Elaine
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Spring FeverSpringtime is in the air and the wildflowers are in bloom again! Oh joy! 
(Photos by Francine Orr & Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
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Travis
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It snowed non-negligibly here last night and there is no serious roadwork going on here yet, so we are still in the season "still winter" here rather than the next one, "construction".
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Lazar
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Haha. Over here it's snow-free, but still cool.
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KSa
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In Poland we have a saying: "March is like a melting pot in which all seasons are mixed". And it's actually like this this year. However, I sense the Spring coming. The buds on the trees are about to burst, the birds are being heard more often.
Quite interestingly, near my house there is a high tree on which a bird has been singing beautiful tunes since...the beginning of February! It's surprising how it survived quite deep frosts which came in the meantime. The most surprising, however, is that it sings... in the night! I was woken up by it at 2 or 3 a.m. several times and I must admit this is quite idescribable to hear such beautiful singing coming out of the silence of the night... I'm not an expert so I don't know the species. I suspected it to be a nightingale but I checked in a book and this is not. The nightingales arrive to Poland in May the earliest. What can it be? A blackbird? Does anyone have any idea on what it can be?
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André in Zuid-Afrika
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Re: Spring Fever | Elaine wrote: | | Springtime is in the air and the wildflowers are in bloom again! Oh joy! |
Speak for yourself...  Winter's approaching here. Warm days still, but cold nights....
But hey, I'm not complaining, I like the winter....
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fab
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few weeks ago we had the feeling that spring was coming... but since then we had pretty bad weather for the season. It now a bit less cool, around daily 15°C.
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Benjamin [inactive]
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It was actually very sunny in northeast Fife today, and it did feel as though winter had finally ended. But unfortunately, it's apparently going to snow at the weekend.
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Uriel
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Nice and warm here; only the nights are a little bit chilly. Sweater chilly, not coat chilly. If you live in NM, you live for spring and fall, when the temperatures are juuuuust right.
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Deborah
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I was in Seattle for six days, and it was unusually cold for this time of year. It even snowed twice. The snow didn't stick around for long, though. Mainly, it was just cold, rainy and windy. I didn't really dress for the weather and I walked a lot, and as a result, my knees got a bit stiff. But the day I took the ferry to Bainbridge Island to visit an old friend, the weather cleared up for a few hours in the afternoon, and it was beautiful.
Here's somebody's photo of Seattle, seen from the Bainbridge Island ferry. That's a bit of the island in the foreground on the left.
Click to see full size image
That's not what the weather was like when I was on the ferry, though. It was cloudy but not terribly windy on one side of the ferry, and raining on the other side! The wind was so strong that the rain felt like hail.
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Benjamin [inactive]
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Over the past few days, I've been too hot in my large duffle-coat for the first time since about September. I stopped off in Perth on the way back from Inverness today, and it was brilliant sunshine and apparently 16°C— the daffodils were out and everything.
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greg in noord-frankrijk
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Yesterday was mild. Today was kind of pseudowarm and almost quasisunny. Pourvu que ça dure !...
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Travis
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It's still bleak, gray, and rather cool (high 30s F, low 40s F) and all the grass and non-evergreen trees still look very dead here. Luckily most of the snow here has melted, at least... even though at this rate it could very well snow again before next winter here.
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greg in noord-frankrijk
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Third day of pleasantly warmish light in a row : 15° + not so mendacious clouds.
Very nice pics, Elaine. 
| André in Zuid-Afrika wrote: | | But hey, I'm not complaining, I like the winter.... |
Me too. And I love it when it's gone !... Winter can last six months here (even if it's nothing close to Wisconsinite winter).
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Travis
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Today, at least, it it is actually quite warm by the standards of Wisconsin at this time of the year (mid 60s F), but everything other than evergreen trees and bushes still looks just as dead here nonetheless.
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Elaine
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| KSa wrote: | | Quite interestingly, near my house there is a high tree on which a bird has been singing beautiful tunes since...the beginning of February! It's surprising how it survived quite deep frosts which came in the meantime. The most surprising, however, is that it sings... in the night! I was woken up by it at 2 or 3 a.m. several times and I must admit this is quite idescribable to hear such beautiful singing coming out of the silence of the night... I'm not an expert so I don't know the species. I suspected it to be a nightingale but I checked in a book and this is not. The nightingales arrive to Poland in May the earliest. What can it be? A blackbird? Does anyone have any idea on what it can be? |
Could it have been a robin?
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fab
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IS THAT SPRING???
Today it snowed in Paris!!! Now we are officially in spring, It is colder than it was in Winter... We hadn't no one snow flake during all winter, and now we have... (not that much, but some melting flakes this morning)
temperatures are still very low for the season...
but it seems to be even colder in Switzerland and Germany
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André in Zuid-Afrika
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Re: Spring Fever | André in Zuid-Afrika wrote: | | Elaine wrote: | | Springtime is in the air and the wildflowers are in bloom again! Oh joy! |
Speak for yourself... Winter's approaching here. Warm days still, but cold nights....
But hey, I'm not complaining, I like the winter.... |
Getting chilly now at night, had a cool day today, around 25 degrees.
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Rio
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Er, you mean Autumn fever? I'm really looking to winter this year, nice 20 degree days with endless blue skies, which means I can go out and have a great walk. They've been like that for a while though being up here in Northern Australia :)
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Benjamin [inactive]
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| fab wrote: | |
Lol, when I first saw this, my immediate reaction was 'wow, that's hot!!'
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