environment: April 2009

When Seattle hands you a dry weekend in April, you don't look the proverbial gift horse in the mouth -- i.e., you don't quibble about high clouds filtering the sunshine. So on a milky-hued Sunday that promised to head near 70 degrees, I set out to test my conditioning. I went for the steepest hike I know: Mailbox Peak.

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Apparently the joke is on us.
April Fools all of us, we watched the wet snow fall today in Seattle. And now we have the numbers to support our winter of discontent.
It turns out this was the coldest March in Seattle since 1976, and the seventh coldest on record.
Even more amazingly, the average high temperature here in March was a half-degree colder than in February. In effect, we had two straight months of February.
So...

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