St. Louis is just as nuts. Went home to visit for the holidays one year. New Years Eve, was helping a friend change his brakes in sleet in the wee hours, temps hit the 70 during the day with a tornado within miles of my mom's home, and by the time midnight struck for the new year, it was snowing.
It's why I don't put any seasonal clothes into storage. You never know what you're going to get in this latitude. Now that I'm out here in the mid- Atlantic, I still don't put anything away and get cranky when hubby does and I have to hunt the storage bins.
I'm from Maryland and live in SoCal right now so I don't get winter anymore. DC area often doesn't get real winters anymore but it can. How much snow did you get?
When I was last there In 2018 DC area got the most rain ever in one year.
I know people who live in Denver and it's really crazy there, because of being so close to the sun, snows melt really fast and it goes up to 70.
There was a two day period during an October when I was in high school, where it was 93°F one day, then snowed 6 inches the next. I woke up and dressed in shorts and a t-shirt before I had looked outside (I had a basement bedroom), only to learn that school was called for winter weather when I went upstairs.
I tell this story to my midwestern in-laws, and they have trouble believing me.
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u/ThinkCandy22 Feb 22 '26
I kept thinking “there’s no way.” It was literally 50 degrees yesterday. But here we are looking at a winter storm warning.⚠️ 💀