It’s a bright sunny 14 degrees outside. South of Boston, we’re expecting 8+ inches of snow over night, a cold weekend and more snow next week. I love New England. I like all the seasonal variation. But enough already. It’s time to move on.
Just how sick are you of winter? specifically, this winter? It’s a constant in conversation around here. People who normally never complain about weather are begging for Spring. Or at least a glimmer of hope.
Are the Southern Hemisphere folks sick of summer? Send it our way.
I’m sure the Southern CA folks are sick of rain.
Pete Seeger and the Bible colaborated on a great song. It’s time for this season to TURN, TURN, TURN
It’s not just “winter”. It’s the dark, overcast, cloudy days. We’ve been averaging less than one sunny day a week (and it honestly seems like we haven’t seen the sun since, oh, October maybe). We’ve also supposedly been “warmer” than usual.
I have seriously been looking into getting a light box, but so far, I can’t justify the $200+ price tag for the correct bulbs.
But it has been so dang depressing around here this winter!
Of course, here in Ohio, we don’t have spring. We go right from winter to humid summer. If we do have spring, we have tornados.
As an asside - in my next life, I want to be a weatherperson. I want to have a job where I can be wrong 50% of the time and still keep my job.
We’ve had an amazingly mild winter here. Supposed to be 50 and sunny today–and close to that again tomorrow. I saw blooming crocuses and tulip leaves pushing out of the earth on a walk Monday. It’s on its way!
Ironically enough, a little bit of snow makes people in London grin and gasp with joy. We see snow so rarely, it’s nice to have some for a change. Today was predicted as the heavy snowfall of the week, but so far, nothing. After that it should get warmer again.
It’s the long dark evenings that depress me, more than the cold or wet weather. At least now I can leave the office before it’s fully dark.
The UK weather forecasters are actually suprisingly accurate these days. Gone are the days of “Scattered Showers with Sunny Periods”, or “there won’t be a hurricane this week”.
Woke up this morning to my usual 5:45 alarm…just a light frost on the ground, but something told me I should check the school web pages anyway–and they were closed due to pending snow, which is now falling in abundance.
Had to go ‘round turning off the girls’ alarm clocks which they’re slow to respond to even when they really have to get up.
We call this life in the cave. For the three dark months, from sundown Sunday to sunrise Saturaday, we never see our house in the day. I can’t decide which is more dreary - watching the sun rise from my desk at work, 40 miles from home, or seeing it set before I get back.
Since it’s SNOWING here AGAIN, I can say that I’m sick of winter. Enough is enough already! What’s driving me the nuttiest is how one day we’re at 70 degrees, and then the next day we’re at 25. It’s maddening!!!
Professionally speaking, I hate spring weather. I teach high school seniors. when the weather gets nice, the brains turn to mush. this is a scientifically poven fact.
Please send your rain and snow to Washington state. This is the 5th driest February on record, and our mountain snowpack is about 15%-30% of normal for this time of year. We’ll probably have water shortages this summer/fall. Yes, that’s water shortages in Seattle! We get most of our water from snow melt. Not enough snow in the mountains in winter means not enough water in the reservoirs in summer.
