• Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
It’s been nearly six weeks since Punxsutawney Phil, the prognosticator of prognosticators, declared that we would have six more weeks of winter. I’m not sure how often he’s right, but he sure was this year. It snowed periodically all day on Monday. It was cold, windy and wet yesterday, and the snowflakes were falling about an hour ago. For the first time since 2005, I’m looking forward to spring. Last year in January, I was able to drive with my roof down! When it did snow at the end of March, I was actually very happy, since that was the only real snowfall we had during that winter. This year, it snowed in December and was comfortably cold. It made drinking Glühwein at the Christmas markets very enjoyable. January was very cold, and it snowed again toward the end of the month, and again in February. Last Friday, we had a beautiful day of snow. The snow was very wet and seemed like it would change to rain. It didn’t. The snow fell ALL day and, depending on where you hiked, accumulated to about six inches. The forecast for next week? Wet and cold, but no snow. Winter is not giving up very easily this year.
Phil making his 2009 prediction.
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