monsoonmartin

Habari mori,

Sorry I haven’t posted any weather (or jibba-jabba) for a little while. Kind of a lot going on in the world of Monsoon. The good news is that spring is here and everything is now looking up. Thanks to everyone who sent flowers, well-wishes, emails, texts, gifts, and of course, scrumptious meals (big-ups to Megan!!). We really are lucky.

A brief update on the weather appears below. Soon I’ll have a Bunk update, as tomorrow (Tuesday the 24^th) is the seven-month anniversary of his birth!

Tonight will be clear and quite cold, especially for this time of year. Strong winds will diminish overnight; low will be in the upper teens.

Tuesday will be sunny and continued chilly, with temperatures a bit below normal. Expect a high in the upper 40s with moderate winds, and an overnight low in the mid 20s.

Wednesday looks partly cloudy, windy, and seasonably milder with a high in the mid 50s and an overnight low around 40. A few showers a possible late.

On Thursday temperatures will be nearly steady in the mid to upper 40s with overcast skies. Expect showers and drizzle off and on.

Friday looks quite nice: partly cloudy with a high creeping into the upper 50s to perhaps the low 60s; low only around 40.

The weekend will be overcast, chilly, and rainy. Expect rain mainly on Saturday, but showers and sprinkles* could linger into Sunday. Highs will get into the low 50s on Saturday, then only into the mid 40s on Sunday. On Sunday into Monday, temperatures could dip below freezing—possibly for the last time this season.

*A note about “sprinkles”: that is the proper term for precipitation that is steadier than drizzle but not quite steady enough to send people running for their umbrellas. “Sprinkles” is not the term for those small, oblong toppings that are used to coat an ice cream cone or doughnut. The proper term for these dessert toppings is “jimmies.” Anyone beg to differ?

Jimmies.

A postscript to the note: some have speculated that “jimmies” (used to refer to chocolate ones, with “sprinkles” being used to refer only to the rainbow-colored ones) is a racist term whose origin lies in “Jim-Crow” laws. I am just the sort of fellow who would all-too-eagerly believe in such conspiracy-theory bigoted origins.  However, my own exhaustive research has revealed that this is not true; the term “jimmies” refers to the machine operator at Just Born, which made the “chocolate grains,” later known as “jimmies.” Further confusing the matter is that these items are also sometimes known as “hundreds-and-thousands” and “on-tops” (particularly in Britain, but these also refer to such cousins of jimmies as nonpareils). And that “jimmies” are slang in Canada (and elsewhere) for the genitals, and slang in some parts of the Northeast for prophylactics.

Where was I?

The last couple days of March (Monday and Tuesday) are looking partly cloudy with temperatures a bit lower than normal: highs in the mid to upper 40s, lows in the mid 30s.

Wednesday (April Fool’s Day, and Megan’s birthday) will see a sharp drop-off in temperatures as a moisture-laden system moves through. High will only get into the upper 20s, and we could get as much as six inches of snow from this event.  Expect widespread school closures.

April Fool. (Come on—you didn’t see that coming?) Expect seasonably mild conditions with a high in the mid 50s and a low in the upper 30s for the first day of April.

The rest of the week is looking rainy and cool with temperatures mainly in the low to mid 40s.

The following weekend (and beyond) will see clearing and spring-like conditions: highs in the 50s and reaching toward 60!

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