Today we had a sunbreak. It was rather warm and I seriously considered taking off my hoodie, something I don't do.
I love those sneaky sunbreaks!! All I need is 20-30 minutes of sun in my apartment to warm it up. That way, I don't have to use those damn electric heaters, which hemorrhage money
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philly cheese
Hope (but its a far chance) that we might get snow this year. It usually gets below 20 F sometimes in the year, but its sunny then.
Then It's upper 30s when its cloudy.
I rather like the freezing-cold, sunny winter days. Sophomore year, there was a girl in our dorm who moved up from California. I told her that in the winter, if it's sunny, it's devestatingly cold, and she seemed incapable of comprehending such a paradox.
As for snow, we get royally screwed. It's not
quite naturally cold enough to snow here. Almost, but not quite. Without any "help", our temperatures hover between 35 and 45 degrees in the winter. For snow, an arctic air mass has to creep down from Canada or Alaska (or at least be in the general area). However, large air masses are generally associated with high pressure, which means no clouds, or at least no moisture. Our coldest temperatures come with sunny weather, not with blizzards. So for snow, we don't want the
whole air mass, just the fringe of it. That way, our normal moisture can still come in from the southwest (since the high pressure is not really pushing it away), then mix with the cold air from the north, and voila! Snow! It's tricky for this to happen, so it doesn't happen with any sort of regularity. Also, since this is kind of an unstable situation, it doesn't last long. Rarely does our snow stick around for more than a couple days. Fortunately, there's always plenty of snow to play with in the mountains
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[/6th grade science lesson]
GT4_Rule
I don't like this clock thing. Every year, due to this, the school has half of the students sleeping in.
It really is surprising how many people are caught off-guard by this
every single time.