Vernal Equinox & Spring 2016!

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This one could sneak up on us since it is the earliest start of Spring in the northern hemisphere since 1896. It our neck of the West Spring begins at 9:20 PM Saturday 19 March. Here's a link to a little reading I did this morning -

Everything You Need to Know: Vernal Equinox 2016

Here's what it looks like here. Our peach trees are asking please warm up enough to wake some pollinators!


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Plan your celebrations and get the dust off your shorts and flip flops or dream of harvesting some spring corn!
 
Yep. Our poppies are popping, blue berries are blooming and the lime tree is flowering. About time to rip up the Fall garden and do some Spring planting!
 
Plants have been going crazy here (Monterey Ca.),for sometime.
The coast oaks started to flower back in Jan. with more flowering each day.
Lots of nice flowers around the garden.Some we haven't seen for years.
Nice to have all this rain and warm weather.
Frank

PS thanks Ski for the link.Interesting.
 
Casa Escarlata Robles Too said:
Plants have been going crazy here (Monterey Ca.),for sometime.
The coast oaks started to flower back in Jan. with more flowering each day.
Lots of nice flowers around the garden.Some we haven't seen for years.
Nice to have all this rain and warm weather.
Frank

PS thanks Ski for the link.Interesting.
Click to expand...
Yep, Poppies & Lupines are just getting ready explode real soon.
 
Saw the first Robin here today and heard the raucous calls of Stellar Jays. They're back and it's going to start getting noisy here, but I figure there'll be a few more storms that will force them down the hill until it warms up for good.
 
It will be a few weeks here until we start to see flowers. Having snow flurries today. But the buds on the trees are swelling- won't be long.
 
And now it's officially here -- that day when there are equal noxes all over the world -- pole to pole!
:)
 
Yep Alley-Kat, the spring flowers, plants and trees were starting to bloom and allergies were here again, and I was sunning myself on the deck with beer in hand, and it was way above normal, almost hot and in the 60's. Today, it's raining and on Monday it will be 10-20 degrees below normal with a 70% chance of snow--lucky i never put my snow shoes away :p !

Smoke
 
Today was the first day in 2016 to top 70°F in Bend -- hit about 73.

Is this spring? Well, it's felt like it for a couple of days -- yesterday I left the house wearing sandals. :D
But a week ago the high temperature was 45° and Monday's forecast is for 54° -- that's spring in Central Oregon. :rolleyes:
 
Everything is so green out there :eek: ! More rain and a chance of snow later this week :cautious: ! Why it's like Spring like- bright and clear and -yep-how Spring is supposed to be :D!

Smoke
 
That is a classic low pressure spiral! Our last storm system came up from the south and moved over the Great Basin. We got waves of storm wrapping around from the east with high snow levels. Let's see what this one brings!
 
Here's what they are predicting the big wind up pictured above will do here -


Winter Weather Advisory
Code: 
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SACRAMENTO CA
316 PM PDT WED APR 13 2016

...LATE SEASON SNOW OVER THE SIERRA NEVADA TONIGHT INTO
THURSDAY MORNING...

.A FAST MOVING WEATHER SYSTEM WILL BRING LATE SEASON SNOW AND
GUSTY WINDS TO THE SIERRA NEVADA LATER TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY
MORNING. THE HEAVIEST SNOW IS EXPECTED TO OCCUR FROM AROUND
MIDNIGHT AND THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING. SNOW SHOWERS WITH
GENERALLY MINOR ADDITIONAL ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED THURSDAY
AFTERNOON.

CAZ068-069-141900-
/O.NEW.KSTO.WW.Y.0016.160414T0600Z-160414T1900Z/
WESTERN PLUMAS COUNTY/LASSEN PARK-
WEST SLOPE NORTHERN SIERRA NEVADA-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHESTER...QUINCY...BLUE CANYON
316 PM PDT WED APR 13 2016

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO
NOON PDT THURSDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SACRAMENTO HAS ISSUED A WINTER
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW AND GUSTY WINDS...WHICH IS IN EFFECT
FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO NOON PDT THURSDAY.

* MAIN IMPACT...SLICK ROADS...POSSIBLE TRAVEL DELAYS AND CHAIN
  CONTROLS.

* TIMING...SNOW BEGINNING AROUND MIDNIGHT AND CONTINUING INTO
  THURSDAY MORNING. HEAVIEST SNOW LATE TONIGHT...TAPERING TO LIGHT
  SNOW SHOWERS THURSDAY AFTERNOON.

* LOCATIONS...INTERSTATE 80...HIGHWAY 50...HIGHWAY 36

* SNOW ACCUMULATIONS...4 TO 8 INCHES OVER WESTERN PLUMAS
  COUNTY...3 TO 5 INCHES ALONG THE INTERSTATE 80 AND HIGHWAY 50
  CORRIDOR. 1 TO 2 INCHES DOWN TO AROUND 5000 FEET.

* OTHER IMPACTS...SNOW LEVELS 6000 TO 7000 FEET LOWERING TO 4000
  TO 4500 FEET EARLY THURSDAY MORNING. WIND GUSTS 40 TO 50 MPH
  OVER HIGHER TERRAIN.
 
We got a little snow out of this in Bend!
At least...that's what an early-riser Bend friend reported on FB. I slept in today and only heard dripping in my downspouts and saw only wet when I looked outside.
I snooze, I lose, I guess. ;)
 
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