Wednesday, December 23, 2009

That Big L on the Map Would be New Mexico

If you happened to be up around 7 AM Mountain (6 Pacific, 7 Central, 8 Eastern, 7:38 Erie County,PA time) and were looking at the Weather Channel site you would have noticed this big ole L on the U.S. map on the lower part of the map with a blob of white and pink around it.

That would be New Mexico where we are having snow today. People think of us as Phoenix but we are a lot higher in altitude. The further north you get the more mountainous it is and the more likely to have snow.

But at least here in Albuquerque we have a pretty good attitude toward. We just stay inside until it melts. Usually that's within 4 to 6 hours of the end of a storm. I'm glad no one is flying in to see us today.

6 comments:

terri said...

Stay inside? What? Go build a snowman! :-)

Lakeview Coffee Joe said...

Snow in Albuquerque. That's happened several times since I've known you. We had some here too, but not much and it did NOT melt. Crap.

Appropriately enough, my security word is "mensleds". Hah!!

Pulisha said...

Enjoy the snow! I am sitting here shivering in our 60 degree weather (hey, it gets down to the 40s at night!) ;)

Mike said...

Snow? In New Mexico? I never would have thought you folks got snow down there.

It's 52 here right now... which is unusually warm for this time of year - especially at night.

Anonymous said...

I'm with Terri, build a snowman! Or at least throw a snowball at someone.

alexis said...

we have snow here as well! Looks like it's going to be a wet winter everywhere