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16 March 2006Spring testI think we can pass this pretty easily: [ x ] Sunrise and sunset 12 hours apart. [ x ] Trees beginning to develop new crop of leaves. [ x ] Rainy weather pattern beginning. [ x ] Pre-dawn freeze more the exception than the rule. [ ] Twentieth of March has arrived. Four out of five. I'd say that's probably good enough — though that "rainy pattern," predicted for tomorrow through Monday, had better produce more than the meager three-quarters of an inch the skies have coughed up so far this year. Posted at 7:25 AM to Weather or NotRats, we get 0/5 (11 hours and 56 minutes of sunligh according to wunderground.com). Not to mention two multiple-inch accumulations of snow this week. Gotta love March... Posted by: Steve G. at 10:04 AM on 16 March 2006Or, you know, sunlighT... That's what I get for not using preview. Posted by: Steve G. at 10:06 AM on 16 March 2006We've had snow in March before. But we're something like 600 miles closer to the equator than the Twin Cities are. (And we're out of sync with the Gods of Time: that 12-hour span from sunrise to sunset runs from 6:39 am to 6:39 pm.) Pre-dawn freeze more the exception than the rule. In my part of the world, you can spot us that one in January and February. Of the remaining four, we're batting .500, although our normal weather pattern here is occasional lines of thunderstorms, and that has begun to develop. Posted by: McGehee at 11:18 AM on 16 March 2006March 20th should be worthy of celebration then. At least according to Google. Posted by: joe at 2:01 PM on 16 March 2006 |