Statement as of 4:00 am MST on March 20, 2002

...A Winter Weather Advisory Remains In Effect Through This Evening...

A mixture of snow...rain and freezing rain will occur early this morning...before changing to all snow. Total snow accumulations of 3 to 6 inches in the valley with locally higher amounts over higher terrain and in mountain areas...can be expected by this evening. East winds at 15 to 30 mph will be developing in the valley during the morning...which will result in areas of blowing and drifting snow. ___ ___

-- B. Lackie - ZZZZZone3 (cwrench@hotmail.com), March 20, 2002

Answers

Was 9 degrees here ithis morning in Minnesota. It's possible to be below zero the next couple nights. Ah yes, spring. :)

--->Paul

-- paul (ramblerplm@hotmail.com), March 20, 2002.

Its in the 40s at night here and up to the 60s in day. Love california !

-- kathy h (ckhart55@earthlink.net), March 20, 2002.

Spring arrives at 2:16 pm!

-- chickadee (chickadee@treetops.com), March 20, 2002.

One word describes spring here~~~~MUD!

-- Ardie/WI (ardie54965@hotmail.com), March 20, 2002.

Blizzard warning for NW Montana thru tonight (20 MAR 2002) ...dangersous windchills...north winds turning north east 25-kts. 18" to 24" snow in valleys; 2 to 4-ft above 2200-ft elev; 4 to 5-ft above 5500-ft elev. Mountain snowpack presently 108% of normal. 40.4" of snow and counting. http://vortex.plymouth.edu/uschill.gif Yeah just what I needed on the First Day of Spring!

-- al (yr2012@hotmail.com), March 20, 2002.

Spring update:

13" of fresh powder and coming down strong. the ducks are "swimming" in it and having a great time.

-- B. Lackie - Zone3 (cwrench@hotmail.com), March 20, 2002.

Drove home at 2:00 this afternoon from MA to CT.....snow comin' down in both states. Good thing it's spring! (zone 5/6) :)

-- Sue (sulandherb@aol.com), March 20, 2002.

My son is outside right now with bare feet and a kite. Tomorrow night it will be 12 degrees. Yep, it's spring all right!!!!!

-- Terri (hooperterri@prodigy.net), March 20, 2002.

Well, the weatherman said it was supposed to drop back into the 70s yesterday afternoon and be cool and breezy today. NOT!!

Had to give up in the garden at 10:45am - I've had just too much sunburn and exposure this week and am feeling a little "tender tummy" from the heat.

Was 84 degrees on the weather station out the kitchen window!

We sure could use some of that moisture that inundated TN and KY this week, but the Weather Channel looks awfully dry our way.

-- Michaela (flhomestead@hotmail.com), March 20, 2002.

was snowing this morning , near whiteout conditions, and of course, at about 1 am , i had to trudge to the barn to check a doe and see if she was kidding, cause she was crying to beat the band , tunrs out she had jumped into the feeder, and couldnt get out ..(its 5 ft high, and only 2 ft wide)

-- Beth Van Stiphout (willosnake@hotmail.com), March 20, 2002.

It's 8:00 p.m. here on the coast of Maine. Snowing like gang-busters, but big wet flakes and it's almost 40 degrees. Supposed to get about 4" of snow, but by Monday it's supposed to be close to 50 degrees again! Fickle spring weather!! I can still remember the natives telling us when we moved to this state 25 yrs. ago..."If you can't take the winters, then you don't deserve the summers!"

-- Marcia (HrMr@webtv.net), March 20, 2002.

No snow forcast for the Chihuahuan desert, but no mositure either and we really need some!

-- BC (desertdweller44@yahoo.com), March 20, 2002.

I am convinced it is all my fault at I just got a well put in and had the plumbing done in a new wellhouse I had built out of salvaged materials but had not worried about getting it insulated untill fall. It is supposed to get down to 16 tomarrow night here in southwest missouri. Guess I will be using a lot of electricity as the only thing I can think of is to put in an electric heater and then watch the electic meter just go around and around.......gail

-- gail missouri ozarks (gefozarks@centurytel.net), March 20, 2002.

Oh good. I was afraid it was my fault, since I posted (on another board) how springlike everything felt la de da, and I was going to go in the next day or to and start getting all the old dead stuff out of the herb garden and so on. Cold, wind, snow, ever since! Me and MY big mouth.Sheesh!

I feel for you though, my dead herbs aren't in any danger of being ruined! Hang in there...

-- Novina in ND (homespun@stellarnet.com), March 21, 2002.

Spring my fanny!

Tuesday I was at home all day and it went to *90* on my back porch! My body is still in cool weather mode and NOT ready for this. In another month or so it'll feel normal like it does every year.

They're talking *maybe* a mind El Nino this year so perhaps our multi-year drought will break!

.......Alan.

-- Alan (athagan@atlantic.net), March 21, 2002.