Brrrrrr...

It was only a couple of weeks ago that you heard the general public complaining, "We need some snow." It was not quite cold enough to snow then, pushing 40s. I'm sure all those people have completely forgotten what they were wishing for. First, we got some snow! Nice, fluffy snow. Then, progressively it got COLD. Almost too cold to even snow. Above was our thermometer yesterday morning reading 10 below zero. Poor Joe went out to snowblow the bottom of our driveway in it. Our local TV crew spotted him and filmed for a while. The frigid weather is our top news around here.
Now, this morning we woke up to even colder temperature (below). The good news is that today should be the coldest with negative temp highs.  

The crazy thing is that this still beats the damp high-humidity cold in Japan, where I don't think the temps hardly went below the freezing point while I grew up. Still, I do miss the Japanese style hot bath on cold days like this.