I guess it really was unrealistic of me to think that last year’s heat-end date could be replicated every year– without checking to see if last March was unusually warm… which it was. I’ve expanded the last moving-average-of-daily-averages graph from the last post a bit, both forwards and back, to show the whole month of March. Overall, last March was 6.9º warmer than this March!
Also I added in a green line for the historical average daily average. Overall, this March has been only 0.3º colder than usual. But, as you can see, the past week and a half it’s been consistently quite a bit chillier.
Which explains why we managed to have a #&#%ing blizzard yesterday. We were down to about 10% snow cover, but now we’re back to 100%! I had hopes it would all melt today, but I don’t think today’s predicted high temp of 37º (11º below average!) is going to do the job. By the time this snow is gone, I think the fires will be too. We’ve had only one in the past week or so.
April 7, 2011 at 6:27 am |
This snow shouldn’t be stopping you from biking with us, though! C’mon, man!
April 7, 2011 at 6:36 am |
Uh, hello– I went for a bike ride last Sunday, while SOMEone was SKIING… seems like the snow prevented you from riding with me, not vice-versa! : )
April 7, 2011 at 7:31 am
Where were you at 1pm yesterday? 20 miles in the wind!
Did you ride with the group on Sunday?