a resilient device, typically a helical metal coil, that can be pressed or pulled but returns to its former shape when released, used chiefly to exert constant tension or absorb movement
Meanwhile, next door in ND, it has been snowing the past three days. Still snowing. If I go out on my front deck, I now sink well past my knees. *sigh*
moarscienceplzsays
I’m sorry for you PZ, but you chose to live in Minnesota, which means you are pierced by an inclined plane wrapped helically around a cylindrical or conical shaft.
Methinks you are engaging in a bit of a curve consisting of two distinct and similar branches, formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone when the plane makes a greater angle with the base than does the generator of the cone.
iiandyiiiisays
Typical whiny liberal… why don’t you cry about it, PZ? Or better yet, why don’t you move down to real America, where it doesn’t snow for 6 months a year?
Maureen Briansays
Meanwhile, here in Yorkshire, the temperature is about 6C and the dust blown in from the Sahara is making my eyes very uncomfortable.
iiandyiiiisays
Where’s your global warming now?
iiandyiiiisays
Damn it… where’s the sarcasm font?
Thumper: Token Breedersays
1- Spring
2- Screwed
3- *thinks desperately back to GCSE maths*… isn’t that a hyper bola? I think. Are you trying to say he’s engaging in hyperbole?
Do I win something?
Kelseighsays
This sort of thing puzzles me, how people forget the weather in every other preceding year when March and April roll around.
I grew up in Nova Scotia, and have lived in Ontario for a decade. It’s snowed in the spring all my life in a climate not that much different from the northern bits of the continental US (NS tends to be a little warmer thanks to the Gulf Stream being so close). But even people who have lived here all their lives are like “why is it snowing in April?” even though it snowed last April too.
Ogvorbis: Still failing at being human.says
Well, c’mon PZed. You live in Minnesota. The state that has a special holiday to celebrate the melting of the last snow. Called Independence (from snow) Day. Comes on, what, July 4th?
@11: I remember previous years’ weather. Like two years ago when the temperature c. St. Patrick’s Day was in the mid-20s (C), and people were wearing T-shirts on the pubs’ patios downtown. Whereas this year it’s still hovering around freezing, there is ~2′ of snow in my yard, and we’re maybe getting more snow this weekend. The seasonal transitions in Ottawa are always highly variable.
@7: Excellent. Now just warm it up another 15 or 20 degrees before we get there in August, if you don’t mind.
Kevin Anthoneysays
Also a place where water bubbles out of the ground.
Hey, don’t bitch. You could be in Louisiana or Mississippi.
Fate worse than death, doncha know…
Thumper: Token Breedersays
#14
Thread won.
Athywrensays
“A spring?
…what does that have to do with sn-
-oooh!”
Like Maureen Brian @7, I’m in Yorkshire, enjoying the glow dust cloud. It’s very annoying. I recently got a brand new telescope, and what can I see with it? Sod all. Curse you, English weather in collusion with external pollutants on the wind!
I’m fine with the temperature, though – I’m correcting the air temperature with the aid of cooked sausage and baguette temperatures. Yum.
But even people who have lived here all their lives are like “why is it snowing in April?” even though it snowed last April too.
I remember last April’s weather. And the one before that, and the one before that, and so on. In April 2010, we had an icestorm which took out over 1100 towers, and had no power for a good long while. This April, it’s snowing.
It’s not a matter of not remembering or wondering why. It’s a matter of being godsdamned cranky that it’s bloody snowing again, when we should at least be in mud season already.
Kelseighsays
@13 Oh, I remember that year. I also remember how all the media was commenting on how extremely unusual that weather was. I also remember that after a week or so of that, it got cold again and killed off all the apple blossoms, which was a pretty crappy thing.
unclefrogysays
this winter has been somewhat out of the ordinary.
I wonder what the summer will be like this year.
when a pendulum swings it swings equally on doth sides of zero will the weather do like wise?
uncle frogy
Jackie, all dressed in blacksays
I’m having my outside kids take indoor breaks to reapply sunscreen / mosquito spray and to avoid the rain. The Lilac is greening. Everything smells like mud.
I love it.
It may still snow this month.
Jacob Schmidtsays
3- *thinks desperately back to GCSE maths*… isn’t that a hyper bola? I think. Are you trying to say he’s engaging in hyperbole?
