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Now, where did I put those wellies?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-05/ ... /100883168

pommystuart wrote: ↑Fri Mar 04, 2022 9:24 pm Now, where did I put those wellies?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-05/ ... /100883168

Oh dear! Between fires and floods your area is suffering. Honestly it looks like you need full blown waders

20C and cloudy here in Pittsburgh at about 1430!

Had lunch outside in the garden although it was frosty overnight. Two pigeons obviously thought spring had arrived with much head bobbing and beak clacking including beak to beak contact then a brief mounting followed by a startled 'Good heavens that human was WATCHING' and flurry of wings.

FYI (or not)

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-09/ ... /100893358

Michael wrote: ↑Tue Mar 08, 2022 11:44 pm

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Woke up to about 6 inches of snow this morning.
Spent the last half hour or so sweeping the snow and chopping the ice off the flight of wood slat stairs that are my only exit.
My fingers don't quite bend right for typing - not that I am much of a typist normally.

I thought I understood the conversions between the US system and the metric system, but I must be missing some subtle point.
When I look at metric it says snow showers. When I look at the US it says cloudy.

Window says cloudy...

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Metric now says cloudy.

I had seen a few crocuses over the past week, but today I saw lots of daffodils just starting to come out.

Lots of daffodils out here, my forsythia is showing yellow flowers, not fully open yet and the flowing currant is showing deep pink buds. My neighbours tree is covered in white blossom and it was warm enough to sit out in the garden without a jacket. The next couple of weeks looks as if it will be warm, not quite as warm as today most of the time but definitely warm for the time of year. It spurred me to do some tidying in the garden. Can't really see any transformation but the garden waste bin has a satisfying thick layer at the bottom so I must have achieved something

I did see one forsythia with a few flowers open, but they didn't look very healthy.

We've had daffodils and a variety of blossoms for two or three weeks now. Lots of forsythia, too.

Different route today, and I saw more forsythia

Temperatures highs and lows (deg C) for Monday to Monday for Pittsburgh, PA
Mar 21: 19/5
Mar 22: 14/9
Mar 23: 15/10
Mar 24: 15/6
Mar 25: 8/4
Mar 26: 6/-2
Mar 27: 1/-6
Mar 28: 5/-3

A joke goes that a newcomer asks what is normal Pittsburgh weather.
The local replies above normal and below normal.

Ha Ha about Pittsburg's "normal."
Last October, at my Father's burial, I took crocuses to plant knowing I would likely not be able to travel across country this year to decorate his and my Mother's graves ( in Central Illinois.) Thanks for all the flower updates, I had been wondering if the flowers would be up and blooming. Lots of things are blooming in me garden in Southern California; it is Spring- but not exactly the same. Thanks.

Two days later...

Readings from the Pittsburgh Int’l. Airport
through 5 p.m. March 30, 2022 (^oF)
High ................................ 75
Normal high ......................... 55
Year ago ............................ 72
Record high ......................... 82 (1998)
Low ................................. 32
Normal low .......................... 35
Year ago ............................ 35
Record low .......................... 15 (1941)