One month ago today, I ended my column, “I guess the only downside in the weather outlook is it looks like more clouds and showers are headed this way for next week.” Thought I would start out with this sentence to describe the upcoming week and get it over with.
Moving on to a little chuckle — on Whidbey Island, a weekly publication called The Whidbey Marketplace and News had a seven-day weather forecast complete with the familiar sun/clouds/rain icons. The header went like this: “Your Guess is as Good as Our Guess Weather Forecast.” Isn’t that the truth? Seems the extended forecast as shown on local TV changes as often as the wind.
According to the National Climatic Data Center, the planet just experienced its warmest March since records began in 1880. For the U.S. mainland, it was the 32nd-warmest March in 116 years of records. According to the NCDC, when looking at the average mean temperatures, Florida was the coldest state last month; in fact it was their fourth-coldest March on record.
Thank goodness El Niño is steadily weakening; maybe our weather can get back to normal — whatever that is. It should be gone by mid-summer. I would expect a delightful late summer and early fall with dry and warm conditions.
