# What's with the freaky weather this week? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 4, 2003, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-freaky-weather-this-week/166478 "2003-04-04T15:58:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-freaky-weather-this-week/166478/1 "2003-04-04T15:58:30Z")
We had snow on Sunday & Monday, Monday it [was snowing so hard in Baltimore that the baseball game was delayed](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030331/170/3oa2k.html). Yesterday the high at National was 81°! When I got home, the temperature was 83° in our condo even with the balcony door open! Hey, Mother Nature, will you please make up your mind? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-freaky-weather-this-week/166478/2 "2003-04-04T16:01:56Z")
Oh, and today it’s overcast; we’ll be lucky to break 70°. ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-freaky-weather-this-week/166478/3 "2003-04-04T16:15:56Z")
My friend in VA sent me gorgeous pictures of his backyard with flowers and a tree with pink blossoms, to show me that spring was on its way to RI soon since it was in full swing in VA. The next day he sent me a picture of that same tree, covered in like 7" of snow. Ugh. Winter must end. ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-freaky-weather-this-week/166478/4 "2003-04-04T16:18:16Z")
It’s been pretty consistent around here. Recap of Albany weather, 3/30/03 - 4/4/03: Sunday - snow Monday - chilly and damp Tuesday - snow Wednesday - chilly and damp Thursday - cold rain Friday - ice It’s paradise, I tell ya’. ---
**Author:** ![truthbot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@truthbot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/truthbot)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-freaky-weather-this-week/166478/5 "2003-04-04T19:37:27Z")
Well, Tuesday the temp hit 62 degrees. Wednesday it snowed, hailed and sleeted. Then again, I live in the Great Pacific NorthWet! All the weather is unusual, all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-freaky-weather-this-week/166478/6 "2003-04-04T19:42:43Z")
Correction, today we’ll be lucky to break 60°! 2:45 and it’s only 52° at National. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-freaky-weather-this-week/166478/7 "2003-04-04T20:25:33Z")
Figures the weather’d go schizo. I wore jeans all week; the first time I wear a skirt and sandals with bare legs, it freezes. When I get home, I’m changing to sweats. Robin ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-freaky-weather-this-week/166478/8 "2003-04-04T20:52:04Z")
Eh, so what? None of this weather is particularly exceptional, nor is the bouncing between the extremes, at this time of year. Wimps. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Anita\_Vacation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Anita\_Vacation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anita_Vacation)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-freaky-weather-this-week/166478/9 "2003-04-04T21:34:03Z")
I want to know what’s up with the stoopid Washington Post weather forecast. It’s always wrong, but today it was exceptionally wrong: High 80, partly sunny. The high today was in the mid 50s and it’s drizzling out there. You think I could sue the Post if my dog froze because they tricked my into leaving him outside all day? ---
**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-freaky-weather-this-week/166478/10 "2003-04-04T21:39:53Z")
Snowed like the dickens here, for a couple hours this morning, but it all pretty much melted when it hit the ground. Where’s my sunshine and flowers, dammit?! ---
**Author:** ![KeithT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@KeithT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KeithT)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-freaky-weather-this-week/166478/11 "2003-04-04T23:50:52Z")
It’s thunderstorming _and_ sleeting in Wisconsin this evening. Just a couple of days ago, it was 75. Honestly, it’s pretty typical for this time of year. ---
**Author:** ![MrVisible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-freaky-weather-this-week/166478/12 "2003-04-04T23:56:02Z")
I believe that the Earth’s core has stopped spinning. I’ve got some equations scribbled on a napkin around here somewhere that should explain everything… ---
**Author:** ![Daowajan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Daowajan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daowajan)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-freaky-weather-this-week/166478/13 "2003-04-05T00:35:57Z")
It’s snowing AND thundering here. I didn’t know that was even possible. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-freaky-weather-this-week/166478/14 "2003-04-05T00:44:55Z")
Ah, I don’t know. Lately it’s been the perfect sort of weather for breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow, feeding a little life with dried tubers. Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee with a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade, and went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, and drank coffee, and talked for an hour. Bin gar keine Russin, stamm’ aus Litauen, echt deutsch. And when we were children, staying at the archduke’s, my cousin’s, he took me out on a sled, and I was frightened. He said, Marie, Marie, hold on tight. And down we went. In the mountains, there you feel free. I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter. ---
**Author:** ![Skarlett244](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Skarlett244](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skarlett244)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-freaky-weather-this-week/166478/15 "2003-04-05T01:36:27Z")
There’s something like 10 major weather stats every day. And hundreds of days a years. And hundreds of towns reporting in any state. That makes for a lot of stats to be broken every day. ---
**Author:** ![DreadCthulhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DreadCthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreadCthulhu)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-freaky-weather-this-week/166478/16 "2003-04-05T06:00:51Z")
Here in Idaho, we had snow Monday and Tuesday, and it was ~70 degrees out today. That and lots of rain this week too. ---
**Author:** ![Canadagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Canadagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadagirl)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-freaky-weather-this-week/166478/17 "2003-04-05T14:25:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jeff Olsen \* > \*\*Correction, today we’ll be lucky to break 60°! 2:45 and it’s only 52° at National. \*\* 60?? A week and a half ago we had 70 here, and I went to the mall and bought some new clothes for spring. Big mistake. The day after, it got cold again and now I’m sitting inside with the temperature hovering around 30 with freezing rain- my track invitational scheduled for today was canceled because of it. Winter ain’t over yet. ---
**Author:** ![Humble\_Servant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/47e85d/32.png) [@Humble\_Servant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Humble_Servant)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-freaky-weather-this-week/166478/18 "2003-04-07T16:19:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ukulele Ike \* > \*\*Ah, I don’t know. Lately it’s been the perfect sort of weather for breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. > > Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow, feeding a little life with dried tubers. Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee with a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade, and went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, and drank coffee, and talked for an hour. Bin gar keine Russin, stamm’ aus Litauen, echt deutsch. > > And when we were children, staying at the archduke’s, my cousin’s, he took me out on a sled, and I was frightened. He said, Marie, Marie, hold on tight. And down we went. > > In the mountains, there you feel free. I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter. \*\* I didn’t want this post to go to waste. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-freaky-weather-this-week/166478/19 "2003-04-07T16:39:11Z")
Thundersnow is cool: [http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wlakeeff.htm](http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wlakeeff.htm) Happened to us one day this year too. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-freaky-weather-this-week/166478/20 "2003-04-07T16:57:14Z")
Back-door fronts; the forecast models have always been hopeless at dealing with them. You’d think the NWS would learn from experience: when it’s 48 and overcast with a NE wind three hours after sunrise, it ain’t gonna warm up that day.