It ain’t a hyperbola. The only way I know how to make a spring/screw shape would be something like this:
Last year it snowed for our commencement ceremony. In May.
qwertysays
My father towards the end of his life thought it was snowing and it was in July. That’s what happens when you live in Minnesota. You begin to think it snows ALL the time.
playonwordssays
Are you Dreaming of a White Easter, PZ? You might want to look at moving to Alaska, given the result of the Iditarod Invitational this year.
blfsays
Snowing at commencement is probably better than a volcano. There was one at a commencement I attended…
(Ok, ok, it was an artificial volcano — a prank — in honor of that year’s scheduled speaker, the governor of the state containing the then-exploding Mt St Helens…)
We just installed a new couch made by a mattress and a couple of pallets on our north facing balcony. When I came home with the kids, we got of our tops, and lingered in the last rays of the sun drinking coke, and seating profusely.
Yesterday we had a thunderstorm with hail – and tomorrow we will have blood rain from Sahara, it sure is spring.
Last year it snowed for our commencement ceremony. In May.
Yeah, a May snow isn’t unusual here. Usually happens after you’ve decided it’s safe to plant. And a hailstorm in July is par for the course.
blfsays
Seating profusely sounds more fun! I could get into that, if I didn’t already do profuse sleeping.
unclefrogysays
blf
hahahahahaha
I like to do me some profuse loafing myself
uncle frogy
Daniel Stormssays
FSM, I still recall the bright, warm April day when i was a student at Macalester. Went riding with a friend in his Sun Bug, roof open. Glorious to feel that Spring had arrived. Got 8 inches of snow that night. A tad miffed at that.
Rich Woodssays
Chilly breezes and occasional rain, interspersed with allergies from plants having sex in public underneath an inversion layer. Fortunately the Saharan sand seems to have missed my arms-breadth of Gloucestershire today.
Better this than snow.
John Horstmansays
Oh, please, PZ, it snows in Slinky pretty much every year in the upper Midwest.
alexmcdonaldsays
Typical Murrican softie.
Here’s Billy Connolly on the subject
Ah wis headin’ wi ma cromack up frae Gretna Green tae Skye
But ma journey has an element of farce.
‘Cos the calendar has stated – it’s the middle o’ July,
Yet here ah am wi’ snow up tae ma arse, Oh – yo!
(chorus) Wi’ ma pipes below ma oxter an’ ma sporran neatly pressed
Ma pockets full o’ porridge for the road.
Wi’ some Crawford’s Tartan Shortbread an’ some tattie scones as weel
An’ ah’m jist aboot tae paint masel’ wi’ woad. Oh – yo!
There’s more, but it goes off the subject of the weather and onto something else we Scots are really good at. Shagging.
killyosaursays
I’m hoping Southeast MI continues to trend towards warm.
Akira MacKenziesays
Nooooo spring! (Whistles)
jimnorthsays
HA! You all are lucky. I live in Iowa. And I like snow/hail/rain/heat/pollen all within one hour…oh, and the lazy tornado or two…
gogsays
This week in New York weather: Snow, mild, cold, mild, warm. I took my dog to the park today. He went for a swim.
robrosays
Ah, California…It’s a balmy day here with a light breeze off the ocean, scattered patches of cloud, blue sky, 14°. Tomorrow some rain supposedly but then sunny, sunny, sunny. Of course, there is the small matter of insufficient water, but what the heck…it’s beautiful weather. Maybe you folks in the midwest could send us a few million tons of snow because we could sure use it…just for the ski industry, of course. Oh, and the farmers…yeah, food’s nice. And um, while we’re at it, remember us this summer when the fires really get going.
marcussays
Powder. Day. ‘Nuff said.
Loftysays
Dear Pharyngulites of the Northern Americas,
On Tuesday my little city of Adelaide reached 36.8°C and nearly broke its hottest April day record, only missed by 0.1°C Please be so kind as to pack one gumboots worth of snow and send it by Fedex freight collect and have them dump it on the little mountain-of-my-nym next door. I’d love me some snow, it’s been a while.
Kind regards, Lofty.
Loftysays
But only when Robro has been sent enough, I’m not greedy.
John Pieretsays
If it is any comfort, it snowed rather heavily on Long Island last Monday during the morning rush hour, causing the Long Island Expressway to more than live up to its title of World’s Longest Parking Lot.
On the other hand, by the afternoon the temperature rose to the high 50s (F).
Next time another Brit states that ‘mericans are uncouth I’ll point to this thread where you are all civilly chatting about the weather.
