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Spring is trying really hard

While browsing through AccuWeather’s fifteen day forecast, I was rather impressed by the number of days we have coming up that are above freezing. Not only above freezing, but a few of them are downright spring-like. In February.

2/17 - 41° 2/25 - 50° 2/18 - 55° 2/26 - 41° 2/19 - 44° 2/27 - 37° 2/20 - 34° 2/28 - 34° 2/21 - 30° 2/29 - 34° 2/22 - 30° 3/01 - 44° 2/23 - 37° 3/02 - 45° 2/24 - 41°

My recollections may indeed be faulty, but I don’t remember many Februaries this warm. Yet, AccuWeather says the normal average temps for February are in the mid-30s. If that’s the case, I don’t think we’ve had all that many normal Februaries in recent memory. What I recall are strings of single digit days and watching my woodpile dwindle at an alarming rate. This year, it looks as if we’re going to hew more to the norms. And I am positively thrilled. Anything above freezing starts to feel like spring at this point. This has been a lonnngggg winter. It started, in earnest, in October.

Winter and spring are going to duke it out the rest of this month with spring coming out on top, hopefully. We still have March, which looks as if it’ll come in like a lamb (and go out like a lion??), and April to go. There’s bound to be at least one more major snow storm. But I like to imagine warm temps and green grass just around the corner. See what a muddle I am? I don’t like grass all that much, but this monotone landscape is getting to me! It must be cabin fever. I want out. I don’t want to wait until April to see grass. I want to go out in mild March temperatures and dig in dirt that isn’t still buried under two feet of snow. That’s not asking too much, is it?

Posted on 02/17/08 at 02:52 PM

hmmmm, not sure I would call those temps spring!! But better than they have been..already 56 this morning, of course it is pouring rain and foggy, but definitely warmer.

My cat is BS cause she wants OUT, she loves being outside and of course the temperature today is just perfect. So, I let her out; just as I did, a huge gust of wind kicked up and she got drenched. Not happy!! She loves water, washes up in it all the time, plays in it all the time but typical female ;) she likes to choose where and when!!

However, back to spring--the birds are definitely sounding like spring now. I have noticed for the last week, the songs are different, the sounds are different, so they are ready!! Me, too!! Gosh, since we had--are having--a real NE winter this year, maybe, GASP, maybe we will actually have a spring too. Wouldn’t that be a treat!!

Posted by cyn on 02/18/08 at 10:01 AM

It is now 58° here and the back door is open. It’s not all that much cooler outside than in, so why not? ;) I wish my sense of smell was working...I’d like to know if there is a wet sack of clams smell in the air. If there was, that would be my signal that spring has sprung. I’m sure it’s not there yet, though.

As I said, anything above freezing right now feels spring-ish. And, with 8 days out of 15 being 40° or above, spring is definitely trying. Winter will probably try to beat it half to death and stuff it back in its box and come back with renewed frenzy in March. It would be nice to have more than two weeks of spring before summer hits.

My chickadees are singing sweet spring songs now. I thought I caught a cardinal’s spring song yesterday, too. I’m not hearing much else yet.

Abbie is fascinated by the open door and fresh air, too. She tried to make her big escape this morning and didn’t find it to her liking. Too much wet and ice and snow still out there. She brought herself back inside with utmost speed.

I’m thrilled to see a lot of snow melting today. There is bare ground visible in patches across the street. It’s not green, but progress is still progress.

Posted by Kate on 02/18/08 at 03:00 PM

It’s much to warm here in interior BC, considering it’s still Feb. More evidence of global warming it seems. Give me a nice heavy snowfall, any day. I love spring but not this early, not good for the planet either.