And I thought I'd have knitting.....

..... but I have this instead. For those of you who really don't know, the "premier" weather forecasters are right here in State College. That would be Accuweather. You know that Elliot guy that you may hear on your local radio channel? He shops at Wegman's with me. Oh yeah, and the National Weather Service is based here too. And PSU has the top meteorology program (check out the live video and Bad Meteorology) in the country. In the last survey, 25% of all the working meteorologists graduated from Penn State. (Including a "TV weather reading" course where the students are required to "dress up" and read the weather in front of a green screen. To add insult to injury the course is always scheduled at 8:00am too!) We are pretty much weather central. So is it any wonder that we're all weather weenies.

Here what I see today on Accuweather:

TODAY. HEAVY SNOW IS LIKELY OVER THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS OF
PENNSYLVANIA...WITH A MIXTURE OF SLEET AND SNOW BETWEEN
INTERSTATE 80 AND ROUTE 22...AND MAINLY SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN
TO THE SOUTH OF ROUTE 22. TRAVEL WILL BE SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACTED
THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING.

We're in that band between 80 and 22. Now doesn't this sound like fun?

As late as the mid-nineties Accuweather was run out of three little houses on College Avenue. The roofs had satellite dishes, and unless you knew they were there, you completely passed them by. Sometime in the late nineties, they moved about 5 miles to a glass faced building that resembles [probably] Mission Control.

So these constant and ever evolving winter storms occupy most of our time on a much more "personal" level. We're pretty strange here, that's for sure.