November 15, 2006

First Snow - St. Louis Style

In summer I've spoken of how the water comes off the river and raises our heat indexes to the roof with the humidity levels. Well, the moisture takes a few breaks in fall, but comes back again for the beautiful St. Louis November - which is here in full force after a strangely warm day last friday (we're talking hiking-in-tanks weather).

What I mean is - wet, and quite cold. Not VERY cold, for if it was any colder of course we'd have snow, but it FEELS colder because it wraps around you even as water, and it's raining, and it's very windy, and it all sort of permeates you to the point that when you go inside, you're amazed at how fast you warm up until you realize that's because you had imagined yourself thoroughly drenched.

But yeah, the forecast is snow tonight or tomorrow; may not stick, but should be there. There have also been reports of snow today; little flurries amid the freezing rain. May or not be true, and is far from picturesque, but it's there.

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