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18” on Memorial Day right to the coast. I actually do wonder what an equivalent springtime analog of Oct ‘11 would look like.

Still the worst subsidence hole I've ever seen in southern RI with that March '13 storm. Anyone remember if Cory was around for that? He must've gone nuclear.

I blame Tonga for the weirdness. I have no scientific basis for it, but I blame it all the same...

Hearing a lot of spring-like birdsong, too. Just a real anachronistic feel to things right now.

I just noticed some little red buds on the maple outside my bedroom. That's insane. Something one would more typically expect in April.

Damn that's super impressive in Boston. Don't think I saw anything that low while I lived there.

Wind ripped a skylight off one of our buildings. You haven’t lived until you’ve crawled out on a pitched 8 story roof to retrieve a giant convex plastic kite in roaring bitter cold wind. Just glad it didn’t kill anyone; myself included.

Can I ask what that radar image in your avatar is from?

Snow? Never heard of it.

What’s all that white stuff on the ground? Did you import sand from Sarasota?

So much time wasted in a classroom doing long division that could have been profitably used sledding or storming snow forts. Sad days those were.

How much accretion is that?

You know, I've been thinking about what went wrong with this winter and I think I've found my answer. Two days after that cold blast in December, my neighbor started building a near regulation size skating rink in his back yard. He did a beautiful job: wood boards all the way around, netting behind the hockey goals, lighting so they can skate at night etc. He filled that thing with 3-4" of water and sat back, expecting weeks of pick-up games with his kids and their friends. Sadly, his dreams effed up the winter juju, and the rink has since served as a pool for ducks and geese. Really sad.

Sadly there was a hiker from NY who froze to death that day trying to do MWN.

"I proclaim this the Griswold family ski vacation. Isn't Stowe beautiful, Audrey?"

Give me March '12 or give me death.

Smart woman!

I've experienced -30 twice, once at Middlebury VT during January '04 and once in 2016 at Tupper Lake NY. It's pretty effing cold. In the former case, my car wouldn't start after morning swim practice, so I had to walk from the pool to the dining hall. My hair was a block of ice.

The current height of my daffodils exceeds my seasonal snowfall total.

This looks like my chance to finally get some snow. I'll get my power washer out of the basement.

I don't know if it's going to be a permanent addition, but they have a new one called "Pink" that is excellent.

2011?

It's pouring. My seasonal rain total is outpacing my snow total by 3 to one at this point. Ridiculous.

The winter of our lives continues. The geese have to be stopped. And I have to stop them.