We just had a lovely spring-like weekend… sunny, warm(ish), and that wet grass smell that’s unmistakeably spring. I actually went out in my spring jacket instead of the parka I’ve been wearing for the past few months.
Which, of course, was just a tease. They’re calling for 5-10 cm of snow later today, possibly changing into freezing rain overnight. Mother Nature is on my shit list today. :mad:
So THAT’S what I was clearing off my driveway this a.m. - a couple of inches of the end of winter! 
Last week one day the sun was shining and the temp was up to the mid 30s, so I started up my fair weather car (62 Corvair), pulled it out of the garage and washed it in the driveway. Then over the weekend I put in several hours of KArate Kid “wax on/wax off” with the polishing compound and wax. Called up this a.m. and activated the insurance. Come on spring!
hurrmmpphhh. March averages out as our snowiest month with 25.5 inches. April is next with 24.7 inches. Winter is not nearly over here. It’ll start getting warmer. And with that comes the snow.
I noticed that the snow was thinner here in sunny Bancroft, and there were even a few patches of mud in sheltered areas. It’s breaking. Winter’s breaking.
Nah. Ypu’re thinking of Redmond. 
Okay, that’s just plain wrong. Easter is a spring festival. Sun and bunnies and eggs and new growth and all that. It celebrates our relase from the icy cage of winter.
You guys need to swap Easter and Thanksgiving (you know, the harvest festival?).
We got 8 inches of snow this morning. It is wet and heavy. That does not look like spring to me.
Based on the timestamp, I’m guessing you wrote that BEFORE the snowstorm started, yes? Because as I type this out, a few miles away in Toronto, it’s freakin’ white-out conditions outside.
The trip home is going to be a blast… it’s been so mild this winter that most of the city has completely forgotten how to cope with snow. :rolleyes:
It’s not snowing here, yet. Though the sky is clouded over.
I was able to run outside on relatively clear sidewalks yesterday and today. It was a comfortable temperature, about 20 degrees, with just a little wind. I hadn’t run outdoors yet this year, so I’m feeling much more optimistic about springtime.
Lucky bastard.
We’ve got about 3-4 cm of wet, heavy snow on the ground, and it’s not showing signs of letting up anytime soon. It’s gonna be a peach to shovel this crap later tonight, especially after it’s been packed hard from all the people walking on it.
If this is spring, I want winter back.
I’m expecting several days of above-freezing weather beginning Friday. Spring can’t come soon enough for me. Just getting rid of the damn snow will be a start, if it happens.
I’m able to see a small patch of ground under one of my trees. But I have a long way to go before I see ground in my yard. But maybe by the end of the week - we are supposed to be in the mid 30s or higher all week.
We’re not having much snow, but a bit of cold has returned (it’s -10ºC right now - -16 with the windchill - that’s 5 degrees for you holdouts); it’s not terribly cold, but it’s colder than I like at this “OHMYGOD IS WINTER EVER GOING TO BE OVER?” stage of the season. There’s a commercial that’s on right now (if anyone can think of the name and link it, that would be super) where the people are all crying because they’re so sick of winter - that’s us now.
Tho it snowed yesterday, it was warm enough that the walks and roads stayed clear. Saw on the weather that the average high this time of year is 38. So I called up and activated the insurance on my car. Next thing you know I’ll be swinging a golf club …
A full week of 40 degree days, plus two rains, and I’ve still got about 6" of snow in my front yard. We won’t even discuss the ten foot high mountain of snow, ice and sand that the County dumped on top of my mailbox.
It is getting lighter when I leave work though. This is the first year I’ve really just needed a quick weekend in Florida to brighten my spirits. . . it’s like the trapped feeling of being snowbound hasn’t left me.
We usually get our worst snows in March, so it doesn’t help that I totally believe it will happen again . . .
**Alpine: ** How do you guys cope? I mean, does everyone own a big snowblower? Or do you all drive monster trucks? Or is the shoveling the real reason Coloradans are always so fit?
Yep, I’ve been proven wrong once more, they ice age I keep predicting has been held at bay for a few more months.
Our lilacs and roses have leaves and I drove over 100 miles with the top down last week.
I don’t even caaaaaaaare, I’m going to the Philippines on Friday. It’s going to be in the 70s/80s. Gonna eat me some mangoes. Oh yeah.
My tulilps and daffodils are poking their leaves out. They’re in for a rude awakening…
Twickster, I live pretty close to you and had a similar experience. Just this afternoon I spotted my first Star of Bethlehem! Tiny white flower popping up through the melted snow in near the porch! Whoo-hoo!!!
Philadelphia had a crazy winter, huh? Our Magnolia had buds on it for the longest time. I swore it was my imagination. Right after the last big storm (You know, the one BEFORE the last snowfall and Mondays freezing rain, but AFTER the first few blizzards? Yeah, that one! ), I spoke to my dad who commented he lost many, many branches from his Magnolia and Dogwood. He was sad. They are beautiful trees that have been there forever. I was amazed that all his fallen Magnolia branches were filled with flower buds, too.
My neighbors on both sides lost multiple trees (big ones) including one that fell dangerously close to my van!
I always shovel our sidewalk, walkways, and driveway. That day I stayed inside and didn’t go out till after dark to sit on the front porch and check out the scenery. I was boggled by what I saw at the street. There was so much snow! GIANT pile across the sidewalk and the back of my vehicle.
But I shoveled! And, why is that pile like, 9 feet tall?!??
My van was almost completely buried. It took a few seconds for my brain to realize there was a tree underneath the avalanche! Amazing. One of the big trees that normally block the property line was no longer standing!
It fell across his front yard, across the sidewalk, limbs brushing the back of my van. Landed with it’s top in the street. All I could see was snow. Everywhere!
The Pine was so covered with snow that the weight just pulled it right out of the ground by the roots. It lifted a big sidewalk-sized square slab of concrete from the walkway leading up to his front door right out of the ground, too, by like 8-9 inches If not a foot. Of course that night all I could see was snow. Everywhere. No greenery, no walk way, no sidewalk. Could hardly see the back of my van. Seeing any detail took a couple days of melting. And shoveling.
But there will be flowers! Soon, even! I SAW ONE!!!
(Um, though maybe not until we get a little more snow.)
It snowed here last night, and the morning presented 5-10 cm of perfect packing snow. It was so mild here today: around freezing and misty. Supposed to be highs near -3C to freezing for the rest of the week.
Defi9nitely more springlike than before.
Our trees have buds on them and it was nearly 70 this weekend.
We’re getting snow tomorrow. :mad:
(it’ll probably only be about an inch, but still…I’m ready for Spring)