The edge of the blizzard...

[alexpgp]

Living out in the boonies doesn't get you much in the way of valuable weather information. Back before everyone went digital, we used to get Albuquerque stations on our TV, and I personally found the weather coverage from New Mexico more useful than similar reports (more precisely, lack of reports) from Denver-based Colorado stations.

In any event, the Denver weather dweebs have been carrying on about a blizzard they were expecting up around their neck of the woods, and fortunately, we only caught the edge of the weather system. The wind has been blowing fairly strongly, to the point where a snowflake that passes by my eyeball is more than likely to land in New Mexico—about 15 miles away—than anywhere around here.

Between a couple of trips to the grocery store for provisions for tomorrow's holiday, I've managed to finish and send off all of the items due today and Friday for one client, and put a good dent in a contract due by COB Friday. Call it a 2,500-source-word day.

* * *As a show of support for DRM-free Kindle books, I've bought the latest offering from the folks that publish 2600 (2600: The Hacker Digest - Volume 26) and have already learned a couple of new tricks, one of which might end up applied to my work laptop.

* * *Keep on truckin'.

Cheers...

Comments

[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

This is the internet age. The NWS has specific forecasts (http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Pagosa+Springs&state=CO&site=GJT&textField1=37.24&textField2=-107.03). You can even plug your gps coordinates in to get something more specific, which is what I do and then bookmark it ;)

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

I am a weather groupie above all other things. And yet I have the darndest time getting weather reports the way I like them. And I live in a highly populated area!

On the plus side, someone just 2 miles from here has a very elaborate weather set up. I can look up the changing humidity hour by hour, the wind direction hour by hour, and everything else.

But what I want, and can't find, is the radar map that shows the intensity of the rain as it comes into our area. Then, when it is raining, I would like to see a play by play of how much rain is falling, hour by hour.

Again, maybe that's simply because it doesn't rain here very much.