RABBIT RABBIT!

[elleng]

February 1!

AND In 2023, the official first day of spring is Monday, March 20. This date marks the “spring equinox” in the Northern Hemisphere.

[SergeStorms]

1. I, for one, am really looking forward...

to spring.

I live in western New York, and in winter you can count the number of sunny days on both hands. It's like living inside a ping-pong ball. Nothing but gray.

[secondwind]

2. Same here in Massachusetts. Very gray this year.

[Justice matters.]

3. With the overflow of dust particles caused by the war in Ukraine up in the air...

H20 molecules have more dust to stick to in the northern stratosphere.

[fierywoman]

4. Same here in the PacNW -- days and days and days of overcast, grey --

it's biblical!

[wnylib]

5. But, except for the Christmas storm, it has been a mild

winter in western NY. So far, it's the mildest winter that I can remember. But it's not over yet. Still time for more storms.

Seems like there's a pattern for the past few years of winter weather starting later and being mild, then lingering on with snowfalls in the spring.

[SergeStorms]

8. And that, in a nutshell, is what worries me.

The "lingering on with snowfalls in the spring" part.

I really dislike April snowstorms and bitterly cold polar vortexes after the trees have started budding. Some of the trees/bushes are hearty enough to recover, but other's blooms are completely destroyed for that year.

Eh....it is what it is. Just grin and bear it.

[Marthe48]

6. Rabbit Rabbit!

[Wicked Blue]

7. RIBBET RIBBET

Spring Peeper here. Coming soon to a stream or pond near you!