Because The Wind Is High a Third Time . . .

Oh, wonderful.

My electricity stayed on during the snowstorm this past week all right, and it looks a threatened snowfall for this coming week may not amount too much but tomorrow my area may be - and will likely be  - under a high wind warning for a third time this winter (there's a high wind watch as I type), with the promise of another outage opportunity.

All over New Jersey, in fact.

Forget terrorism.  My biggest fear is the weather.  Trump would make me feel a whole lot better if he suddenly realized that climate change is a bigger threat to our safety and happiness than the Islamic State.

Did I happen to mention that AccuWeather is predicting an ice storm for early March?

Okay, it's eighteen days out, and AccuWeather's predictions for an ice storm for fewer days out than that have proven to be erroneous in past winters, but there's always a first time for AccuWeather to live up to its name, isn't there? :-O      

Because the Wind Is High . . .

An Arctic cold front has gripped the U.S. midsection.  Weather forecasters saw it coming as recently as last week.  But it least it didn't look like it would affect the Northeast.

Uh, it kind of is.

Temperatures are going to be below freezing.  But the early forecasts suggested that wind wouldn't be a problem, and so wind chills wouldn't be a problem.

Uh, they kind of will be.

There's a wind advisory for where I live tomorrow.  Bu there's no threat of a high wind that could topple trees and power lines and possibly cause my house to have a 39th outage (after two momentary outages this month, denying us an outage-free year, calendar or otherwise, once again) in the freezing cold, is there?

Uh, there kind of is.  There's a high wind watch on top of the wind advisory.

And then comes snow that changes to rain when it gets mild again on Saturday.  But there's no threat of significant accumulation, is there?

I'd better stop there . . . 

I may be back soon.