We’re well into spring, but it’s been an unusual transition. We enjoyed a mild winter with below normal rainfall, few extremely cold days and very little fog. Early March brought warm, sunny, spring-like days. Evenings were still chilly, but flowers were blooming and birds were chirping. Spring, my favorite season, had arrived early bringing light breezes and delightful daytime temperatures in the 70s! Some have called this an El Niño year. In any event, it certainly wasn’t a “normal” winter.

By mid-March, I’d put away my umbrella and broken out the shorts and Hawaiian shirts. So I was completely unprepared for the sudden shift back to chilly, grey, rainy weather in late April. The string of cold, rainy days seemed out of place this far into spring. Last week was cold - in the 50s - and this past weekend in the 80s. Yesterday hit 95 and the forecast for today is more of the same!

I suppose Mother Nature is just evening the score so I’m not putting away my rain gear just yet. And while most folks are delighting in the summer temps, I’m longing for the the return of the “real” spring.