Singing the No-Snow Blues...

Jen is becoming obsessed with the weather. She has moved past temperature to focus on precipitation. We have about 2 inches on the ground that's here to stay – it's pretty convincingly white outside. But that's nothing we can't see in Maryland; Jen is hankering for a real storm.

This morning, she flipped open the laptop in bed and skipped right past the part of the weather.com page showing that it's minus-13 here, with minus-30 wind chill (this no longer impresses us), to study our forlorn radar map:

Nothing for hundreds of miles in every direction. "Bo-ring," Jen says.

Meanwhile, Maryland is set to be dealt a nasty ice storm this afternoon, and our home school system has thrown its doors open for the day. Jen theorizes that they were burned last week by closing for the day for a storm that amounted to nothing, and are unwisely overcompensating today. "Look at that storm map!" Jen exclaimed. "Why would you open schools if you know that's coming?":

Our pal Sue wrote in with an update from Maryland this morning: "We already have as much or more snow than we had the other day when they cancelled – and it is snowing now," she reports. "Silly Montgomery County."

Jen's newspaper offered to put staff up in hotels to ensure they would be able to get the paper out today and tomorrow; I thought it would be cool if winter weather kept Jen's entire newsroom home, and she had to run the deadline single-handedly from Fargo.