Icy What the Problem Is

You may have seen in the media that it’s unusually cold in the Northeastern United States at the moment (I mean it’s cold in other places too like Canada but you expect it to be colder than a polar bears arse in Canada).

Spring is Snow Fun!

I woke up this morning to a strong wind and a moderate snowstorm.

Unhappy Valentine’s Day

Last years Valentine’s Day was an unmitigated disaster owing to illness and a meltdown on the MBTA meaning we were waiting for over an hour in the cold for a train so we decided to stay at home this year. What could go wrong right? Apparently everything is the answer.

The Worst Beach in Boston

We escaped the huge snowstorm that has affected much of the east coast but we did get 6 inches of snow overnight so my first job of the day was shovelling.

Learning How To Winter

This week we had the first real snowfall of the year and the temperatures have dropped too. Walking to the train station in my inappropriate attire I realised a terrible truth

Winter Storm Juno: Photo Special

On Sunday I wrote here about my apprehension about my first big winter storm as a resident of Massachusetts. The storm was a whopper;

The Calm Before the Storm

This winter so far has been a pretty poor one with regard to snowfall and every day I have been checking the weather forecast like a kid watching the clock on Christmas Eve hoping for a little bit of the white stuff. Yesterday I got my wish; we had about six inches of snow where we live and we woke up to a world that had become white.

An Englishman’s Guide to Surviving Winter

This is my first winter in New England and the past week has been the coldest week that I’ve ever known; it hasn’t been above -5C all week and the temperature when I woke up on Thursday was -19C (-28C with wind-chill). Unless you were conceived and born in an Arctic research station that is pretty bloody cold. At that temperature exposed skin gets frost bite within 15 minutes.