Sometime soon after my arrival in DC in 1994, I was talking to an old black man sitting on a porch about the snow. He said it will keep snowing until February and there will be snow on the ground until March. Since then every year I would look to see if there is indeed snow on the ground in March. Last several years due to global warming the winters have been getting milder and milder. Sometimes we don’t get much snow at all, not to mention in March. This year due to the altered climate patterns we have had an exceptionally cold winter with regular snowfalls while other parts of the world have been warmer than usual. And man do we still have snow on the ground! It is getting to be late March and it is still snowing. In fact it has been snowing all day today! The snow from last Monday’s storm has still not completely melted away.
All this seems to be interfering with the blooming of flowers in the spring.
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