Dear WJAR weather crew,

I understand that forecasting the weather is not an exact science, as Mother Nature is a fickle bitch and sometimes things get blown off course. I forgave you when your forecast for 6-8″ of snow last Monday turned out to be a dusting. But what happened today?

We started off with snow. It was light, puffy snow from the looks of it. Being a Rhode Island native, I checked the news to see what was expected (2-4″) and locked myself indoors where it’s safe. I mean, we only get snow 10 or 20 times a year, so it’s not like any of us know how to drive unless we’re tailgating a plow and the state closes up tighter than a gnat’s ass, right? No need for me to be out, so I opened the blinds and settled in to watch the snowflakes.

First we had some light snow. The flakes weren’t huge, but they weren’t flurries either, and there was probably about 2″ out there. Then it changed to much bigger flakes and came down a lot heavier for a while, giving us another 2″ or 3″ of it, but just as predicted it turned to rain, and so we got that for a little while after about 1pm.

And then the weather changed so much so fast that even you guys were confused.

First the wind picked up, blowing the rain sideways for a while, and at the same time the temperature dropped about 15 degrees in an hour. So now we’ve got about 5″ of snow on my street and a driving rainstorm that is freezing to anything it touches. Then the rain turned to snow again. Not the big flakes we’d had earlier, but again not flurries. Snow flying horizontally and even upwards and sustained winds of about 35mph. At this point, my windows are now covered with snow and I can’t see out them anymore. Imagine this scene now - snowflakes with anti-gravity properties, crazy winds, and to cap it all off, we start getting thunder and lightning.

At the last report, we were looking at the end of the bad weather and you were saying that the sun would be coming out soon. If by “soon” you really mean “tomorrow morning”, I’ll believe you.