Saturday, February 24, 2024

The February Weather Rollercoaster!

This has been the strangest February in my memory for up and down weather.  And the 'ups' have ben frankly ridiculous and a little scary!  It's worrying that we have had a February so completely unlike any previous February in my life!  We need cold and snow to kill off the bugs, replenish the water table, and keep the ski hills open.

This is our front lawn on Feb. 5th!  Absolutely absurd!

It just kept on melting.  Cross-country skiers were getting frustrated!

At the low point there wasn't much snow left, and lots of green - this on Feb. 10th.

Then the rollercoaster started back the other direction with a light bit of 'graupel'.

I love ferns, so I like this Christmas Fern with a those tiny bits of white accumulating.

For comparison, here's just one picture of our snowstick from a year ago this month.





11 comments:

  1. Know what you mean about the weather. The same here.

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  2. Our weather has been up and down but not as extreme as yours! Incredible.

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  3. We're all living through the impacts of the changing climate and yet many of the politicians down here deny it's happening or that humans have nothing to do with it. Of course they'll probably be out of office before the most significant impacts are seen, our grandchildren will be the ones who suffer.

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  4. It's been a scary winter with too many record high temperatures. It's made too much ice here for me to enjoy my regular walks.

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  5. The weather has been crazy everywhere! I wonder how we'll pay for it?

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  6. Even here, I begin so see some bare patches. It is unusual for February.

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  7. We have a cold front on the way, taking our mild temps with it!

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  8. It's been like that here too, with a little less melting than you've seen. Tomorrow it's supposed to drop below -20C for a day or so, and then we're back to close to freezing again for the rest of the week. There was snow falling yesterday but it melted as it hit the ground/pavement so there was no accumulation.
    Weird weather indeed!

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  9. The weather is definitely strange here as well.

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  10. Here in my part of the UK we've had a lot of rain.

    All the best Jan

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