While the Subaru behaved admirably on the short round-trip I made this morning in the high winds and snow (all the way to Yosemite), I decided that I don’t really have a compelling reason to drive in that sort of weather this morning. So I shan’t.
And, with the home broadband thang, I don’t actually have to.
Working from the office remains more convenient, but not that much more to necessitate the risks today.
(To: the weather folks at KCFR. Re: Light Snow, definition thereof. Yes, “only” 1-2″ are expected. But even an inch, untrammeled, at 5:30 a.m., with high winds, is not anything to breezily, so to speak, dismiss. Or, as the local weather has it, “Light snow showers, freezing fog.” There’s no winter weather advisory, and it may be that I go in later this morning. But …)
UPDATE: If Katherine is going to watch the Strawberry Shortcake DVD that Jackie, out of the sadistic goodness of her heart, gave her last night, I might strike out into the snow anyway. Barefoot and naked, if necessary.
It’s even strawberry-scented.
I shudder to ask, but what is “freezing fog”?
Oh, it’s really cool stuff. Obscures vision just like fog, but rather than everything getting dripping wet, everything it hits gets icy. Cool!
FZFG. According to one definition:
A suspension of numerous minute ice crystals in the air, or water droplets at temperatures below 0 Celsius, based at the Earth’s surface, which reduces horizontal visibility; also called ice fog.