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Exaggeration supreme. The local news media labeled the first snowstorm of the year, "Arctic Blast 2008". It's been somewhat humorous because their forecasts have been pretty extreme, yet mother nature hasn't delivered for the most part. For example, yesterday we were supposed to get two to four inches of snow. We got zip. What fell seemed only to melt what was already stored up on the ground, as if the flakes were composed of magical heat energy thermal inversion emitters. Basically, by the end of the day, all the roads were bare asphalt, and the rest of the ground was mostly exposed as well.

Supposedly we are going to get six to ten inches today. Everyone is kinda making fun of the forecasts, and it seems pretty unlikely we will get that much snow. At any rate, the consistency of snow has been significant. We rarely get snow for more than one or two days in a row in the Portland area. It is more likely for us to be plagued by a horrible icy freeze than an extended dose of snow.

I threw up: BLEWKARUG! No, I'm not sick. I threw up some more snow pictures though.
See them here on EsoShow

Yesterday on my way out the door I noticed the interestingly perfect "shadow" left by a car that had shielded the ground from the snow. As I looked down the line it was interesting to see how there was a perfect on-off pattern, as if every other car was invisible or something (but still cast a shadow). Not a likely occurrence, so I took a picture.