As Terri mentioned in her #SundayStills post, March 1st marked the first day of meteorological spring, yet the entire month of February felt more like spring than the first few days of March, at least in my parts.

According to the local weatherperson, February 2024 was the 5th wettest February in the history of record-keeping, delivering an abnormal high amount of rain – over 3 inches – and an abnormal low amount of snow. In my mind, I thought, maybe the groundhog got it right for 2024, maybe we are having an early spring. It actually made me panicked a little that I might be starting my spring crops a little too late.

This past weekend, we were hit by a slow-moving storm, which brought 50-70 mph gusts between Friday and Saturday. I had to brave the wind a couple of times to secure the covers over my plants despite already putting bricks and patio stones to weigh them down. My newly constructed hoophouse in the backyard got partially deconstructed and uprooted by the wind and I had to reconstruct it and pin it in place with about 2 boxes of plastic clamps and binder clips. For a moment, I wondered if that’s how meterologists feel when they are reporting during a hurricane or a tornado.

By the end of day on Saturday, there was around an inch of slushy wet snow and the temperature went from 50-degree-Fahrenheit to 30-degree-Fahrenheit. Looking at the weather app on my phone, there was snow on the way.

By the time I woke up on Sunday, probably another 2 inches of snow was dumped overnight. Thankfully, it was the powdery stuff, not the slushy kind.

Yes, there’s a difference. The powdery snow is lighter and easier to shovel while the slushy kind of snow is the kind that makes you feel pain all over the next day. Though I’ll have to admit, it does look prettier with a layer of fresh powder.