Snow melting, can spring be far behind?
02-20-14 | 09:39 PM
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02-20-14 | 10:05 PM
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02-23-14 | 12:12 PM
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Seeing as we got 9 inches of snow on Thursday and the predicted low for all week are going to be subzero I think Spring is still a ways out.
For what it's worth, a lot of the local water utilities are recommending leaving water running to keep the supply line from the street to the house from freezing.
For what it's worth, a lot of the local water utilities are recommending leaving water running to keep the supply line from the street to the house from freezing.
02-24-14 | 10:25 PM
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You guys got nothing. Winters in Colorado could benefit from a serious course of antipsychotic medication. Just yesterday our high of 60F occurred at 0435. Our low of 36F occurred at 1035 on the same day. To make it even worse, the temperature at my house at 0830 was 57F. Dropping 20+F or more in a couple of hours is not out of the ordinary around here in any time of year.
In the last 30 days, we have gone 60F to -15F back to 60F over 5 days. Lots of places have the "if you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes and it will change". Few places I've been will whipsaw you like Colorado Front Range weather.
In the last 30 days, we have gone 60F to -15F back to 60F over 5 days. Lots of places have the "if you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes and it will change". Few places I've been will whipsaw you like Colorado Front Range weather.
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02-25-14 | 09:43 PM
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it might snow here tomorrow.....when is warm weather going to stay?
02-26-14 | 04:38 AM
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Winter is long enough here that I mentally break it into segments.
Usually by Mid March (or not long after) we've had at least one extended thaw where a lot of the snow melts. We may get major snow storms and cold weather after that but those come in between warmer stretches.
April is often a mixed bag. 70 or 80 one week, then snow the next but it's possible it won't snow at all.
- Late November through December
- January
- February to Mid March
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Usually by Mid March (or not long after) we've had at least one extended thaw where a lot of the snow melts. We may get major snow storms and cold weather after that but those come in between warmer stretches.
April is often a mixed bag. 70 or 80 one week, then snow the next but it's possible it won't snow at all.
Visits to Virginia and South Carolina in March and April have convinced me that Spring in Boston is about one month behind the South, particularly for an early morning commuter. I recently posted about April:
It's supposed to approach 50 degrees today [2/22]...
...The triumph of optimism over experience.
It’s supposed to be 50° here too, but the streets are wet and puddled with salty water. So I'll be riding my salt-encrusted, studded-tires-mounted, heavy beater mountain bike. Last year, the first year of ownership, I vowed not to bring out my ultra carbon fiber road bike out until April at the earliest; experience trumps optimism, and optimism is on the run. 
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02-26-14 | 06:59 AM
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Only a month between SC and Boston? Sheesh, we vacation in Myrtle Beach and we plant our garden the week before on Memorial Day weekend. Following weekend we usually leave for SC. The weekend after that, we are hitting all the produce stands leaving Myrtle to have some of that yummy goodness early when we get home. They tell us the corn is about done when we are buying it. Then we get home and wait a good 3 months or more until we have corn and tomatoes here in north western PA.
