OK, It’s Really Time To Give Up On Winter

OK, It’s Really Time To Give Up On Winter

I know all you snow lovers out there have been hoping, praying and generally calling on any higher power all winter long to finally bring gobs of the white stuff to the bare, brown yards of Rhode Island. For the most part your pleadings have gone unanswered. We have managed to total only 17.8 inches of snow since the first flakes fell back there in late October and most of that (7.6 inches) occurred in our one “big” storm on January 21st. To boot, what fell usually didn’t stick around for more than a day or two before it melted away. Temperatures this winter reached into the “blow-torch” category being over 5 degrees above normal from December through February.

Now that March is well underway, it’s fairly obvious that the weather situation is not going to change very much, except, perhaps, with spring close at hand probably it will only get warmer. Yes, for the next 2 or 3 weeks there is still always the chance that an oddball burst of snow could come along but frankly, snow-lovers, it’s time to give it up and wait for next year.

This week promises to be the warmest yet with high temperatures near or above 60 all week long except, of course, within a few miles of the coast with the wind off the chilly ocean. Showers are possible later Monday night into early Tuesday and again sometime over the weekend. With that kind of an outlook the Ghiorse Factor for outdoor activity is likely to be 7 or higher for most of the week.
 

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