The usual
Yesterday: 70s! Woo hoo!
Today: 60s & (you guessed it!) breezy. A touch overcast, as well.
Weather Reports Archive March 2010
Balmy and Breezy
Just breezy, happily! In the 50s at 10 am, a lovely day so far.
Yesterday was full of harbingers of spring: the first phoebes have returned! Weeding for the first time this year! Heading out to the corral for evening feeding in shoes, not boots (warm weather and no mud, coinciding)! Treats all around.
The weekend also marked a first: first time this year that we had a “chance of rain or snow” and it didn’t actually rain or snow. The scatterered showers were actually scattered! It was getting to be a joke around our house that if “scattered” or “slight chance” was in the forecast, we’d be getting 10 inches of snow.
We seem to have turned a corner into spring, at last. Will it snow again? Yes, most likely; maybe even on Friday. But today is balmy and breezy — a day to enjoy.
Winter not giving up
This morning at 7 am: 18° and 4 inches of snow.
It snowed a bit more after that, then, thankfully, let up. Now we have patches of blue sky trying to break through, and some sunshine, and we’re all the way up to 34°!
A far cry from Wednesday and Thursday.
What a week!
Monday morning: nearly a foot of snow. (Yeah, there was more out there than I posted previously.)
Tuesday: help, I’m melting!
Wednesday: into the 60s. Sitting on the porch in shirtsleeves at 5 pm. Hot, my husband removed his shirt.
Thursday: more of the same (hey, two days in a row, yippee!)
Now: a thunderstorm that includes some hail. Snow predicted overnight and tomorrow morning.
Can anyone say "spring”?
More of more
The other day’s snow was gone by the next afternoon. Then there was supposed to be rain on Thursday, but that didn’t really materialize, as I recall. Friday and Saturday were just beautiful pre–spring days, dry and warm (high 50s) — great weather for getting outside. (Well, Friday was a touch breezy, if you know what I mean, but nothing a New Mexican can’t handle!)
Yesterday around 5 pm it started snowing again, and it snowed all night from the looks of it, and we have 4-6 inches out there and it’s still snowing. The temperature seems to be holding steady just under 32°, so there’s mud underneath the snow, at least in the corral. I believe that means the roads are probably quite slippery again, but we are not going out to test them!
So the rumors of spring are just that: rumors. The juncos are pleased with me, at least, since I am keeping them liberally supplied with seeds and grain.
Where’d that come from?
Such a mild day, not even that windy. Just a bit breezy, you know. I took grains to the equines at 8 pm and lingered outside because the air was so soft and sweet. At that time, although it was 39°, it just felt wonderful outside.
And now, at 10 pm, we have 2 inches of snow! Where’d that come from?!
Today...
I rather regret any hints I may have been dropping about looking forward to our regular windy weather.
Yesterday...
we had rain showers, which intensified into thunderstorms in the evening, and then a light snow at night. According to Mesowest, there was a total accumulation of 1/4 inch of precipitation.
Yeah, that led to slipping & sliding on the roads this morning.
But the wind has really taken care of that.
And it could stop now, that would be just fine.
Harbingers of Spring
A week of warm sunny days.
Breezes!
Dry roads!!
A pair of doves in the yard.
Chipmunks and squirrels out in full force.
Green shoots at the base of the Centranthus.
Gentle morning rains. (Happily, not enough to ruin the dry roads — yet!)
Fresh sweet air.
Sitting outside in shirtsleeves.
And, as I am on the porch for morning tea, a sound I associate with the Sierra in summer: wind in the trees, but not actually blowing on me.
Can’t quite remember...
...how many times I’ve written this this winter: it snowed. I’m not putting any more exclamation marks on that, as it is no longer surprising, and only minimally pleasing. Not to be a grump about it or anything, but snow just isn’t a big deal this year. (Well, it has been a very big deal in terms of what it did to our roads; but I think you know what I mean. Of course, old-timers out here keep saying that these are “usual” snow amounts, so maybe we just need to gear up our expectations.)
I have great hopes for a green spring, however! All this water soaking into the ground has to have an effect.
At any rate, yesterday had snow flurries off and on, with warm temperatures (high 30s) until the sun went down. Then we accumulated maybe another half inch. That is already beginning to melt away today, of course. And the rumor is for warm clear days this week, so our ability to get in and out of DCP should not be particularly affected and everything has a chance to dry out once and for all.
We actually did end up accumulating about 1.5 inches of snow last week on Monday, when I last wrote. Just so you know.
Birds: there was a female ladder–backed woodpecker in our front yard yesterday, down on the ground harvesting seed from last year’s golden crownbeards. I had to watch her for a while because it surprised me to see her on the ground. Very pretty bird.
And, the bird I’ve been calling a curve–billed thrasher may very well be a Crissal thrasher instead. H/T Beth Carleo; and I’ll be checking out “our” thrasher with a view to getting clear on its identification.