In London its been spring since mid December and I’m sitting under the same Saharan dust storm that the Northerners are, but I have a friend in Moscow who is complaining that its snowing there also.
Menyambalsays
I went to school without a jacket, kinda cool. First recess was outside, breezy with thunder rumbling and tornadoes in forecast. Second recess was held inside because of rain, but it was sunny by the end of it. Dismissed into warm wind and a kind of electric feel. Needless to say, the kids were nutzo.
Home with window open and a persistent cough. Feeling helical.
Ray, rude-ass yankeesays
blf@31 & unclefrogy@32
I’d rather be furiously sleeping!
maddogdeltasays
PZ, you got me to click on this post with your great Hooke.
// ducks
Sarahface, who is trying to break the lurking habitsays
It was at least 16 degrees (Celsius) here today, I walked into town and didn’t actually need my (lightweight) fleece, and I was pretty warm in just a t-shirt.
We are apparently also in the Sahara dust-storm, but the only thing I notice about it is the sudden increase in dirtiness of the cars. Happily, it doesn’t affect my lungs or anything.
PZ, you got me to click on this post with your great Hooke.
Not to force the matter, but your position here is *ahem* TOO DERIVATIVE. :P
Al Dentesays
“A Song of the Weather” by Michael Flanders
January brings the snow,
Makes your feet and fingers glow.
February’s ice and sleet
Freeze the toes tight off your feet.
Welcome March with wintry wind
Would thou wert not so unkind!
April brings the sweet spring showers,
On and on for hours and hours.
Farmers fear unkindly May
Frost by night and hail by day.
June just rains and never stops
Thirty days and spoils the crops.
In July the sun is hot.
Is it shining? No, it’s not.
August, cold and dank and wet,
Brings more rain than any yet.
Bleak September’s mist and mud
Is enough to chill the blood.
Then October adds a gale,
Wind and slush and rain and hail.
Dark November brings the fog
Should not do it to a dog.
Freezing wet December, then
Bloody January again!
Rich Woodssays
Referencing Lofty #43:
Dear Pharyngulites of the Northern Americas,
Did anyone else mentally read this in ‘Strine?
If it’s just me, it must be the weather.
Azkyroth Drinked the Grammar Too :)says
Anyway, PZ, as for the weather, consider it a sine.
carliesays
I’ve been in my current location for over a decade now, and I still can’t quite get used to the fact that it’s not safe to do the majority of planting until Memorial Day.
*waves her cane at the snowy, icky sky*
Unfuck your shit, Spring.
inflectionsays
Whee! I just got back from a drive from Duluth to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I left at 4:30pm Central and got in at 10:30 Eastern. The last hour coming in to the UP was spent driving (occasionally skidding) at an average of 40mph, slower on curvy downhill roads, which were in many places covered by a uniform white blanket of snow broken not by previous passing cars but by the very handy grooved lane strip we have around here, which both sounds an alert when you wander into the middle of the roadway and textures the snow somewhat when it has just accumulated an inch or so.
Artorsays
I’m caked in dust, but that’s only because I just refinished a floor. It’s beautiful here in Oregon, and I think I’ll wear my kilt tomorrow.
My point: At which an infinitely long line and a finite circle – sharing the same plane – intersect at a single point.
chigau (違う)says
What is a Slinky™?
Ariaflame, BSc, BF, PhDsays
Apparently a Slinky is a place, and a spring which can be placed at the top of a set of stairs and it will use the stored energy and the resilience of the spring to move down the stairs.
As my grampa Einer said (he was from NW MN), “Ja, it’s snowing in April, shoful fast afore it melts. It always snows at least vunce. It’s Minnuh-soo-tah. No suprise.”
I miss his lilting accent and his calm demeanor. And the Skandihoovian humor. I live in Minneapolis, and my calm acceptance of winter is bewildering to the residents.
“It’s winter and it’s snowing in Minnesota. Why are you surprised?”
“But I’m sick of winter.”
“Ja. So. Vinter isn’t done yet.”
Drives ’em nuts…
(Also, I like winter.)
azhaelsays
We had some snow a few days ago that barely covered the ground and last night was supossed to be the last cold night…from now on….no more cold….just the inoxerably approaching summer…Oh, it´s pretty at first, with all the life thinking that they have a chance…but then before you know it, it´s here…
And my salamanders have only just spawned…how will they cope? how will i?
Oh gods….summer is coming….
David Marjanovićsays
Damn it… where’s the sarcasm font?
