Spring break is almost over, and classes resume on Monday, maybe.
So of course nature is getting its revenge. We’re under a blizzard watch from 7pm tonight until Monday at 4pm, as my students are trying to get back, but already I’m hearing from some that flights are delayed or cancelled. Classes are going to be under “reduced operations” on Monday, but they aren’t canceled, so I’ll be teaching over Zoom. Whee!
It’s already snowing.
Welcome back to Minnesota, gang!
And in the west, a widespread, unprecedented March heatwave is expected to arrive starting next week. Here in the PNW it feels like winter passed us by. My yard is a veritable jungle right now, daring me and my arthritic bones to come take it on. Gonna be a yellow jacket bonanza this summer with all the queens overwintering with nary a scratch.
I’m half expecting to see an dad and son pushing a shopping trolley down that road.
Expansive March storm ramping up, bringing snow, strong winds to millions
Doesn’t that give you a nice rosy feeling of solidarity?
We’ll be getting that tomorrow night and Monday morning in St. Louis. We don’t expect lots of snow, but the roads might be a bit slippery for the Monday commute. We are expecting high winds.
Come out to California… we’ve skipped straight from winter to summer.
It must be MN High School Hockey Tournament season. March is traditionally when MN gets our heaviest snowfall of the season. It usually melts pretty quickly though not quickly enough that we won’t have to shovel it away. Hopefully we won’t get snow in April too, that’s so depressing Prince wrote a song about it.
We’ve had snow at our graduation, in May.
It’s gonna go down into the low 50s/high 40s in my part of Florida next week. As Lost in Space’s Dr Smith would say: “Oh the pain!”
We might get heavy storms. Not seeing any tornadic threat yet. No Reed Timmer.
On a more meta angle we might see a historically robust El Nino in fall. As happy as that makes me per possibly low Atlantic tropical angle it might be crappy elsewhere.
This is what in Noth Sweden is called “april weather”, fickle weather conditions that turn around fast.
On top of this, Phil Campbell – guitarrist of Motörhead- has passed away. :-(
You’re going to need a retirement hobby.
‘Why I’m burying a plane in my back garden’
I’m neither a dwarf nor a hobbit.
But wouldn’t it be nice to have a clubhouse to retreat to while the blizzards rage outside? Apparently driving to Iowa is verboten I-35 was closed.
I have experienced snowfall the sixth of June, at the North Swedish farm where I grew up. But it was not a common occurence.
PZ Myers @ 11
But dwellings underground are cool in summer, as they reach the average year temperature if you go down a bit.
-Now that King Donald has decreed climate change is a hoax, and we don’t know if you will get energy enough for the AC (thank you Israel for starting the war) you need to take precautions to avoid heat stroke!
@ ^ birgerjohansson : Doomday Bunkers against Nuclear Winter or other general apocalypses are all the rage in some circles..
Around here ( eastern TN ) temperatures randomly jump around, one day it’s 70s or more, and the next day it’s 20s at night with high barely above freezing. The local weather god must have found another meth lab.