Gonna Get A Little "Slickery"

Clouds are covering the sky this morning, and the pre-dawn sun is making for a colorful eastern horizon. Remember the old saying; "red sky at morning...sailor take warning, red sky at night...sailor's delight"? Now I don't know how many sailors are around here, especially at this time of the year, but that red sky this morning does portend some not so nice weather ahead. That will come later tonight into tomorrow morning in the form of a little snow, sleet and freezing rain. The worst of it will be centered around the hours of 3am to 10am Saturday, as warm and moist air from the Pacific starts to move in over the chilly and very dry air that is already here. The progression will be like this. Light snow will begin sometime after midnight. That will turn over to some sleet (ice pellets) before daybreak, after an inch or so of snow has fallen. The precipitation will probably turn to liquid around sunrise or shortly after, with ground temperatures still below freezing. That means that the rain will freeze on contact creating icy streets, sidewalks, driveways, trees, cats, etc... There won't be a lot of ice building up, just enough to be a nuisance to those of us that have to get up early and drive 15 miles to referee basketball games at 8:00am. Temperatures should get above freezing by late morning and conditions will rapidly improve. From there a much milder weather pattern will be with us through most of next week so the snow and ice will melt away again. Highs today will be in the upper 20s, tomorrow the mid 30s, then we should be near 40 degrees for several days.

Today is Friday, so there will be some tennis, some work at the church, and some basketball to officiate. When it is all done, I hear there will be turkey pot pie for dinner...good stuff! My main concern at the church today will be unclogging the sinks in the basement. The quilting ladies reported to me yesterday that they were not operating as designed, so I'll have at it in a little while. It could be interesting though, as I have not had the drain opening course in my seminary curriculum yet.