Snow in Spring
It’s Spring! Normally I’d be thinking of crocuses and
daffodils and waiting for the hibiscus to send out thick buds that will turn
into giant red flowers. But this season has started off strangely. The bushes
in our backyard are showing puffs of white instead of the colorful promise of
hydrangeas. Branches from the pine trees are touching the ground with the
weight of wet snow.
What is going on? This is the fourth nor’easter we’ve had
this month, bringing snow and sleet at a time when we should be having a gentle
shift into the next season. We speak about global warming and yet we see snow
in Spring?
I remember the saying that March comes in like a lion and
goes out like a lamb. I also can recall one year that we had snow in the
beginning of April. So things do sometimes defy expectations. However, we are
in a time of large shifts in our climate.
It’s hard to ignore the changes that are taking place across the world.
The atmosphere is heating up, causing glaciers to melt, oceans to rise, more
floods, and fires in drier lands. And yet, we can still have snow at the
beginning of Spring.
What we do affects things, whether it is personally or
globally. Our climate has changed over the millennia but we seem to be hurrying
things up lately. I hope that our current leaders work to minimize climate
changes rather than take a short-term approach for political gains. Our planet
is a marvelous place; let’s try our best to support it.
U.S. Spring forecast:
NASA evidence of global warming:
https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
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