Turn, Turn, Turn: The Year-Round Seasons Thread

I just had that thought this morning on my way to the train station - the air smelled like spring, in that it wasn't as icy as you might expect this time of the year, and everything had that good, earthy, fresh scent. Not to mention, even at 6:30 AM, it was already starting to get light outside and wasn't pitch dark. This weekend was warm for the season - highs of about 60, despite clouds/rain - and it's dropped back into the mid-40s, but the weather seems to have lost most of its bite. I'm not the world's biggest fan of spring because it plays havoc on my sinuses, but I always look forward to the warmer weather and new things growing in the ground and longer days.

Yes! And it's so nice to leave work with a little bit of sunlight left, rather than wake up and come home in the dark every day. I don't have Seasonal Affective Disorder, but my mood is definitely better overall when the days are longer.

I haven't needed headlights to drive home from work in, like, two weeks!  My mother doesn't have to turn on the outside lights before I get home either!  (Now's when I desperately try not to turn this into my bi-annual railing about the stupid expanded Daylight Savings bullshit.  It's already light out after work!  We don't need to give an hour to the evenings yet at the expense of the mornings!  Why can't we wait and do it at the same time as most everyone else in the world?? ::SOBS:: )

OK, what I am about to say is going to sound really obnoxious and humblebraggy to you northerners. I know. I KNOW. But winter here in Houston sucked. It was 83 on Christmas day. It's been 80 the past two weeks. Trees started budding and flowering a month ago. I want my winter! No, I don't want 18 inches of snow, and shovelling my walkway, and all that. But I do want a nice nip in the air before The Onslaught begins in another month. It sucks to go from heater to AC in 24 hours with no in between. I'm really worried about what this means for spring/summer if winter was this warm and dry.

Surf season is slowly transitioning to dive season. It's been a long surf season, and I made the most of it.

I still suck at surfing. Like, really suck.

It was near 60 and wet all last week, this week we've got sun but today's high was 43. No signs of getting less bipolar weather any time soon.

The upside is that it doesn't get dark at 3 anymore, so there's that.

This was probably the lightest winter on record for the city, and definitely the mildest that I've experienced living here for 14 years. We basically had a 2-week cold snap in January where it got down to -20 C, but it's been above freezing during the day pretty much ever since. I think I had to shovel my sidewalk twice, and maybe once back in December.

But since it is still so early in the year, Spring isn't ready to start up yet, so we've had a weird sunny but brown proto-Spring for the past month or so.

If you want a no-snow metro that still gets weirdly cold, then move to Vegas. You'd think that it being "50" in December wouldn't feel cold, but there's an eternal howling zephyr that wind-chills to your bones.

Last Sunday it was 72 here. I was working outside in a t shirt and it was hot. Tonight I hauled in several loads of firewood for the blizzard they are predicting we may get tomorrow. It's a crapshoot, they say, depending on the storm track. We might get anything from nothing to 6+ inches of snow and 40-50 mph winds. And next Sunday it's supposed to be 65 degrees*.  At this point, it might be nice if it just decided what season it wanted to be.


*all temperatures in Fahrenheit 'cause America, F*** Yeah! 

We had a really nice weekend, at least for late February, with sun and temps in the 50s and I'm so glad for a bit more sunlight each day.

But today we're due to get walloped with a winter storm and I'm really not looking forward to it.

It was in the 60s here today, with heavy winds and rain, and now we're getting thunderstorms with a tornado watch.  As someone who is terrified of extreme weather, I'm being reminded of my least favorite part of summertime -- trying not to give in to my inclination to panic while gluing myself to the little radar loops on weather websites, watching the blobs go by.  February seems a bit early in the year for me to be in "tornado?!??!" terror mode.

The winter storm wasn't quite so bad in our area, thankfully - I Did leave work early and was glad for it, but the roads mostly were just wet, not slick or icy. We got maybe 2 inches of wet, thick snow on the grass, very little on sidewalks and roads.

Sounds like northern Indiana got totally creamed, though.

Spectacular day on Saturday: mid 70s. One of many problems with Houston weather is that it swings wildly between "too cold to be outside" to "too hot to be outside" with very few "It's so nice outside let's open all the windows in the house and turn off the AC/Heater for once" days in between. Saturday was definitely one of those days. Winter is pretty much done here, and now I don't mind so much.

Weird weather this weekend. Friday was a beautiful day, sunny and around 18 Deg C (Mid 60s F), so I took a bit of on extended lunch to enjoy a walk in T-Shirt weather.

Saturday started out beautiful, and was sunny and probably around 10 Deg C (50s F). At noon it started to snow like crazy. We must have gotten 3-4 inches in a couple of hours. Then it stopped, sun came out, and almost all of the snow melted by nightfall.

Sunday was another nice day in the mid-50s, and that melted whatever snow was remaining.

This morning. I don't know what to say. I must have rained sometime during the night, then the temperatures dropped fast. Woke up to -12 Degrees C (10 F), and a car that was encased in a thick layer of ice which I had to break through to open the door. The windshield was basically un-scrapable since the ice was so hard. So it looks like we're getting another shot at winter today, but it's supposed to come up above freezing tomorrow and will be sunny and cool for the rest of the week and back in to a pseudo-Spring.