North Carolina weather

I realise it would be remiss of me to complain about the weather when my family, friends and colleagues are suffering the dark, wet, cold weather of a Scottish winter. However, what is difficult to get to grips with in North Carolina is the wild temperature swings. You really need to keep an eye on the weather forecast, so you are not surprised by an Elon University weather alert telling you to seek shelter immediately, or closing the University. The temperature swings are sometimes as much as 15-20 degrees C difference from day to day!

The promised winter snow finally arrived this week. Everyone said it was weird there had been no snow so far, and I couldn’t quite believe it was coming when the weather had seemed so nice the previous days, but then the University announced it would close on Thursday afternoon at 2pm, despite the weather being apparently benign. But they were right – we had a full on blizzard for the next 10 hours!

The following day, despite being anything between -8 degrees C to 2 degrees C, was sunny and gorgeous, so despite having a PhD thesis I needed to read, I made sure I went out for a walk in the sun and to see the beautiful snow that was left. The picture at the top shows the back of our house. The sun quickly got to work melting it all though, and most of it has now gone. It shouldn’t surprise you to know that tomorrow, we are forecast full sun and 17 degrees C!

Thanks to some of the international students at Elon University being hardy enough to come out the night after the blizzard, a group of students from South East Asia came to the house yesterday and took over our kitchen and cooked delicious Cambodian food. In exchange for use of our kitchen and living room, Kristen and I were fed royally and then treated to a board game afterwards – ‘Secret Hitler’, which I’d never played before – and which was very good.

2 Replies to “North Carolina weather”

    1. Yes I’m trying to enjoy the sunshine wholeheartedly and not take it for granted, knowing how little sunshine some of my friends, family and colleagues are having in Scotland in February!

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