# Mother Nature is a Mother ^%\*&\*%\* **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 20, 2008, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mother-nature-is-a-mother/442071 "2008-03-20T14:51:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2008, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mother-nature-is-a-mother/442071/41 "2008-03-23T03:06:34Z")
[QUOTE=Joey P] About 60% of our snow melted over the last few days, so at least this is like a fresh start. [/QUOTE] I missed this earlier… What was the temperature there when the melting happened? It’s still predicted to be in the 30s five out of the next seven days, but I keep hoping it will melt soon. Right now it seems like an impossible dream ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2008, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mother-nature-is-a-mother/442071/42 "2008-03-23T05:44:17Z")
[QUOTE=elfkin477] I missed this earlier… What was the temperature there when the melting happened? It’s still predicted to be in the 30s five out of the next seven days, but I keep hoping it will melt soon. Right now it seems like an impossible dream ☹ [/QUOTE] 10 day forcast on [weather.com](http://weather.com) for my area had the high temp at 35 or higher for the next ten days and the low temp at or above freezing for 6 out of the next ten. I would guess all the snow will be gone soon. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2008, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mother-nature-is-a-mother/442071/43 "2008-03-23T13:38:23Z")
[QUOTE=elfkin477] It’s very wrong when people are looking forward to [mud season](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_season), but we are. [/QUOTE] So am I. I havn’t seen our road for 6 months. I’ll plow today. Not that I’ll be able to get down to dirt. But I need to try to push the white stuff back while I can. Make hay while the sun shines. It’s going to be a nice day. The drywall in our mud room/entry way is pretty much destroyed. Ice dams. Leaks. First time in 15 years that I have lived here. Oh well. More work to do. I am way more fortunate than the folks being flooded in the midwest. ---
**Author:** ![Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rascal_s_Mom)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2008, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mother-nature-is-a-mother/442071/44 "2008-03-23T14:55:20Z")
[QUOTE=elfkin477] I missed this earlier… What was the temperature there when the melting happened? It’s still predicted to be in the 30s five out of the next seven days, but I keep hoping it will melt soon. Right now it seems like an impossible dream ☹ [/QUOTE] Up until Friday, day before yesterday, and I’m not checking records here, just my faulty memory, it was in the 30’s and 40’s, but the key fact is that it was sunny much of the time. ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2008, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mother-nature-is-a-mother/442071/45 "2008-03-23T22:14:30Z")
Ahem. . . National Weather Service sez: ```auto High Low Easter 76 58 Monday 68 46 Tuesday 68 54 Wednesday 74 60 Thursday 78 64 ``` Also, the rain has cleared out and it’s either mostly sunny or partly cloudy. I’m liking it, too, cause it has been quite a bit warmer this time of year for the past 10 years or so. It’s nice to get a springtime this year. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2008, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mother-nature-is-a-mother/442071/46 "2008-03-23T23:30:40Z")
Y’know, Cecil was right in a column years ago about how the idea that the date of the equinox is “the first day of Spring” [substitute appropriate season and “solstice” as you see convenient] is a fallacy perpetrated by weathermen who wanted to make the astronomical phenomenon somehow interesting to the mass audience and to satisfy a need for seasonal symmetry and some sort of hard-and-fast starting and ending date. From my POV, admittedly shaped by having grown up in a tropical environment(\*), I do NOT expect “spring” to be up and running before April in the northern half of the USA. Having spent some days last week driving around the Mid-Atlantic coast, I could feel how frustrating this could be. Late March/early April travel to the region always means an extra piece of luggage in order to bring along the just-in-case heavy coat/extra layers. (\*Where we have our own issues, such as people who insist that “hurricane season” runs exactly from June to November and thus no readiness need be maintained before or after… ) ---
**Author:** ![Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rascal_s_Mom)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2008, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mother-nature-is-a-mother/442071/47 "2008-03-23T23:36:34Z")
[QUOTE=JRDelirious] Y’know, Cecil was right in a column years ago about how the idea that the date of the equinox is “the first day of Spring” [substitute appropriate season and “solstice” as you see convenient] is a fallacy perpetrated by weathermen who wanted to make the astronomical phenomenon somehow interesting to the mass audience and to satisfy a need for seasonal symmetry and some sort of hard-and-fast starting and ending date. From my POV, admittedly shaped by having grown up in a tropical environment(\*), I do NOT expect “spring” to be up and running before April in the northern half of the USA. Having spent some days last week driving around the Mid-Atlantic coast, I could feel how frustrating this could be. Late March/early April travel to the region always means an extra piece of luggage in order to bring along the just-in-case heavy coat/extra layers. (\*Where we have our own issues, such as people who insist that “hurricane season” runs exactly from June to November and thus no readiness need be maintained before or after… ) [/QUOTE] Actually, in this area of the country, no one looks at the weather to magically transform our world to green-ness and flowers on the first day of spring. For me anyway, it’s just a benchmark for when we can anticipate fewer crappy weather days. It’s just that this winter has been relentless in terms of sheer quantity of blizzards and crappy driving weather. It is old, old, old. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mother-nature-is-a-mother/442071.md?page=2)