Weather It Is (Spring Springs Back)

Good Afternoon:

After  a week's worth of cold weather, we're about to turn the corner -- as Spring springs back.  Temperatures should begin warming on Tuesday and then warm progressively each day as winds blow from the southeast.  Sunshine, which has been in short supply, should be in abundance.

Yesterday's rain produced about 1/2 inch of rain in Efrat.  This is about 12 mm of rain. Where I come from, this is a good day's rain.  However, during the January storm as much as 50 mm or more fell during a single day.  Of course, it doesn't usually rain during the late spring and summer months, so it's important that 50 mm in a single winter's rain event happen more frequently than not.  Moreover, after our late winter drought, the rain is welcome.

This last storm had very winter like characteristics, and some said that the weather had a turned a bit weird. "Weird" weather is one defining characteristic of weather in a global warming world, yet one can not draw long term conclusions from a single period of uncommonly cold weather (for April, no less).

Barry Lynn