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Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on March 22, 2022, 11:24:26 am ---Oh, I forgot to observe the equinox on the day it happened! Yesterday was in the mid-60s and sunny here. Today the high is 46 and it's supposed to rain all day into tomorrow, when it will turn into snow and the high will be 39.
March. >:(
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I remember when March was considered a windy month and April a showery month. I remember the sayings "March winds doth blow, and we shall have snow" and "April showers bring may flowers."
(And the old joke: Q: If April showers bring may flowers, what do may flowers bring? A: Pilgrims.)
Front-Ranger:
:laugh: :laugh:
serious crayons:
Excerpt from a weather story I wrote in March 2021:
How did March 9's not particularly impressive record high of 61 stand for almost a century and a half? Especially since it's 9 degrees chillier than the record for just one day before?
Who knows? March is weird.
It's certainly a time of change, Hasenstein noted. The record high for March 1 is 59 degrees; by March 31, the record high goes up to 82. The temperature spread between record lows for March is, coincidentally, exactly the same as its highs ? zero on the first of the month and 23 on the last.
Perhaps that variability explains why so many weather myths and legends swirl around March.
The old "March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb" certainly contains some truth, as shown by those record highs and lows. But in any given March, a lamb might take the lead, a lion might pounce at the end, or lions and lambs might pop up throughout the month like whack-a-moles.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on March 22, 2022, 04:34:38 pm ---The old "March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb" certainly contains some truth, as shown by those record highs and lows. But in any given March, a lamb might take the lead, a lion might pounce at the end, or lions and lambs might pop up throughout the month like whack-a-moles.[/font][/size]
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That's sort of the way we said it when I was a, er, kid: If March comes in like a lion it will go out like a lamb, and if it comes in like a lamb it will go our like a lion.
CellarDweller:
We've been in Spring for a few days now, but today we're near the freezing mark, and had snow flurries today.
Tomorrow we'll be below freezing.
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