Jaci Dawn

The god Janus is a two-faced god according to mythology. He is looking both to the future and the past, but in my mind, he is two-faced because he can’t decide what January weather ought to be like. Should Spring arrive with the first robins? Or should we shut down in an Arctic freeze as the Jet Stream drops down from the Yukon Territory onto the rest of North America?

We have had a mild winter so far. But this morning, we woke up to a smattering of snow on everything.

Well, almost everywhere. There wasn’t enough snow to fill in the gaps underneath trees or furniture.

It was pretty much gone by noon and despite several attempts to put down more snow, everything that has fallen from the heavens has melted just as quickly.

We get pretty excited about snow here in the temperate zone.

We have several days of cold and wet weather looming in our forecast, so the smattering of white stuff we had this morning could turn into something a bit more exciting. Or it could be a complete bust of meteorological hypothetical scenarios. Around here, there’s no way to know until you’re actually in the weather and it is (or isn’t) what was predicted.

Just yesterday the season’s first Spring American Robin was taking a bath in this (in the rain, mind you). Today, not a bird.

Apparently we are having both Spring and Winter this week.

(Hang on – there may be more weather-related posts as this week drags on. Because either we’re going to have a lot of snow and ice or it is going to rain and all the dire predictions will have flown off with the first robins.)

So while the rest of the Nation sniggers at our paltry amount of snow, we are hoping that this is the worst of the driving conditions here. No ice. And No More Snow during the work week.

Now why would I wish that when I learned how to drive in snow country? Oh, not for me. But for every other driver out there in Portland-land. Because this is what happens when a couple inches of snow fall in the Greater Portland Metro Area:

Ah yes, snow. I’ll be quite content if today’s smattering is all we get.
Happy Driving…