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Spring, yeah ok. It was 24 with light snow flurries at 7:30 this morning. SW Va.
It was 28F here yesterday afternoon when the sun was at its highest. Then it warmed to 32F at midnight, and then temperatures have been steadily dropping even after sunrise. Now it's 23F. Hard to say winter is over when the passage of cold/warm air masses are able to over-ride the impact of day vs night.
Thursday morning is supposed to be 14F. Friday morning is supposed to be just 12F.
Over the period of Mar 18-24, the mean temperature should end up being around 25F. That's the coldest 7 day period since Feb 14-20 (21F), and before that, the last time it was this cold was mid-January, when it was significantly colder, with Jan 14-20 averaging at 10F.
Here in Albuquerque, my daffodils have been blooming about 5 days earlier each year since first planting the bulbs, but I think it is a factor of their multiplying, so there are just more of them, so some of them are bound to open up early, and others late. I only record when the first one blooms.
The more telling spring event for me here is when the Bradford pear trees bloom around town. They used to bloom pretty consistently about the 3rd-4th week of March, but in recent years they've been as much as 3 weeks earlier. This year, they are only about a week early, so what the OP stated seems right to me.
About three miles east of me, at 10,000 feet, the Sandia Mountains still have about 4 feet of snow. Typically, precipitation there falls as snow into early May, and is mostly melted by June. It's a much more reliable winter recreation area than almost anywhere east of the Rockies. Attaching today's snow depth map.
Wonderful spring happening in Charlotte NC although my adult niece thinks it's been too much rain not enough sun.
She moved here from Texas a year ago so that is her perspective (not mine).
We moved here from Florida 5 years ago and having a real spring season lets me enjoy flowering trees and getting my seeds started for summer veggies.
It's been 60s temps in daytime and 30s at night (non-freezing) my favorite weather. Sunny today and yesterday, more rain this week but a sunny Easter weekend coming up.
We don't get much of a spring anymore in SE Va. We have had 3 days already, over 80.
I've already cut the grass 3 times.
Well, at least it doesn't feel like winter down there anymore. We're been getting snow flurries three days in a row here. We got crocuses and other early spring flowers but daffodils are for the most part still a week or so from blooming.
Well, at least it doesn't feel like winter down there anymore. We're been getting snow flurries three days in a row here. We got crocuses and other early spring flowers but daffodils are for the most part still a week or so from blooming.
I prefer the cold weather. I wouldn't mind spring if we actually got a real spring. Our summers are pure misery and seem to last for 5 months now. Ugh!
Tulips rarely even come up here due to the lack of cold weather. It sucks.
I prefer the cold weather. I wouldn't mind spring if we actually got a real spring. Our summers are pure misery and seem to last for 5 months now. Ugh!
Tulips rarely even come up here due to the lack of cold weather. It sucks.
Got you covered. It was 68 yesterday, 55 this morning, high winds early afternoon, then rain, then hail, then gropple and now snow and 30 degrees.
Springtime in the Rockies.
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