“Spring has sprung, the grass has ‘ris, I wonder where the birdies is?” That is my welcome I say every year on the first day of the meteorological spring, which arrived on March 1. But I have to tell you, it certainly didn’t feel like spring Friday, not even close. My winter jacket was zipped from bottom to top.
I heard from so many of you Friday about all the snow that was falling and actually sticking to the ground. You didn’t have to go far in elevation to observe white snowflakes and covered trees and ground. A winter wonderland in portions of our east county.
Here in the lowlands everyone saw snowflakes falling in the rain and at times all snow in the heavier showers. This was a widespread event with snow falling even at the coast. The cold upper-level trough of low pressure will linger all weekend with night and early morning snow showers near sea level and sticking snow higher up and decent accumulations above 1,000 feet.
I must tell you this cold weather pattern is likely to last into early next week and then only slightly warmer. One of our faithful observers several hundred feet in the north county had snow falling and plenty of a wintry mix. They reported that the term “wintry mix” is OK but the past couple of days “It was falling slush.” I’m always learning new weather terms from folks over the years. I remember a decade or two ago the phrase “chunky rain” to note a mix of snow and rain.
