My New Year’s doleful weather prediciton (or why I don’t go to Vegas and gamble).

On New Year’s Day, the air in Baltimore was dense and heavy. Nearly 60 degrees outside, humidity at 98 percent for the better part of the day, a dense fog covered the city and I wasn’t into it. Over the last few months of 2021, we didn’t experience any winter weather, and there we were—in the new year with temperatures 20 to 30 degrees above normal.

Fog. Baltimore, New Year’s Day 2022.

I took a photo of the scene from our terrace and shared my dissapointment on FaceBook saying, “Happy New Year, everyone. I’m not sure what all the continuing warm weather portends for 2022, but I’m not betting on any snow this year.”

Boy, was I wrong! (Mother Nature saw my bet and raised me.)

Sunday afternoon, I logged onto Twitter and saw a lot of buzz about a big snow storm headed for the mid-Atlantic states. At the time, the temperature was 63 degrees.

Really?

Really. This morning the view looked like this.

Snow. Baltimore, January 3, 2022.

Happy New Year everyone! Be kind to each other and let’s do epic things in 2022.

By Stephen Brockelman

As a Sr. Writer at T. Rowe Price, I work with a group of the best copywriters around. We belong to the broader creative team within Enterprise Creative, a part of Corporate Marketing Services. _____________________________________________ A long and winding road: My path to T. Rowe Price was more twisted than Fidelity’s green line. With scholarship in hand, I left Kansas at 18 to study theatre in New York. When my soap opera paychecks stopped coming from CBS and started coming from the show’s sponsor, Proctor & Gamble, I discovered the power of advertising and switched careers. Over the years I’ve owned an ad agency in San Francisco; worked for Norman Lear on All in the Family, Good Times, Sanford and Son, and the rest of his hit shows; and as a member of Directors Guild of America, I directed Desi Arnaz in his last television appearance— we remained friends until his death. In 1988 I began freelancing full time didn’t look back. In January 2012 my rep at Boss Group called and said, “I know you don’t want to commute and writing for the financial industry isn’t high on your wish list, but I have a gig with T. Rowe Price in Owings Mills…” I was a contractor for eight months, drank the corporate Kool-Aid, became a TRP associate that August, and today I find myself smiling more often than not.

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