katallison | (no subject)

I seem to be obsessed with babbling about weather tonight, for which I beg forgiveness, but my god, it's so odd outside. The ice continues to fall heavily from the sky and is piling up on all surfaces, big thick granular shoals of it like someone was running an enormous snow-cone machine over the city. But the air is very mild, and the sky is incredibly *light*. I've never quite figured why some winter nights are so luminous (in this case, it must be partly due to city lights refracting off of millions and millions of ice crystals in the air), but just now, as an experiment, I took a book out on my back deck (ice crunching underfoot) and was able to read fine print with perfect ease. It would be a wonderful night to go wandering around with a camera, except for the fact that I'd fall down and break a hip within three steps.

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I have a fascination with weird weather. I love it when the ice coats everything as it melts before I have to go anywhere. It's so strange you're getting that kind of weather in MN. We get the occasional ice storm in DC, once every few years. This year has been so mild, we haven't had but a few days of actual cold weather. Today was almost 70. I think we broke records.

There's also a nearly full moon, which does help with the ice reflectivity in the atmosphere, too.

What a cool description, too!
I recall one morning, visiting in Oregon, where hoarfrost had built up almost horizontally on all the fence wires, like a copy of the wire 1/2" long and maybe 1/32" thick. Everywhere. Very strange-looking.