{"id":9804,"date":"2025-12-28T03:44:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T03:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=9804"},"modified":"2025-12-28T18:07:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T18:07:14","slug":"blizzard-coming-december-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/blizzard-coming-december-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard Coming: December 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brendans-island.com\/blogsource\/20250726ff\/20251227-122825-0030UTC-US-658.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Weather map 00:30 UTC December 28, 2025: blizzard warning where I live.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be one of those weekends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the local forecast page Saturday evening:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Dense Fog Advisory until December 28, 06:00 AM CST<br>Blizzard Warning in effect from December 28, 09:00 AM CST until December 29, 06:00 AM CST<br>(Current conditions and forecast for <a href=\"https:\/\/forecast.weather.gov\/MapClick.php?lat=45.745218&amp;lon=-94.948122\">Sauk Centre Municipal Airport (KD39)<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Normally, I can see Our Lady of the Angels&#8217; bell tower from the north window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A little after noon on Saturday, it was visible: but only as a gray shape in the grayness cloaking my part of the world. It&#8217;s two blocks away \u2014 something like six or seven hundred feet. Call it 200 meters, give or take a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later that afternoon, All that showed above the leafless trees was grayness. The trees themselves weren&#8217;t so much trees as general outlines of trees, rendered in pale monochrome watercolor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s been a very foggy day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a slight chance of freezing rain before the snow starts, and the odds are that the fog will freeze on roads and sidewalks in at least a few places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The good news is that these days we have pretty good weather data and forecasting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It hasn&#8217;t always been that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My mother talked about a particularly bad storm in the Red River Valley. It wasn&#8217;t just severe: it had started on a mild, beautiful day with Courier-and-Ives flakes of snow drifting down. Folks hitched up their sleighs\/sleds\/whatever and went out to enjoy a winter ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then the wind picked up, the temperature went down, and snow started coming in wholesale lots. Some folks didn&#8217;t make it home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can&#8217;t say which storm that was. It <strong>might<\/strong> be this one:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.und.edu\/gf-city-photos\/187\/\">Blizzard of 1896<\/a>&#8221; <br>Grand Forks Photographic Collection, University of North Dakota Scholarly Commons<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>But much more probably was another one, a bit more recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to try sorting that out now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, I see that some of the New England states are experiencing a winter weather advisory. I hope folks there either have the equipment needed, or know someone who does; and have an insulated, heated place to stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s going to be one of those weekends. From the local forecast page Saturday evening: Dense Fog Advisory until December 28, 06:00 AM CSTBlizzard Warning in effect from December 28, 09:00 AM CST until December 29, 06:00 AM CST(Current conditions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/blizzard-coming-december-2025\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"A weather map, warnings from the National Weather Service; and ramblings from someone who has seen quite a few Upper Midwest winters.","jetpack_seo_html_title":"Blizzard Coming: December 2025","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[154,192],"tags":[27,194,132],"class_list":["post-9804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discursive-detours","category-journal","tag-history","tag-minnesota","tag-weather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Dwtw-2y8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9804"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9811,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9804\/revisions\/9811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}