Weather Commentary 2 - The Sequel
A month ago, I posted on how pitiful (snow-wise) this winter had been in Buffalo. Great for heating bills and wearing stylish shoes, but not great for winter sports and cooped up kids. I might not have complained so much except that we had just committed to ski club at Kissing Bridge and there was no chance for a refund. I was jonesin' for some powder.
Well, my prayers were answered today. This evening as I looked outside, I was delighted to see what my pal Joan calls "Movie Snow". You know, the kind of fluffy snow that falls so perfectly it looks orchestrated - waiting for someone to yell "cut!".
When I moved to here, I was naive to the different names Buffalonians have for snow conditions. Being from Boston, I just thought the options were limited to "Snow" or "Wickedpissa Blizzzeyhda78". (Yes, Beantown's biggie was one year after BFLO's blizzard of '77.) I soon learned about "Lake Effect Snow", "Snow Showers" and "Packin' Snow". When I first heard my father-in-law use that term I wondered "Packin'? Packin' what? Like packin' heat? Packin' a suitcase?" The answer is simple - packin' like packing a snowball. (duh!) And so I felt like a foreigner to Northern Canada learning a few of the dozens of Inuit words for snow. (For a spoof, check this out.)
While you can't make a snowman with tonight's snow, it is the perfect backdrop to set the mood for the Torino Olympics on TV. And maybe we'll take some gold-medal downhill techniques with us to the slopes tomorrow.
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Ski Report - Something special about Buffalo is that skiing is less than an hour away. After weeks of waiting, we had the perfect ski day at KB. Fresh groomed powder, sunny skies, no wind. Excellent! At the end of the day, we were back home in BFLO within 40 min. - having a beer in front of the fire.
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