It's Coming...

It’s Coming…
Jan 15th 2008
wolfmoonsleddog
Southeast
Location: Northwest GA
Time - 8:02pm
Temperature: 30 degrees F
Conditions: Clear
Forecast: Partly cloudy tonight, chance of rain/sleet/ice/snow tomorrow night

Calypso and I had an excellent run this morning! It was wonderfully cool and she ran hard and fast. She REALLY wanted to go this morning! I’d go so far as to say it was our best run in a while! The sun was coming up and you could see it as a big orange ball through the pine trees.

And now for the weather forecast. It keeps changing. They are saying that tomorrow night through Thursday we will probably get some “stuff.” What exactly that “stuff” might be is the question. At best it could be snow. At worst, freezing rain (aka ice, aka glaze). Freezing rain wouldn’t be that bad except that I have to go to that race this weekend and ice could easily interfere with that!

Here’s to hoping it’s something easier or that there will be snow farther North. It would be funny indeed if the Southeast’s only sled dog race was actually run on snow!

Here’s what http://www.weather.gov/view/prodsByState.php?state=tn&prodtype=zone had to say about the weather where the race will be held. The bold text is when I will be there:

.TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS 16 TO 19. LIGHT WINDS.
.WEDNESDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER TO MID 40S. LIGHT WINDS.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SNOW IN THE EVENING. SNOW
LIKELY AFTER MIDNIGHT…THEN SNOW EARLY IN THE MORNING. SNOW
ACCUMULATION UP TO 2 INCHES. LOWS IN THE UPPER 20S TO LOWER 30S.
EAST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH. CHANCE OF SNOW NEAR 100 PERCENT.
.THURSDAY…RAIN…A CHANCE OF FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET IN THE
MORNING…THEN A CHANCE OF RAIN IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE MID
30S. SOUTHEAST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION NEAR 100
PERCENT.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…CLOUDY. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN AND SNOW IN THE
EVENING…THEN A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SNOW AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN
THE MID TO UPPER 20S. SOUTHWEST WINDS 5 TO 15 MPH. CHANCE OF
PRECIPITATION 20 PERCENT.
.FRIDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SNOW IN THE MORNING…
THEN A SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE MID
TO UPPER 30S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 20 PERCENT.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW.
LOWS 18 TO 21.
.SATURDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW.
BRISK. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 20S TO LOWER 30S.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. BRISK. LOWS 7 TO 10.
.SUNDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID TO UPPER 20S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND 14.

Yep, looking interesting. It’s coming…