An old joke goes that if you don’t like the West Virginia weather all you need to do wait a few minutes and it will change. Almost as soon as the Forsythia bloomed in Smithers the bitter cold settled. The waterfall at the old wall has all but stopped flowing. I’ve always thought that icicles look like teeth. In my imagination the waterfall becomes the very bite of winter itself. However, this is normal. This time of year we have a series of cold and warm weather. And it’s a good thing too. The frost heave is how nature sews the seeds of a lot of the wild plants. The cold makes the water in the soil expand and stand up then as it thaws it covers the seed. This action also opens the protective cover of some seed allowing germination to take place in next few weeks. By late March ( At my latitude ) most of the bitter cold will be gone and we typically have a light dusting of snow near the Easter holiday. I haven’t really looked into it but my gut feeling is that the longer days excite the jet stream in the upper atmosphere and the cold Arctic air is pulled South this time of year.
For now I’ll just bundle up in jacket and wait until old man winter loses his teeth and retreats back to the North.
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Hopefully the last cold snap!
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I won’t be too surprised if there is 1 more by Easter but it usually is short if and when it hits.
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I remember one year, I think it was in the 80’s, that it snowed in April. I’m further South than you, do imagine my surprise!
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Yes we get surprised in late spring sometimes. In 93 I was stranded in Summersville for 3 days.
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I remember being snowed in for days in 1993. In March, I think around the 5th.
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That’s one I remember as well. 3 feet of snow overnight.
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This picture makes me cold just looking at it 🙂 Icicles do look like teeth and it is hard to deny the beauty in some of the shapes the snow and ice form into.
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Thank you ❤ It also reminds me of the poem Xanadu and the song by rush. Perhaps there's a secret door behind the tumult where one finds the honeydew and milk of Paradise. 😉
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