IEM Daily Feature
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
Did spring already start?
Posted: 13 Mar 2013 05:42 AM
After yet another snow storm and a day of blowing snow, many are hoping
for spring! Has spring already come? The featured map presents the
date that ends the coldest 91 day (one fourth of the year) period of
the year based on NCDC climatology. If you use this metric to consider
when "spring starts", the general pattern is for spring to arrive first
over the west and progress eastward. Iowa's start date is shown to be
the last week of February which means we are about on week three of
spring already! Perhaps this is why spring seems so short as we go
from winter into summer as snow storms are very common in Iowa for
March, which is a spring month.
Voting:
Good = 24
Bad = 4
Tags: spring
Voting:
Good = 24
Bad = 4
Tags: spring