The January Thaw always comes....

After the past few days like Thursday for example with a high of 15 and low of 5 its not surprising that Mountain Creeks trail count shot up like a rocket. All good things must come to end though, like Vermont :( I really miss the 6 feet of snow... Anyway, back to reality here in Jersey where snowfall is not so plentiful. After that extreme cold its only likely that we have extreme warmth, its natures way of trying to get us back to where we should be weather wise. The warm spell will get us into the 60's with no problems and I think 70 can sneak into South Jersey.

Like the cold spell the warm spell will not last forever... it may seem like it though because it will dominate the region for a about a week. Creek will be just fine and spring conditions will be the normal surface but its better than ice, or better than being closed like they were this time last year.

A saying that I made up myself is that "one extreme leads to another of the opposite" and the other is "opposite extremes equal massive explosion". And that is exactly what will happen, on the 14th of the month. Right now it is showing feet of snow but will that happen? The fact is we will get a storm on the 14th, no question about it, but what will the precip type be? It's been very hard to get snow in the I-80 corridor this year and my optimistic attitude has been beaten, stabbed, and thrown down the gutter, but it keeps coming back to me. The storm will bring nice fresh powder to Creek IF we all turn off our heat and put the air conditioners on... Ok, I lied, it will probably sleet again with our luck. lol. Check out this momma, expect a blog everyday to follow the Blizzard of 08'. I'm going to get yelled at for using the "B" word again....

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Don't get discouraged, our day will come and we will finally get the first Blizzard since 1996, which will be 12 years ago on this coming Tuesday the 8th of January...