Crazy Weather

Mother Nature is definitely playing games with us. This past Friday, 2/18, the weather was absolutely beautiful! It was 64 degrees outside (Fahrenheit, that is) and the majority of the enormous amount of snow, that has been accumulating in gigantic piles around campus, began to melt. I was finally able to see the ground of the tennis courts and the outside tables by Sandella's were finally free of snow and dry enough for people to sit on them and enjoy lunch.There was definitely a feeling of hope, among many students, that spring would be here soon. However, by Sunday the temperature dropped about thirty degrees and there was a sever wind advisory for Sunday and Monday and by Monday morning there was more snow on the ground. This crazy spike and drop in temperature is not as uncommon as it seems. Here is a graph from http://www.weather.com/ that shows the totals of bother temperature and precipitation for the month of February so far. As you can see, we have not come close to the record high, or low, temperature as well as precipitation. There are only six days left in the month, but you never know, we still have some time to break one of the records, (hopefully we don't!)