24\u00a0 87%\u00a0 21%\u00a0 0mph\u00a0 SSW\u00a0 bar29.96\u00a0 steady\u00a0 Winter<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Gibbous Winter Moon<\/p>\n
As the winter moon wanes, a warm up heads our way.\u00a0 Tomorrow the temperature will hit 40.\u00a0 That’s a sixty degree swing within the week.\u00a0 Not unusual for Minnesota, but impressive anyhow.\u00a0 I’ve read that we have the most significant temperature and weather type fluctuations of anywhere on earth, though Siberia is similar.\u00a0 That’s Siberia.\u00a0 As in the place to which you were exiled as to the lonliest and most inclement place on earth from Moscow.\u00a0 One of the most inclement places on earth.\u00a0 So….<\/p>\n
On this point Paul Douglas, local weather sage, whose long term eye is better than his short term one, has a website up that is worth a visit, www.climatespot.com<\/a>. I’ve added it to the blogroll, too.<\/p>\n The sun shines today and small dimples have begun to show up at the base of trees, shrubs and the winter remnants of last year’s flower garden.\u00a0 As the weather warms, the snow sinks away first at the point where something that can warm up meets the ground.\u00a0 I hope that this warm up will bring a fresh snowfall, one that will fill in the dimples and freshen up the sagging snow.\u00a0 It looks, and feels, like early March, deceptive though.\u00a0 In March I can look out the window, notice the same changes and get the feeling, as I did momentarily this morning, plants have begun to stir underneath, that buds will open on trees and maybe a few early daffodils and the bloodroot will break the ground.\u00a0 In March that is a fond hope, one with the chance of reality in a month or so, two at most.\u00a0 In late January, not true.\u00a0 February can have cold and snow like January.\u00a0 March often has big snow, but the snow doesn’t last.\u00a0 That feeling today only leads to dis-ease.\u00a0 It is not a hope that can sustain itself in the near term future.<\/p>\n I continue my study of Taoism, look for some new additions to the Taoism pages.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 24\u00a0 87%\u00a0 21%\u00a0 0mph\u00a0 SSW\u00a0 bar29.96\u00a0 steady\u00a0 Winter \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Gibbous Winter Moon As the winter moon wanes, a warm up heads our way.\u00a0 Tomorrow the temperature will hit 40.\u00a0 That’s a sixty degree swing within the week.\u00a0 Not unusual for Minnesota, but impressive anyhow.\u00a0 I’ve read that we have the most significant temperature and … Continue reading A Sixty Degree Temperature Swing<\/span>