It’s shoulder season out there. Spring as we know, doesn’t come to the mountains until mid-May, when things finally green up.
But by now, one can pretty much take it for granted that a lot of energy of winter is diminished as each day becomes harder for it to be cold with the sun’s angle growing stronger.
Lots of mud and “surprise” snow in the mountains will be left for some time, but eventually it will dry up and green up too. Figure May 10th to be safe.
Good Morning. Happy First Day of Spring. It’s a Thursday. A rainy one at that, but supposedly the rain is going to clear out before late. There was some sleet and ice last night, but now it’s warmed back up. At least for a while we won’t have to be dealing with open burning bans or wild fire risks. I kind of hope spring remains wet.
This morning in 1967, it was negative 10 degrees in Albany.
But it's not the original traffic controller from the 1930s, but they kept the green above red light.
In one month, April 17th, the average high is 57 degrees and the average low is 38 degrees. There is hope for spring in Albany.
Everybody's favorite holiday celebrating legumes with cancerous growths.
A lot of people are complaining about the early week for the start of daylight savings time, but I don’t know, I would prefer to have more daylight in the evening then in the morning. I would rather have some daylight when I get out of work and deal with somewhat darker mornings – although as I am a 9-5 employee, the mornings really aren’t too dark either.
I look forward to having a daylight in the evening to go down to the park and read, although days will have to get a fair bit longer and the snow will have to melt first. But those days can’t be too far away.
Winter is rapidly starting to fade away, even if the mercury isn’t showing it the past few days. The reality is if it’s below 20 degrees all day in March then when we switch to above average temperature it will be in the 50s and 60s, and the snow will rapidly melt away. Usually in the Albany area in the spring, we have weather in the 20s until a high front comes through, and it goes up to the 70s and 80s.
I won’t get my hopes up to high. It may warm up — even be oppressively hot in March or April, but spring really won’t come until late April in the lowest elevations, and not until mid-May in the Adirondacks.
Next weekend starts daylight savings time.... should be nice having more daylight in the evening, despite it being somewhat darker in the morning.