Just think, Spring starts in about two weeks.
Well, not really, officially it starts about the third week of March. However, forever and ever weather people have considered March, April and May as Spring and December, January and February as Winter.
How have we done so far?
A fairly cold December followed by an amazingly warm January. February so far is running fairly close to normal. But the most unusual thing is that the temperature has not been below 23 the entire winter. In January it did not even get below 28. That is amazing. It is most unusual for Birmingham to go through the entire winter without at least getting down into the teens.
Yesterday temperatures soared into the 70s all across Alabama and as warm as 78 in Montgomery. Now we have an intrusion of much colder air starting today and staying with us through most of the weekend. Even so, we don’t expect any temperatures anywhere near the teens.
What does all of this mean for the rest of the year? We don’t know what the summer will be like or even the spring. But unless we can get some very cold temperatures during the last half of February or early March, we will probably be “bugged” to death this summer. We really need some temperatures around 10, 15 or 18 several times during the winter to kill back the bugs and all the other varmints, such as spiders, gnats—you name it.
At this time, we don’t see any real cold weather like that and during this weekend we will be more concerned about the possibility of some frozen precipitation than we will the low temperatures.
-J.B. Elliott
Well, not really, officially it starts about the third week of March. However, forever and ever weather people have considered March, April and May as Spring and December, January and February as Winter.
How have we done so far?
A fairly cold December followed by an amazingly warm January. February so far is running fairly close to normal. But the most unusual thing is that the temperature has not been below 23 the entire winter. In January it did not even get below 28. That is amazing. It is most unusual for Birmingham to go through the entire winter without at least getting down into the teens.
Yesterday temperatures soared into the 70s all across Alabama and as warm as 78 in Montgomery. Now we have an intrusion of much colder air starting today and staying with us through most of the weekend. Even so, we don’t expect any temperatures anywhere near the teens.
What does all of this mean for the rest of the year? We don’t know what the summer will be like or even the spring. But unless we can get some very cold temperatures during the last half of February or early March, we will probably be “bugged” to death this summer. We really need some temperatures around 10, 15 or 18 several times during the winter to kill back the bugs and all the other varmints, such as spiders, gnats—you name it.
At this time, we don’t see any real cold weather like that and during this weekend we will be more concerned about the possibility of some frozen precipitation than we will the low temperatures.
-J.B. Elliott
on February 16, 2006, 10:53 pm
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