It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like December through March

Signs of winter doldrums:

● Biggest plan for day = playing Scrabble in evening
● Scrabble plan = cancelled due to icy roads and sidewalks

Didn't end up going to that hockey game the other night, either, due to general exhaustion among me & the couple workfriends who were considering going.

There's an offchance Stu will make it over tonight to watch the Steelers/Bengals slogfest (sodfest? sobfest? time will tell) but I'm guessing this won't happen due to said road conditions.

Only another 3 or 4 months of this!

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It's hard to evaluate whether you're reading a good science blog or not, but RealClimate seems like a pretty legit one about global warming. Posts tend to start out accessibly & then gradually go over your head (my head, at least) but it seems well-reasoned and direct. This post about drying in the Mediterranean region is fairly disturbing, if nothing else for the generic point that regional weather patterns are vulnerable to change in a matter of a couple of decades.