Dear Whoever-controls-the-weather...

[lemonrocket]

...it is not officially Winter until Saturday. Please be advised that we do not want to wake up to scenes like the one below until, say, August (and then only once, on a day where I don't have to try to get to work).

Comments

[syredronning]

Uh. Our May is too cold here too, but mostly rain (though there had been snow in the mountains, a rare thing).

Here's to both of us getting better weather!

[lemonrocket]

We've had a very wet May, too (rain nearly every day IIRC), but not any colder than we expected. We usually get only one or two snow days in my home city over a winter (July or August, most likely). May snow is rare. And definitely too soon!

I hope you get a nice summer. :-)

[startraveller]

That looks like all of April and most of May for us. We would have snow almost every Tuesday. And by Saturday we'd be in the high 70's, low 80's. Only to have it snow again the following Tuesday.

I'm not the biggest fan of snow already (I'm not native to where we live currently), and I reached a point where I would just open the door on Tuesday and scream at the sky: "WHAT THE HELL, WEATHER?? STOP WITH YOUR MOOD SWINGS ALREADY!"

:)

[lemonrocket]

Yeah, I think the weather's been really wonky everywhere. We had drought, then floods, now early snow. We don't usually get much urban snow in New Zealand - maybe a couple of days over a winter (and usually much later: July or August), so snow at the end of May seemed a bit... sudden.

I'm really not a winter-loving person. I don't like the shorter days (like getting up in the dark/cold... ugh), the frosty mornings (my car is parked on the road and gets covered in ice), the icy/snowy roads, the often very dreary/dull days, being cold, winter-related sickness... everything.

I seem to be more of a whiner in winter, too. ;-)