It’s the <q> tag. Warning: will automatically generate quotation marks.
mykroftsays
Climate is what you expect. Weather is what you get.
Seth says
I see what you did there.
David Marjanović says
Over here it’s room temperature outdoors.
Inaji says
PZ:
Meanwhile, next door in ND, it has been snowing the past three days. Still snowing. If I go out on my front deck, I now sink well past my knees. *sigh*
moarscienceplz says
I’m sorry for you PZ, but you chose to live in Minnesota, which means you are pierced by an inclined plane wrapped helically around a cylindrical or conical shaft.
Gregory in Seattle says
Methinks you are engaging in a bit of a curve consisting of two distinct and similar branches, formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone when the plane makes a greater angle with the base than does the generator of the cone.
iiandyiiii says
Typical whiny liberal… why don’t you cry about it, PZ? Or better yet, why don’t you move down to real America, where it doesn’t snow for 6 months a year?
Maureen Brian says
Meanwhile, here in Yorkshire, the temperature is about 6C and the dust blown in from the Sahara is making my eyes very uncomfortable.
iiandyiiii says
Where’s your global warming now?
iiandyiiii says
Damn it… where’s the sarcasm font?
Thumper: Token Breeder says
1- Spring
2- Screwed
3- *thinks desperately back to GCSE maths*… isn’t that a hyper bola? I think. Are you trying to say he’s engaging in hyperbole?
Do I win something?
Kelseigh says
This sort of thing puzzles me, how people forget the weather in every other preceding year when March and April roll around.
I grew up in Nova Scotia, and have lived in Ontario for a decade. It’s snowed in the spring all my life in a climate not that much different from the northern bits of the continental US (NS tends to be a little warmer thanks to the Gulf Stream being so close). But even people who have lived here all their lives are like “why is it snowing in April?” even though it snowed last April too.
Ogvorbis: Still failing at being human. says
Well, c’mon PZed. You live in Minnesota. The state that has a special holiday to celebrate the melting of the last snow. Called Independence (from snow) Day. Comes on, what, July 4th?
Eamon Knight says
@11: I remember previous years’ weather. Like two years ago when the temperature c. St. Patrick’s Day was in the mid-20s (C), and people were wearing T-shirts on the pubs’ patios downtown. Whereas this year it’s still hovering around freezing, there is ~2′ of snow in my yard, and we’re maybe getting more snow this weekend. The seasonal transitions in Ottawa are always highly variable.
@7: Excellent. Now just warm it up another 15 or 20 degrees before we get there in August, if you don’t mind.
Kevin Anthoney says
Also a place where water bubbles out of the ground.
Oh, wait, do you get liquid water in Morris?
janiceintoronto says
Hey, don’t bitch. You could be in Louisiana or Mississippi.
Fate worse than death, doncha know…
Thumper: Token Breeder says
#14
Thread won.
Athywren says
“A spring?
…what does that have to do with sn-
-oooh!”
Like Maureen Brian @7, I’m in Yorkshire, enjoying the
glowdust cloud. It’s very annoying. I recently got a brand new telescope, and what can I see with it? Sod all. Curse you, English weather in collusion with external pollutants on the wind!I’m fine with the temperature, though – I’m correcting the air temperature with the aid of cooked sausage and baguette temperatures. Yum.
Inaji says
Kelseigh:
I remember last April’s weather. And the one before that, and the one before that, and so on. In April 2010, we had an icestorm which took out over 1100 towers, and had no power for a good long while. This April, it’s snowing.
It’s not a matter of not remembering or wondering why. It’s a matter of being godsdamned cranky that it’s bloody snowing again, when we should at least be in mud season already.
Kelseigh says
@13 Oh, I remember that year. I also remember how all the media was commenting on how extremely unusual that weather was. I also remember that after a week or so of that, it got cold again and killed off all the apple blossoms, which was a pretty crappy thing.
unclefrogy says
this winter has been somewhat out of the ordinary.
I wonder what the summer will be like this year.
when a pendulum swings it swings equally on doth sides of zero will the weather do like wise?
uncle frogy
Jackie, all dressed in black says
I’m having my outside kids take indoor breaks to reapply sunscreen / mosquito spray and to avoid the rain. The Lilac is greening. Everything smells like mud.
I love it.
It may still snow this month.
Jacob Schmidt says
It ain’t a hyperbola. The only way I know how to make a spring/screw shape would be something like this:
<cos(t), sin(t), t/10>
Produces a neat little screw shape.
