neverspent | February 1: Weather dynamics (Reply)

I'm tempted to declare early spring here... or the end of winter, maybe. It's pretty typical of our late January, February, we get some days that seem much too warm, as if it's the middle of spring, and then thunderstorms, tornadoes perhaps, a little more cold weather but usually we're just on the wrong edge of a system that's dumping snow on other folks. A lot of see-sawing between muggy warmth and cold rain, basically. It's hard when there's still enough of a chance of snow that it's reasonable to hope. Once March comes you know it's too late. (And you can be wonderfully surprised if snow does come!)

Today was unusually dynamic, even for February 1. Torrential, lukewarm rains all morning, then it started clearing up and the wind changed from an east wind right around to a west wind which sent the temperature dropping by about 30 degrees. You just sit back and watch. The weather may frustrate me sometimes, but it's rarely boring here, and that's something for which I'm grateful.