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Sounds like my weather except we're only getting into the 50s...which is still pretty darn exciting for SE Michigan!
Geese and ducks are coming back to the lakes, though...I've been seeing them for the past week.
PS, Ben - very pretty! It will be a couple of months before we have flowers blooming here though....
Over here we often get the first spring flowers around mid-February and the first true summer-like 75F and sunny day can easily be as late as late May (I think the most we've had so far is 57F) so spring is a proper three-month season in its own right, whereas when I was in Poland in a continental climate it was still snowing and near-freezing and completely bare in late March, all the plants/leaves came out at once around April 20th-30th and then the weather went straight into summer mode. I guess your spring is more like that.
Woohoo, starting to see some grassy places in my yard! Of course, the huge piles on corners will be around for a long time, but nice to see some snow free places!
The places where they dump the snow, that won't be gone until at least May. Our temps are going to be above average all week, a very good thing.
Over here we often get the first spring flowers around mid-February and the first true summer-like 75F and sunny day can easily be as late as late May (I think the most we've had so far is 57F) so spring is a proper three-month season in its own right, whereas when I was in Poland in a continental climate it was still snowing and near-freezing and completely bare in late March, all the plants/leaves came out at once around April 20th-30th and then the weather went straight into summer mode. I guess your spring is more like that.
Yup...I grew up mostly in Europe including England and then the northern Hebrides...it's all about latitude!
Here in the Great Lakes/northern mid west season changes can be quite abrupt.
Sounds like my weather except we're only getting into the 50s...which is still pretty darn exciting for SE Michigan!
Geese and ducks are coming back to the lakes, though...I've been seeing them for the past week.
PS, Ben - very pretty! It will be a couple of months before we have flowers blooming here though....
Your weather is pretty similar to here (NW New Jersey). Only difference is I think we're more prone to warmer weather earlier in the season, even though our averages are almost identical.
All of a sudden there are mallards and Canada geese everywhere, one day none, now tons! I have a river a few blocks west of me, Lake Michigan south and east of me, now that the river is open, they like it better than the lake!
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In spite of our 4" of wet snow yesterday, the streets are dry and even 40 today felt mild! 
