monsoonmartin

March 20th is the birthday of basketball great Daron Oshay "Mookie" Blaylock. The band Pearl Jam originally called themselves Mookie Blaylock, changing the name before released its first album, but naming the debut album (Ten) after Mookie's uniform number.Hi.

I really thought winter was over.  Meteorological winter ended on February 29th.  And the actual season of winter will end on Sunday night, March 20th.

It's the vernal equinox (from the Latin vernus, of the spring, and the Latin equi + noctium = equal night).  And it may bring a consarned, flibberty-gibbeted, sum-bastardy snowstorm.

But it probably won't.

It's a Nor'easter - a coastal storm.  In order for us to get accumulating, school-canceling, travel-snarling snow (given the sun angle, the surface warmth due to the mild recent temperatures, and all that), we'd have to get heavy snow for an extended period, and we'd have to get just the right shot of arctic air, and the track would have to be just right.

All of which could happen.  I just don't think it's likely.

Right now I'd give us a 6% chance of this materializing into a snowstorm worth a good g.d.

Of course, you should stay tuned for updates!

Monsoon