# What happened to spring? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 12, 2004, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-spring/268904 "2004-10-12T23:42:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-spring/268904/1 "2004-10-12T23:42:19Z")
It’s only mid-October, and already the hot weather has arrived. Yesterday the maximum temperature was 35º. Today it’s predicted to be 38º. I want my pleasant spring days back! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-spring/268904/2 "2004-10-12T23:56:43Z")
[Coily the Evil Sprite]No Springs! hee hee hee[/CtES] ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-spring/268904/3 "2004-10-13T00:51:38Z")
Cirse you Southern-Hemisphereans with your broad open spring-enhanced lands, refuges far around the round earth, refuges that give shelter to Spring when she flees Canada, driven by the grinding grey bulk of Winter that obtrudes over our northern horizon, heralded by the dreaded cold rains of November… _sob_ ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-spring/268904/4 "2004-10-13T01:35:01Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Cirse you Southern-Hemisphereans with your broad open spring-enhanced lands, refuges far around the round earth, refuges that give shelter to Spring when she flees Canada, driven by the grinding grey bulk of Winter that obtrudes over our northern horizon, heralded by the dreaded cold rains of November… > > _sob_ Well, can you please send some of those dreaded cold rains our way **Sunspace**? We’re very badly drought-stricken and I \*\*loathe \*\* the heat. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-spring/268904/5 "2004-10-13T01:53:34Z")
One degree above freezing and wet? Be glad to send some your way, when it arrives in a few weeks. 🙂 (Right now it’s superbly-beautiful fall weather: brisk, almost frosty in the mornings, with the brilliant leaf colours standing out against the pale-blue sky. [sub](Cold Weather[sup]tm[/sup] FOB Toronto. Some assembly required. Prices slightly higher west of the Rockies. Batteries not included. May contain small parts; not suitable for children under 3. All products not necessarily in stock. Allow six to eight weeks for delivery. )[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-spring/268904/6 "2004-10-13T02:02:52Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > It’s only mid-October, and already the hot weather has arrived. Yesterday the maximum temperature was 35º. Today it’s predicted to be 38º. I want my pleasant spring days back! Odd, it’s about the same up here. Maybe a few degrees warmer, but still, very, very similiar, temperature-wise. Oh wait, did he mean degrees celsius? I was talkin’ farenheit. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Primaflora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Primaflora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Primaflora)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-spring/268904/7 "2004-10-13T02:36:19Z")
It’s pretty warm here but not quite as hot as Sydney… I want to know why we’ve gone straight to bushfire season. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-spring/268904/8 "2004-10-13T04:01:44Z")
> [@Athena](#): > > Oh wait, did he mean degrees celsius? I was talkin’ farenheit. 😃 Well, of course I’m talking about degrees celsius, **Athena**. It’s 30 years since we’ve used those antiquated farenheit things. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-spring/268904/9 "2004-10-13T04:39:49Z")
World-wide political ill winds are the cause. Mother Nature is not a happy camper. 😃