I can see no redeeming features in the forecast for the next day or so:

TAF CYOW 240238Z 2403/2424 05005KT P6SM OVC040 TEMPO 2406/2408 P6SM -SN BKN020 OVC040
FM240800 03005KT P6SM -SN FEW010 BKN020 OVC040 TEMPO 2408/2410 P6SM NSW BKN025 OVC040
FM241000 02005KT P6SM -SN SCT008 OVC020 TEMPO 2410/2414 3SM -SN BKN008 OVC020 PROB30 2410/2414 2SM -SN -FZDZ BR OVC004
FM241400 05010KT 11/2SM -SN OVC008 TEMPO 2414/2417 3SM -SN OVC020
FM241700 06015G25KT 1/2SM SN BLSN VV005
FM242000 07015G25KT 1SM -SNPL OVC006 PROB30 2420/2422 1/2SM SN BLSN
FM242300 07015G25KT 2SM -FZRA BR OVC006
RMK NXT FCST BY 240600Z=

Light snow. Light snow with light freezin drizzle. Moderate snow. Blowing snow. Snow pellets. Light freezing rain. And increasing amounts of wind as time marches on.

Nope, not a single redeeming feature.

So, a quick recap of this week:

• Bloody freezing cold
• Ludicrous amounts of snow
• A bit more snow
• Cold

And now this:

TAF AMD CYOW 200030Z 2000/2024 09015KT 3/4SM -TSSN OVC015
TEMPO 2000/2001 2SM -SN OVC020
FM200100 09014KT 2SM -SN OVC015
TEMPO 2001/2003 6SM -SN
FM200300 11015KT 11/2SM -SN VV012
TEMPO 2003/2011 1/2SM SN VV005 PROB30 2003/2007 3/8SM SHSN
FM201100 19015G25KT 2SM -RA BR SCT008 OVC015
FM201500 24020G30KT P6SM -SHRA OVC020
FM201900 24015G25KT P6SM -SHRA OVC030
RMK NXT FCST BY 200300Z

Essentially, light thundersnow (!) with periods of light snow followed by light snow with periods of moderate snow and possible snow showers. Then light rain and mist, silly amounts of wind with light rain showers. All between 7pm this evening and 2pm Saturday.

As anyone who has a blog knows, there’s a whole lot of spammers out there trying to promote their crap stuff via comments on other people’s blogs. Naturally, tools like Akismet have been developed to automatically identify likely spam and generally make life harder for the spammers.

Akismet is very good at what it does. Any comments it suspects are spam end up in a queue in WordPress for later review. That review usually consists on quickly skimming the list of comments and then hitting the “Empty Spam” button because Akismet rarely makes a mistake.

Lately, one persistent spammer trying to push vitamin C serum has been consistently hitting a post I wrote about graffiti and posting one single comment. And every time I see the notification on the backend “There’s 1 comment in your spam queue right now”, I check out the queue and  hit the “Empty Spam” button.

A little while later, the “There’s 1 comment in your spam queue right now” is back and sure enough, another vitamin C spam. It’s getting kind of monotonous. The least they could do is change it up a bit so I have something new to read before I delete it.

Oh look: “There’s 1 comment in your spam queue right now”. Again. (Seriously.)