Completely off topic. Winter weather in New England is never dull; as they so often say, wait 5 minutes and it will change.
Yesterday it seemed as if whoever was in charge of the weather was cleaning out the closet of all of the weather that hadn't been used during the year. The hillier parts of the state had a long period of freezing rain, resulting in broken trees, downed power lines and power outages. Fortunately we were spared all of that. We just had a long stretch of cold rain, followed by a short period of hail, then freezing rain, then sleet, then some snow on top of everything. It was a mess to clean up this morning.
We did experience something I had never seen before - as a front was moving through, we had "thunder sleet". In the middle of a sleet segment, there was a flash of lightning and an extremely loud bang of thunder. Apparently when the air is colder, the thunder will reverberate more loudly than in summertime, for it sounded like a howitzer being fired - took me back to my days at Fort Sill.
Hope it is better where you are. New Year's Eve should be a lot quieter.
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