PZ Myers says
Last year it snowed for our commencement ceremony. In May.
qwerty says
My father towards the end of his life thought it was snowing and it was in July. That’s what happens when you live in Minnesota. You begin to think it snows ALL the time.
playonwords says
Are you Dreaming of a White Easter, PZ? You might want to look at moving to Alaska, given the result of the Iditarod Invitational this year.
blf says
Snowing at commencement is probably better than a volcano. There was one at a commencement I attended…
(Ok, ok, it was an artificial volcano — a prank — in honor of that year’s scheduled speaker, the governor of the state containing the then-exploding Mt St Helens…)
sorenkongstad says
We just installed a new couch made by a mattress and a couple of pallets on our north facing balcony. When I came home with the kids, we got of our tops, and lingered in the last rays of the sun drinking coke, and seating profusely.
Yesterday we had a thunderstorm with hail – and tomorrow we will have blood rain from Sahara, it sure is spring.
Gregory in Seattle says
@Thumper #10 – Math puns are hard, give me a break.
sorenkongstad says
I meant sweating ;) And we live in Copenhagen
Anne D says
Here it’s warming rapidly. Highs in the low 90s by Monday. Can we split the difference?
Inaji says
PZ:
Yeah, a May snow isn’t unusual here. Usually happens after you’ve decided it’s safe to plant. And a hailstorm in July is par for the course.
blf says
Seating profusely sounds more fun! I could get into that, if I didn’t already do profuse sleeping.
unclefrogy says
blf
hahahahahaha
I like to do me some profuse loafing myself
uncle frogy
Daniel Storms says
FSM, I still recall the bright, warm April day when i was a student at Macalester. Went riding with a friend in his Sun Bug, roof open. Glorious to feel that Spring had arrived. Got 8 inches of snow that night. A tad miffed at that.
Rich Woods says
Chilly breezes and occasional rain, interspersed with allergies from plants having sex in public underneath an inversion layer. Fortunately the Saharan sand seems to have missed my arms-breadth of Gloucestershire today.
Better this than snow.
John Horstman says
Oh, please, PZ, it snows in Slinky pretty much every year in the upper Midwest.
alexmcdonald says
Typical Murrican softie.
Here’s Billy Connolly on the subject
There’s more, but it goes off the subject of the weather and onto something else we Scots are really good at. Shagging.
killyosaur says
I’m hoping Southeast MI continues to trend towards warm.
Akira MacKenzie says
Nooooo spring! (Whistles)
jimnorth says
HA! You all are lucky. I live in Iowa. And I like snow/hail/rain/heat/pollen all within one hour…oh, and the lazy tornado or two…
gog says
This week in New York weather: Snow, mild, cold, mild, warm. I took my dog to the park today. He went for a swim.
robro says
Ah, California…It’s a balmy day here with a light breeze off the ocean, scattered patches of cloud, blue sky, 14°. Tomorrow some rain supposedly but then sunny, sunny, sunny. Of course, there is the small matter of insufficient water, but what the heck…it’s beautiful weather. Maybe you folks in the midwest could send us a few million tons of snow because we could sure use it…just for the ski industry, of course. Oh, and the farmers…yeah, food’s nice. And um, while we’re at it, remember us this summer when the fires really get going.
marcus says
Powder. Day. ‘Nuff said.
Lofty says
Dear Pharyngulites of the Northern Americas,
On Tuesday my little city of Adelaide reached 36.8°C and nearly broke its hottest April day record, only missed by 0.1°C Please be so kind as to pack one gumboots worth of snow and send it by Fedex freight collect and have them dump it on the little mountain-of-my-nym next door. I’d love me some snow, it’s been a while.
Kind regards, Lofty.
Lofty says
But only when Robro has been sent enough, I’m not greedy.
John Pieret says
If it is any comfort, it snowed rather heavily on Long Island last Monday during the morning rush hour, causing the Long Island Expressway to more than live up to its title of World’s Longest Parking Lot.
On the other hand, by the afternoon the temperature rose to the high 50s (F).
Danny Butts says
Next time another Brit states that ‘mericans are uncouth I’ll point to this thread where you are all civilly chatting about the weather.
In London its been spring since mid December and I’m sitting under the same Saharan dust storm that the Northerners are, but I have a friend in Moscow who is complaining that its snowing there also.
