Seasons???

When I was little, I used to hear my mom say that when she was little, her grandmother said that things would be very different when I was grown up.  She said that she wouldn’t be around to see it, but that someday, things might just be the opposite of what they are today.  I think my great grandma Stella was pretty smart because it certainly seems like those words are coming true!

She would say things like… “Someday, I won’t be around to see it, but someday the seasons will change.  What we now know as winter months, November – March, will have a temperature change.  Rather than being the cold months, they will turn warm.  And the months of May – August will be cold.”  Each year as the seasons change, the start and end times change just slightly. When my mom was young, she said that when she went Trick-or-Treating, the weather was much nicer than it is now.  You could wear your Halloween costume and run the neighborhoods without a coat.  Now it seems that each Halloween, you have to dress really warm or you freeze.  And the costumes that they sell seem to be more for the times my mom experienced rather than we I have.  My parents would bundle me up and you could never see my costume because it was always so cold outside.

I have even noticed it throughout my life. Winter has been starting later and lasting longer than the years before. Spring???  Where has our spring been?  This year especially…I think we are going to go directly from winter into HOT summer! There really hasn’t been much of a spring with the temperatures being 30+ degrees off the norm for this time of the year.   We have so far had a few nice days but mostly rainy and warm. Again…something my great grandmother said would happen. What do you think makes these changes happen? (374)

-Ardeeemilla(: