Woke Up To Snowfall

Had to push snow off the driveway again. If you try and push as much as there is space in the pusher, the snow will weigh much more when the temperature has been above freezing for a while. Good news are I don't need to go to the gym. The street has 50 cm tall or taller steep walls of snow and the drive way, too.

Sleepyhead was sound asleep when I saw her in the hall while on my way to the bathroom early this morning. She woke up to my passing her.

This weekend will be cloudy and the temperature will be slightly above freezing. It'll go below freezing again next week.

Spring equinox is only a week from now. The last week of March will probably be warmer than this one and the next. Statistically, the snow should be gone by the first week of April. One of the reasons is the fact that the length of day will get longer fast. At spring equinox, the length of day will be getting longer by about six minutes per day. Along with the longer days, the power of the sun will also increase, which causes the spring to be the shortest of the four seasons here. The meteorological definition for the spring is the time when the 24-hour average temperature is between 0 C and 10 C. It coincides with the time between the onset of spring thaw and birch trees having fully grown leaves on them. It usually lasts about six weeks here, give or take a week or two.