Cold-Spell Gone, Not Forgotten

With the clipper out of the way, let’s take a look at what it actually brought. Accuweather provides a nice monthly record of temperatures for a given location; check out January’s temperatures (thus far) right here. It seems we only got as cold as –2 degrees Fahrenheit on two occasions; January 10th, and January 15th (the clipper-induced low). I’m not counting my chickens yet…January isn’t over! However if –2 is the lowest we will see this winter, then we are looking at another year of sweet, sultry zone 6.

Alberta Clipper

It's coming. Within the next few days. It may actually bring our yearly low in Central New York. What am I talking about? Why, the low-pressure system sometimes called the 'Alberta Clipper', infamous for chilling any garden in its path. Accuweather.com claims that our coldest will be 0 or -1 degrees on Thursday. Of course this can change at any time, but hovering around 0 is still comfortably within zone 6. Hopefully this will be our low for this winter (I believe last winter's low was -4 degrees Fahrenheit for Syracuse). It doesn't appear that we're going to get our 70 degree January day this year! Oh well, I'd just be happy with another zone 6 winter.