It’s snowing. Not weird, I guess, if you’re ‘back east’ or in the mid-west. But this is Victoria! We had our spring flower count weeks ago. I was gardening two days ago.
Now there are giant, swirling, massive flakes coming down. I’m flabbergasted.
It basically hasn’t snown all winter here in Holland, and suddenly this weekend has been ‘cold’ (freezing mark plus or minus a 4 degrees) with a mix of every kind of precipitation imaginable. A month ago, the daffodils were out; this weekend, it snew on and off the whole time. It was fun to watch, through a window, of course
My early-bird kid woke me up claiming it had snowed in the night. I grumbled at him that it was just like yesterday, a couple of flakes mixed with hail, it was too warm to stick. He went away and then brought back a snowball. :eek:
I bought a (used) convertible on Friday - my first ever. I can therefore pretty much guarantee that we’ll never see Mr. Sun again. By August I expect that glaciers will once again be covering North America.
It snowed here today. In Georgia. Not the former Soviet Georgia, but Georgia in the southern US of Freaking A. It was 70+ degrees here the last few days. The azaleas are blooming. It won’t stick, cause the ground is probably 40 degrees above freezing. But it was snow.
We had a white Easter here in England, too. Well, in my back garden it didn’t actually settle except for maybe a quarter of an inch on bare soil, but a lot of places had proper snow.
And today in London it has been snowing on and off, quite heavily at times, but again not settling in town.
I swear March is now the coldest month of the year, what with the routinely mild winters we get now. I’m sure the stats don’t back me up, but it certainly feels that way.
While not the coldest month here in New England, this March has been miserably cold. We only hit the average temp/date 3 days all March. All the other days have been 4-11 degrees colder than normal. That means there’s still a ton of unmelted snow under the new snow we’ve gotten over the past 10 hours. Spring is an abstract concept for us.