cold snap

I know we have already had dogwood winter. It was a cold snap, but the beauty of the dogwood blossoms made it more than worthwhile. Then it was cool again when the locust trees were first in full bloom. Now the blackberry bushes are blooming. There should be plenty of blackberries this summer...

Ice had formed on my windows this morning as I drowsily slumped into the front seat of my vehicle. The cold snap overnight had caught me by surprise and without a coat. I had also managed to forget to grab a frozen lunch on my way out the door, but those stairs are even more [...]

A dogwood tree (top picture) and a locust tree (bottom picture) both in full bloom in Wilson County.
Last cold snap we had redbuds and dogwoods blooming at the same time. Well, the dogwoods are still blooming and the locust trees have joined them. Take your pick!
Now frost chances:
This morning, winds calmed down [...]

For the past three days we, here in Nashville, have been experiencing near freezing temperatures in the mornings, with highs in the 40s. It happens like this almost every year. We have a warming trend, and it becomes too much to carry around my big jacket that kept me warm during the winter, and so I ditch the jacket. Then we have another cold snap and I end up running around town in t-shirts.

Last Easter Sunday much of the United States suffered a record breaking severe cold snap.  When a number of us joked about how cold weather seemed to follow Al Gore wherever he went, many of his global warming adherents chastised us for confusing climate with weather.

I wonder if those same people will now take Democrat John Kerry to task for doing the

I noticed the headline "China battles 'coldest winter in 100 years'" on Yahoo! news, and thought I'd open it up and find the inevitable global warming attribution. Sure enough, paragraph 9 reads "He added the cold snap had caught the country off guard, in an area unprepared for such heavy snow. But climate change could see more extremes in weather in China, Zheng warned."

So much for all the hoopla about a melting Greenland. The Copenhagen Post reports that "a brutal cold snap is raging across the semi-autonomous nation of Greenland."

On Disko Bay in western Greenland, where a number of prominent world leaders have visited in recent years to get a first-hand impression of climate change, temperatures have dropped so drastically that the water has frozen over for the first time in a decade.<

The big news here on the street is of course the wickedly cold temperatures Nashvillians have been enduring, especially those who are homeless.