Spring has sprung so early

I don’t know about you, but I feel like it’s sum­mer break already and it’s Ohio … in March! What a mar­vel this warm weather has been. The sights, sounds and smells of spring are in full bloom and, accord­ing to Mas­ter Gar­den­ers in Lick­ing County, it’s three weeks early.

I can’t imag­ine how school chil­dren are focus­ing these past few weeks because I know I’ve had trou­ble con­cen­trat­ing on work myself. I sim­ply can’t shake the feel­ing of sum­mer vaca­tion. My neighbor’s had a fire out in their fire pit already. It was all I could do not to run out there and join them, with S’more mak­ings in hand. Alas, I was try­ing to get Sammy to sleep.

Not just the buds and blooms are wak­ing up early either. The yel­low jack­ets are out in full force on my back deck and the lit­tle sugar ants I fight each sum­mer have already invited them­selves in and brought their friends and rel­a­tives. My brain is strug­gling to believe I am deal­ing with these prob­lems in March. It sure makes me won­der what is in store for the sea­sons ahead.

I got to pok­ing around on the Inter­net try­ing to find the lat­est the­o­ries on this nonex­is­tent win­ter and warmer than usual weather. It seems most folks want to blame global warm­ing, La Nina or El Nino, but the pre­dom­i­nant find­ing appears to be that the jet stream, which divides the cold air to the north from the warm air to the south, set­tled at a much higher lat­i­tude this year, accord­ing to the National Oceanic and Atmos­pheric Admin­is­tra­tion. What­ever the cul­prit, this “heat wave” has been break­ing records across the nation — 2,200 of them to be exact.

Accord­ing to Huliq.com, an inde­pen­dent news report­ing orga­ni­za­tion, for­mer Vice Pres­i­dent Al Gore is call­ing it the other March Mad­ness. I also saw it referred to as “the win­ter that wasn’t” — too funny. But you have to admit it is a lit­tle crazy.

Well, guess I bet­ter get my win­ter jacket back out … today it’s only going to be 50 degrees. Brrrrr!

Tues­day Trip­pier lives in Delaware, is a writer and mother of four with a spe­cial inter­est in learn­ing about and writ­ing about green living.

Posted by Tuesday Trippier on Mar 27 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Comments can be made below.