It has been unusually warm the past couple of weeks — highs in the low 60’s F this week, lows above freezing — so most of the snow has melted down here. There is still a lot of snow in places up in the mountains, but it’s been mud season on the roads. Andy has been driving about 3 miles an hour on our road because the mud on the frozen ground underneath would throw him in a ditch if he went any faster. He says the road is gradually drying out, so I plan go up with him in a week or so.
The snow on the roof has melted, so he took the Christmas tree down this past Sunday, and the clover and some wildflower plants are starting to come up in the snow-free areas. It acts like Spring already, but we’ll have to see.
What’s the weather like where you are? Anything unusual?
February 17, 2016
Looks like you are on the upward slope to spring! Hope it’s an early one. I grew up on the prairies, and I remember the excitement we felt when the weather started to warm up!
Actually I don’t mind winter here. We get a lot of sunshine, and the extreme cold doesn’t last that long. I imagine your winters were a lot more severe. That, I wouldn’t like!
by friday it will be almost 80 here. it’s been in the 70’s the last few days.
we need SOME kind of moisture desperately!
we’re having 30 knot winds and now fires of course.
houses have burned down in tulsa today. and the wind keeps blowing.
I remember ‘mud season’ in snow areas we used to live in growing up!
oh my!
We’re starting to get warnings about fire, too. We haven’t gotten as much precipitation as we expected from this el Niño, but they say maybe next month. Fingers crossed.
we have had our usual amount of “maybe a cyclone will arrive and batter parts of NZ from the Pacific” usually that means badness but so far just a lot of wind, thunder & rain and then it’s gone…at the time it often cools down a bit to a point where you think you might need a lite jacket.
[that’s in my region, other places haven’t been as lucky]
then it’s back to hotter than hell…humidity and sun mixed together…and a breeze that might be slightly cooler or might not be!
of course, I couldn’t tell you if that’s different or not as somehow over the years I have just lost track of weather patterns/boffins and so forth…
I would hate your humid heat. We had enough of that when we lived in upstate New York. We tend to wilt in it.
Our climate has been erratic to say the least. We are seeing heat like as though it is already summer though we are supposed to be in the spring season.
That’s too bad. As I’ve said before, we wilt when the weather gets too hot.