I heard on the TV weather that 47 of the lower 48 states have snow on the ground. Only Florida has no snow. You poor Floridians. Look what you’re missing by not living in central Virginia:
Though we’re in the early days of March, this is typical February weather. One day is calm, the next day the wind howls with 50 mph gusts and blows down trees and knocks out electricity. One day the high temperature is in the mid-30s, the next day it’s in the upper-60s. One day it’s rainy but not cold; then it’s sunny but freeze-your-butt-off cold.
Often the forecast will change, but this time of year it never changes for the better. If anything changes this week, it will be Thursday’s snow spreading into Friday. When we get a sunny day, it comes with a promise of more bad weather just behind it. January is mainly cold but often brings a week of mild weather called the “January thaw.” February to mid-March is a day-to-day roller-coaster: mild, bitterly cold, sunny, snowy.
One day winter will end. Then we’ll have a week of nice weather called Spring. Then the central-Virginia summer will come, the polar opposite of winter, bringing sultry days with a heat index of 112°, 117°, 120°, and sweltering nights where, if you don’t have air conditioning, you lie naked on the sheets beside an open window and simply – not to put too fine a point on it – sweat. Oh, the anticipation.
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