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Can we just get through spring 2013 without the severe weather? March was so quiet! It was wonderful. Im from the south and were known for our severe weather in the warm months. 2011 was horrible, it was a very tragic year. Will 2013 be anything like 2011? It was among the worst times for folks trying to live through such horror
I know last year was extremely abnormal for Kentucky, with temperatures far above where they should have been. I've seen flukes throughout my 54 years in this area, but generally speaking it has gotten progressively warmer since my youth, with less Winter and downright oppressive Summer heat. The fact that the TV weather folks changed the way they determine "normal" temperatures several years ago (by averaging the temps of the last ten years only) makes it confusing for younger people who weren't familiar with the real Winters we had back in the '50's, '60's, and '70's.
It's not us TV weather folk who change the "normals"...the National Weather Service updates these every ten years using the past 30 years of data. So the "normals" you currently see on your local TV news should be the averages from the 1981 to 2010 time frame.
According to some scientists, we will be seeing some of the conditions we saw in the '50s. If they are right, Yikes!
Spring 2013 came but Winter still refuses to leave. Old man winter is just saying to us "It may be April, but I'm not done yet." Winter has definitely showed its existence.
We had 8 inches of snow where I live in Virginia. My sister from Florida flew in last Monday and she started off by saying "Seriously? There is STILL snow in Virginia?" Snow here in late March isn't that unusual, as you can imagine.. but the span area and how much snow fell was what made it historic. If it were February, then this would be normal. The stunning thing is comparing 2012 and 2013, these years are NOTHING alike!! I don't know whether its because 2013 is a cold year or 2012 spoiled us to where we expect it to be 70-80 degrees in March & April. We had 15" of snow in early March, so our winter total was impressive! More snow here than Philly, NYC and maybe even Chicago!
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