Menyambal says
I went to school without a jacket, kinda cool. First recess was outside, breezy with thunder rumbling and tornadoes in forecast. Second recess was held inside because of rain, but it was sunny by the end of it. Dismissed into warm wind and a kind of electric feel. Needless to say, the kids were nutzo.
Home with window open and a persistent cough. Feeling helical.
Ray, rude-ass yankee says
blf@31 & unclefrogy@32
I’d rather be furiously sleeping!
maddogdelta says
PZ, you got me to click on this post with your great Hooke.
// ducks
Sarahface, who is trying to break the lurking habit says
It was at least 16 degrees (Celsius) here today, I walked into town and didn’t actually need my (lightweight) fleece, and I was pretty warm in just a t-shirt.
We are apparently also in the Sahara dust-storm, but the only thing I notice about it is the sudden increase in dirtiness of the cars. Happily, it doesn’t affect my lungs or anything.
Azkyroth Drinked the Grammar Too :) says
Sigh…
Azkyroth Drinked the Grammar Too :) says
Not to force the matter, but your position here is *ahem* TOO DERIVATIVE. :P
Al Dente says
Rich Woods says
Referencing Lofty #43:
Did anyone else mentally read this in ‘Strine?
If it’s just me, it must be the weather.
Azkyroth Drinked the Grammar Too :) says
Anyway, PZ, as for the weather, consider it a sine.
carlie says
I’ve been in my current location for over a decade now, and I still can’t quite get used to the fact that it’s not safe to do the majority of planting until Memorial Day.
davidgibson says
grauple in Mpls
CaptTu says
We’re dodging tornadoes and golf ball plus sized hail here north of Dallas… I’ll trade you!
praestans says
my custm lamskin yearling with sno-tipt fur lining shud be redy tmoro.
but the thing is, it’s quite mild in Exeter, if mildly pluvial.
robro says
Lofty — Surely there’s enough in Morris alone for us to share. And there’s the Dakotas.
magistramarla says
I’d rather be back in California!
It’s been hot here in Texas this week, but I know that this will seem cool by August.
I hate the heat!
Feminace, formerly Qurikythrope says
*waves her cane at the snowy, icky sky*
Unfuck your shit, Spring.
inflection says
Whee! I just got back from a drive from Duluth to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I left at 4:30pm Central and got in at 10:30 Eastern. The last hour coming in to the UP was spent driving (occasionally skidding) at an average of 40mph, slower on curvy downhill roads, which were in many places covered by a uniform white blanket of snow broken not by previous passing cars but by the very handy grooved lane strip we have around here, which both sounds an alert when you wander into the middle of the roadway and textures the snow somewhat when it has just accumulated an inch or so.
Artor says
I’m caked in dust, but that’s only because I just refinished a floor. It’s beautiful here in Oregon, and I think I’ll wear my kilt tomorrow.
Lofty says
Thank you gang, it feels cooler here already.
johnhodges says
In the town where I live, in southwest Virginia, I have long said that Spring is a tossed salad of all the other seasons.
theophontes (恶六六六缓步动物) says
My point: At which an infinitely long line and a finite circle – sharing the same plane – intersect at a single point.
chigau (違う) says
What is a Slinky™?
Ariaflame, BSc, BF, PhD says
Apparently a Slinky is a place, and a spring which can be placed at the top of a set of stairs and it will use the stored energy and the resilience of the spring to move down the stairs.
Lofty says
Behold The Sinuous Slinky
Brother Yam says
As my grampa Einer said (he was from NW MN), “Ja, it’s snowing in April, shoful fast afore it melts. It always snows at least vunce. It’s Minnuh-soo-tah. No suprise.”
I miss his lilting accent and his calm demeanor. And the Skandihoovian humor. I live in Minneapolis, and my calm acceptance of winter is bewildering to the residents.
“It’s winter and it’s snowing in Minnesota. Why are you surprised?”
“But I’m sick of winter.”
“Ja. So. Vinter isn’t done yet.”
Drives ’em nuts…
(Also, I like winter.)
azhael says
We had some snow a few days ago that barely covered the ground and last night was supossed to be the last cold night…from now on….no more cold….just the inoxerably approaching summer…Oh, it´s pretty at first, with all the life thinking that they have a chance…but then before you know it, it´s here…
And my salamanders have only just spawned…how will they cope? how will i?
Oh gods….summer is coming….
David Marjanović says
It’s the <q> tag. Warning: will automatically generate
.mykroft says
Climate is what you expect. Weather is what you get.