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Red Alert! Red Alert! Snow!
Even as a big-time weather geek, I get a little tired of the local media getting all wiggy about impending snowfall.  "Snow Advisory in effect!  3 to 5 inches of snow in the forecast!"

OK, yeah, that's a bit of snow.  And, it's apparently going to start this afternoon, just in time to make the evening commute messy (I feel for my Lovely Bride, who's got a haircut appointment tonight, and faces a long drive from school to get to the salon).  But.  Those 3-5" are going to fall between this afternoon and tomorrow afternoon.  That's not particularly heavy at any one time, and, unless the forecast is completely wrong, it shouldn't be enough to really snarl things.

I feel like people have gotten wimpy about bad weather.  Yes, it's true, you shouldn't be driving in a snowstorm -- nor should you be driving in an ice storm, like we had Saturday night.   It's people overreacting to a couple inches of snow that gets to me.

OTOH, this will be the first real snow we've gotten (we had a dusting on Thanksgiving, and a little bit before it turned to freezing rain on Saturday), and people always seem to forget how to drive in the snow.

At any rate, looks like I get to shovel tomorrow morning for the first time. :-)