Countdown to Spring - A Taste of Things to Come (Maybe)

It started snowing just before sunrise this morning and overstayed its welcome by continuing until around 1 PM.  Depending on where you lived, you either got 1-2" or 4-6", so I guess all the weather forecast services were right in a way.
We got 2-3" locally, but the roads stayed fairly clear.  It got sunny, windy, and chillier after it finally stopped.  So begins our descent back into colder weather.
And then ...

Ah, yes.  Something we haven't seen in a while.  The potential for a significant mid-March nor'easter this coming Tuesday.  Once again, depending on the weather service, the forecasts run between 4-6" and 8-12" or more of snowfall.  It all depends on how the storm develops and tracks, they say, and they'll know more once we get to Sunday and/or Monday.  Like a free lunch, there's no such thing as a really accurate weather forecast more than 24 hours ahead.

Yesterday, I saw my first robin of the season.  Happily bob-bob-bobbin' along in search of food, he had bare ground to work with yesterday.  He's going to be hard-pressed to find any of that for a while.

Only 10 more days until Spring.

Countdown to Spring - They're Scarin' Me

I was starting my coffee at 5:30 this morning and heard what I thought was one of the local garbage trucks making its way up the street.  I looked out the window and saw that it was one of the town's snowplows coming up the hill, turning around and heading back down.  We didn't have any precipitation last night.  The roads were dry and the temperature had stayed above freezing.  So, why were they making the rounds?

Tomorrow, we're under a winter weather advisory for expected snow, sleet and freezing rain in the morning.  It's supposed to turn to all rain by late morning, although the last time that was supposed to happen, we got about 2" of pure sleet, no snow or rain involved. No fun to drive on and even less fun to shovel (it's like 6" of wet snow in my book).

It should all be gone by Wednesday, as it's supposed to be in the 50s that day. But, the fact that they're coming around the day before to look for trouble spots in the sort of wee hours of the morning makes me wonder and I shouldn't wonder. Guess I'll be keeping an eye on the forecast - eww.

Only 42 days until Spring.