I left my office a bit early to avoid the fools who think they can drive on ice/think that every damp place on the road is ice. It kind of worked. I made it home safely, stopping along the way to take some photos of Mother Nature's handiwork. By the way, our electricity has been arbitrarily shutting down for very brief periods all through the night. Nothing big.
The only ice I saw was like this on my car. The streets/ground were still warm from the weekend.
Icy World
Fairyland
Juxtaposition
Perfectly Ornamented
Jewels in My Garden
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Texas weather is extreme, you're right about that. Especially in the winter. I've seen it go from -2 to 70 in 3 days. And in college I went to a class when it was 70, and when class was over it was 45.
But here in Northern Illinois, the weatherman was talking about how mild it is to be today. The high will be 34. Yep, that's mild.
That cardinal is just amazingly eye-popping. What brilliant color! I had to go look at it full size on your Flickr page, he's just gorgeous. :)