@Honeeecombs We’re in our deepest winter here, which is also the deepest winter ever anywhere on recorded earth. We’ve had over 800” of snow and a three day long storm just started last night that’s going to bring another 48 inches. It’s been sunny exactly five days since Nov. 1, 2022. It’s been stormy and darkly grey and cloudy for over four months now. I’m tired of getting up in the mornings and opening my blinds to grey, brown, dead earth, and dreariness. Still snow everywhere. Snowing today. My birthday last week usually sees croci, daffodils, and tulips blooming, but there are zero flowers this year. Our highs are still 35° with lows of 19°. The birds aren’t back yet. Longest winter ever. Fortunately I love the cold and the snow. But it’s been very depressing with all the grey. People are really starting to get depressed here. Farmers haven’t been able to plant their crops. If it heats up fast in May to 100’F like it usually does, all that snowpack will melt very quickly and bring disastrous flooding. Accordingly, people across the state are sandbagging like crazy. In 1983, which was a similarly deep year with ultra-rapid snowmelt, we had to turn State Street into a river by using sandbags. We now have several more reservoirs up in the mountains, and water storage basins in the valleys, but we may still have to build a river in the middle of the city again. The sides of all the other rivers are getting sandbagged in preparation for that snow melt. Who knows, maybe we’ll have a gradual warming up and get a cool summer for a change. Everybody would welcome that. The past several summers here have had over 20 days over 110°. When I was growing up, we would barely hit 100° a couple of times a summer. Interesting times. I’m glad it’s spring where you are! Sounds lovely!
