i said something a few months ago about this area being shielded from nasty southern movements of cold air due to being nestled in between the great lakes, and that i'm going to have to get used to understanding the weather in terms of warm air moving north from the greater mississippi/ohio basin, as that's what was going to dominate it. i was trying to understand why it was so much warmer here than it was a few degrees to the north in ottawa. well, then we had an extreme/unusual push of cold air that just obliterated everything, south to florida....

but, this is a fast forward to thursday, and one can see that the cold air is being beaten back by warm air coming up from the valley. i think that's a season-changing event...

my stomach remains quiet, though. sorry.