Chicago Public Schools are closed tomorrow.

Why's that a big deal?

Well the last time CPS got a snow day was 1999. Before that it was in the 70s. We could be looking at the biggest storm in the city's history.

Worst thing down here in La. is the wind's kicked up something fierce. Like, actually moving parked cars back and forth. It also doesn't help the guys who are putting up the Mardi Gras stands outside our building. They haven't secured all the planking, so during lunch they had several instances of large pieces of wood flying off the stands. They only had two guys working on a stand that essentially covered half a city block, which I thought was fucking ridiculous.

But before we went back to work, the rest of the work crew showed up to help.

It's going to get rainy, windy, and cold tonight. 30s, which is like summer weather for you folks up north. Last time we had the right conditions for snow was Christmas 2004.

It's quite nice across the pond at the moment - a couple of degrees of frost overnight (sometimes) and up to 8 degrees above freezing (for all you non-Celcius people ... seriously, get with the game dudes, zero is freezing point & 100 boiling) during the day.

I think I have you all beat now. There is a plow truck stuck in the snow across the street from my house. They were trying to back it up, but it wouldn't budge. The driver just got out with a snow shovel and is now trying to dig it out.

We need lots of photos otherwise I refuse to believe any of this - it's not on our news so it can't be happening (news is so slow they're having to fill the program with pictures of Egypt).

Nor'Easter coming our way Thursday night into Friday. WHAT. THE. FUCK.

Seriously? And I was miffed when we got a dusting over the weekend...

Who'd ya'll piss off up there?

It looks like it is going to get down to 50 degrees tonight here. Brrr.

Ever since the sub-zero month of December it's been quite mild in the UK this year. Not too cold in Jan, pretty mild winter temps in Feb, and bloody autumnal this month - flowers out and tree buds blossoming at the moment .... extremely un-British weather.

The British have taken our springtime. That, my friends, is an act of war.