First Day of Spring?
March 20th, 2010 by John Wolfe
Thought you’d get a kick out of seeing what my neighborhood looked like when I woke up this morning. We received more snow (on the first day of spring) than we did throughout the entire winter. Currently, about five hours after this photo was taken, the sun’s shining and the white stuff’s all gone. And to think, yesterday we were being pounded by high winds and rain–gotta love New Mexico’s wide variety of weather patterns.
March 20th, 2010 at 5:27 pm
Holy Moly…..in MARCH??? In New Mexico??? And people thought Cali was weird
That sure isn’t our weather. We reached a recorded breaking 80 degrees here and more than half of everyone walking around was wearing as little clothing as possible. I felt like I just came from the north pole with my jeans and long sleeved shirt yesterday. That’s unreal to see snow like that when we’re practically roasting over here.
Spring? LoL…..around here we get 2 weeks of it before it goes straight to HOT summer days….and then some! Nice pic John
March 20th, 2010 at 5:35 pm
You guys are on the opposite end of the spectrum–your spring has already turned into summer and our spring appears to be an extension of winter for a while longer. I’m cool with prolonging winter a bit more, however, ’cause it keeps the temps down while working on my props.
Did the photo make you want to run out and build a snowman?
March 20th, 2010 at 5:41 pm
No it didn’t BUT it did make me want to sled down a snowy hill. I just love speed like that and short of roller coasters nothing beats the feeling of sledding down a really long snowy hillside. One more thing…my God your fast
I turned around to make sure my grammar was correct and BAMMO you had it approved and up and running 
March 20th, 2010 at 10:13 pm
You should have seen here in the east mountains! I didn’t expect that much snow, but it was really beautiful!
March 20th, 2010 at 10:39 pm
Goldie,
How could I forget about going sledding? It seems the small amounts of snow we get near Albuquerque are pretty much only suitable for snowball fights and making snowmen; it’s never really deep enough to do some serious sledding. Back when I was a kid, living in places like Maine and South Dakota, sledding was always the first thing to come to mind because almost every storm would dump at least ten inches or more.
Then, what was really cool–the snowplows would come out to push the snow into piles over twelve-feet high! That attracted us kids like crazy for sledding. Of course, we’d always use our own tricks for modifying the hills, like carving out deeper “trails” and wetting it all down with water!
Yeah, I was quick this time around, ’cause we were both online at the same time.
Lesley,
I figured you guys were getting it out there for sure, especially since they closed I-40 down all the way back to the Eubank exit–that’s almost unheard of! Great to hear from you.
March 20th, 2010 at 11:14 pm
I shouldn’t tell you I’ve been swimming in the pool already–but I will!
March 21st, 2010 at 6:46 am
Got some of that here in Oklahoma. Snowed all day yesterday. The high winds even knocked over one of our trees. Hello Spring…
March 21st, 2010 at 12:46 pm
autumnforest,
I figured so–especially since you already had the cover off in the video of your backyard. Tell you what, let’s trade locations, but come June and July–I’ll gladly trade back.
Andrea,
Ooh, sorry to hear that. It sounds like the storm we got moved into your neck of the woods right after exiting New Mexico.