It’s in the 40s and raining and will be similar for the rest of the week. Blahhh!!! 
We haven’t had much of a spring, the leaves are barely out on the trees yet. I hear it’s in the 80’s further south. This is, I think, the 3rd spring in a row that has been like this, really nasty cold weather. Has anyone got any good news for us New Englanders? Is there an arctic mass sitting over us that’s due to dissipate soon?!
Robin
I heard that it went to Arizona. It was in the triple digits there today. 
It’s been hot and humid here in the eastern part of Oklahoma. If we have such a thing as typical weather, that’s it.
That’s where we got the title “March in Ohio” for our CD - we did a medley of “Bleak Midwinter” and “Southwind” - explaining that you could have 70’s one day, and snow the next.
Missy
I hope, in all your planning, you ordered nice weather for this coming Saturday.
Rain, rain, go away…
Flydood - right now they are predicting:
Sunny - high 71, low 50…
we’re just hoping there isn’t too much rain on Friday - we need to get the stage into the ball field without leaving tread marks.
Missy
Spring is here, a-suh-puh-ring is here.
Life is skittles and life is beer.
I think the loveliest time of the year is the spring.
I do, don’t you? 'Course you do…
TOM LEHRER
But this -is- Spring! It’s a perfectly ordinary New England spring. For those not so
blessed, our seasons cycle thusly:
Spring begins when it goes above freezing and starts raining every day. It usually gets
nice and warm an sunny for one or two days every month, always on weekday, usually
towards the end of the week, just to make you think the weekend will be nice. Then it
gets cold again and rains all weekend.
Summer begins when the rain ends. The temperatures immediately skyrocket, and will
remain high until fall. Once the ground is thorughly baked, the summer rains begin. These
are brief thundershowers in the evening that give an impressive display of lightning, and
drop just enough rain to make it really muggy the next morning. Some ‘thundershowers’
may not bother showering at all. In no case will the rain actually ‘cool things off’, even
though everyone hopes it will.
Autumn begins with a cold snap, before you’ve harvested your tomatoes (if you garden).
Then comes the three days which makes all New Englanders swear that we love and adore
the change of seasons, indeed, we could not possibly do without them. The leaves change
color, and provide a spectacular show. Then they fall off and need to be raked up.
The remainder of Autumn is the dead season where it grows increasingly dark and chilly.
Winter arrives with the first snowstorm, which, despite what the calendars may claim about
Winter beginning in December, the first snowstorm will actually come in January. White
Christmas is a myth. (* Except, every few years, it snows for Thanksgiving and keeps going.
Just to keep you on your toes, y’know.)
Everybody enjoys the beautiful snow for a week, then it thaws, enough to melt it partly,
and freezes hard again. For the remainder of the winter, there will be a sheet of ice under
any newly fallen snow. Often, a quick thaw/freeze cycle gives you a crust of ice on top of
snow on top of a sheet of ice. Woe betide the fool who does not shovel the walk with every
snow, for the ice quickly becomes nigh impenetrable, and hazardous to work on.
Winter ends with one last massive snowstorm, usually after a week of ‘false spring’. False
spring is the region’s way of killing off alien plants - especially expensive ornamental flowers
Personally, I’m not minded to complain much of the current weather, as I know that all
too soon it will become unbearably hot. By comparison to that, what’s a little rain? 
–Chris
Chris wrote:
"The leaves change
color, and provide a spectacular show. Then they fall off and need to be raked up. "
I think the perfect thing for “genetic modification” in the plant world is to come up with a tree that had leaves that automatically turn to mulch particles as they fall from the trees. No more raking.
Missy
But raking is the fun part! 
How true Chris, but it’s 42 @!*# degrees and feels like Seattle in January!!! (actually, Seattle in October-April, but who’s counting…) I believe this is 10 degrees below “normal”. Give me some heat, baby.
Robin
My shutters are falling off. Number two is flapping around outside the house as we speak.
Robin
75 sunny degrees!
But the one thing that makes Spring complete for me,
That makes every Sunday a treat for me…
(Everybody join in now)
Maybe this will help: Top 10 Beaches in the USA for 2005, from Dr.Beach of course.
http://www.drbeach.org/drbeach/
Fort de Soto, St. Peterburg, Florida the number one beach.
MarkB
I forgot to mention that last weekend my wife and I went camping up at Tailor’s Falls. We planned it because it was the weekend that we were not doing anything. It was raining, so we couldn’t climb and were suppose to b e in the 50’s dipping into the 30’s at night. We tend to over plan such things, but Finals ended days before and the only thing we planed was climbing.
We has a new tent and a tarp that we set up and had a place to sleep and a dry table near the fire for once in a long time we just relaxed. The next day we slept in, made tea around ten, and cleaned up about noon. We finally took some trails and I had My flower book in a Ziplock bag, My wife had the climbing book to look for good spots for the next time we got up their. I found rue anemone, Swamp Buttercups, and a few others that I cannot remember right now. Even saw a few turkey vultures.
Often I feel so isolated from the earth because of the fact that from morning to night I am in buildings with quick dashes from building to car to building. Feeling the outdoors (hot, wet, cold, whatever), to me is one of the things I enjoy.
That picture disturbs me. It looks like he enjoys sitting on that sharp rock a little bit too much.
As a side note, I hear that Alaska has some really pristine coastline, but Alaskan beaches rarely (if ever) make any kind of list.
We just moved to New York State a month ago and my mom was treated to a flapping shutter outside her bedroom all night long. Good lord, no one told us about the weather and the wind up here. This spring has been cold . . . a little too cold for my tastes, but it sure beats heat. I hate hot and humid springs.
The cold spring we’re having . . . What is it, a north east coast thing? Is it all mid atlantic states, or is it just us?
I think it’s a psycho-weather thing. This is definitely not normal, it should be at least 50 and raining! 
Usually in May, I’m thinking how silly it is to wait until the official planting date of June 1 (official last frost), and worrying about planting when it’s too hot. It doesn’t seem so silly this year!
By the way, I have a 15,000 BTU air conditioner for sale…
Robin