Arctic Chill

The next few days will bring big changes to our weather after what has been a relatively mild winter so far.  It looks as if Highlands will not escape the upcoming arctic chill.  In fact, the Weather Channel map this morning shows the jet stream passing directly over us.

I can almost feel that big, blue streak of arctic air, straight out of the west, going right through the hapless runner despite all the extra layers of clothing!  And there might be snow, as well, although there is some difference of opinion on that point.  The local WLOS-TV forecast predicts some snow showers, and temperatures in the teens:  a rough week ahead. 

I used to be more "Hard Core," I guess.  But these days when the temperature dips into the 20s and lower and the wind chill leaves fingers numb and tingling for a long time afterward, I long for those warmer places where we hope to be running in a couple of weeks, thanks once again to the gracious offer from Martha's Aunt Lizette of the use of her condo in Atlantic Beach, NC.

The past two years we escaped just in the nick of time - in fact, it seemed both years as if snowstorms followed on our heels as we fled Highlands.  This time it looks like we may not have made it in time.