The weather's here, wish you were beautiful

Actually, the weather's beautiful and I wish you were here. Our normal January thaw is lasting longer than usual and everybody's waiting for the other snowshoe to drop.

On the supposition that large weather events anywhere have some effect everywhere, go read everything you need to know about the current La Niña.

Might be best to read at bedtime, to wit:

Atmospheric indicators (in terms of sea-level pressure, winds, cloudiness, etc.) show this La Niña episode to be one of the strongest of the past century, while oceanic indicators have been at moderate to strong levels, with sea surface temperatures averaging around 1.5 degrees Celsius cooler than normal in the east-central tropical Pacific. There has been a robust ocean-atmospheric coupling, as evidenced by reduced cloudiness and stronger trade winds in association with cooler sea surface temperatures.

Much more...zzzzzzz...