I know! WTF? glad I've been putting off storing the winter clothes.

hah. here in chestnut hill (philadelphia) it snowed for a while then pea sized hail! looking out my kitchen window a spider happily spinning his first springtime web was watching in confusion as the hail stuck dramatically to the strands of the web. he seemed to take it in and then just went right on spinning. i imagine he may be on the 'eight step cure'.

or in like a lamb out like a lion.
whichever it comes in as it isn't supposed to go out as... er...

the one morning I didn't obsessively check the weather and i'm wearing a light jacket. argh. but yay for weirdness?

C'est magnifique!

i thought the snow was reserved only for upstate in april. and lo - behold here it is

ain't this some bullshit. snowing like crazy in brooklyn right now too.

-Kellen-

Yes, that's what's March should do--especially when it's April... Is that why the contest hasn't been narrowed down yet--because it's March downtown? :)

blooming flowers and trees dusted with snow. surreal.

dont ya know... april snow showers bring may flowers

And to think folks were looking at me funny this morning on the bus and train as I wore my long parka - It's supposed to end by noon and then turn sunny.....we'll see......

boooooo!

yeah for weirdness indeed

I think it must be 2007 now, since we had spring, summer, AND winter in the last 4 hours.
and that part where the sky went orange just before the snow . . . isn't that what happens during tornados?

That's a beautiful picture, is that from this morning? I love the colors. Get rid of that thing in the lower right corner and take another picture. Quick! I'd hang it on my walls.

if i had my digicam with me, i'd take a picture of the snow on the ocean here in brooklyn, and send it in. beautiful!

There was snow on the roof of the D.I.A. here in Detroit this morning and it made me piss my pants, but just a little.

Re: spring, summer, and winter in the last four hours... I've read somewhere that this is "the new normal," and we better get used to it!

There is a Russian children book, 12 MONTHS, (where is *olga, to confirm?)where the premise is a New Year Eve in the woods, where all 12 months/brothers are coming together to sit around the big fire and to report to their older brother, January, and while each speaks his month's weather comes to the forest. So during one night you have 4 seasons materialized, from crocuses to red maple leaves, biting snow squalls to August languor.

It fills very similar today.

someone just pointed to me that 12345
was this morning
at 1:23 am
4/5/06

my friend had a baby this morning (yeah!)
and two people's dads died
what's going on out there??

Guido, from my childhood in Minnesota I recall the the sky gets a sickly green/yellow before tornadoes.

As for today's snow, I recall my parents telling about an Easter blizzard way back when which prevented most of the family from reaching my uncle's wedding. Not sure what date Easter fell that year.

well, i'm from buffalo, and snow on easter was a given!

*jimkk, if I remember the year correctly, 10 or 11 yrs ago there was a snow in June in NY. I have this mental picture of standing at the window to street (I worked on Trinity Place then) and watch white flurries turning dense on a background of Trinity Church and greenery spilling off the cemetery wall.

"12 mesiatsev"?

Hey Tat,

Were you working for the American Stock Exchange at that time. If you were on Trinity Place and had a view of Trinity Church, then I assume you were probably an Amex Employee.

Tat, confirming "12 months" Russian story :-)

By the way, a couple of years ago we were in Moscow on the 12th of May and it snowed like crazy over the blooming chestnut trees. it was wild!

(emergency meeting of slavic mystics on aisle snow)

;.. )

*pphillipp: very good!

Jermaine - no, I wasin the next building (Trinity Rectory) and I had never worked in finance.

*zhenya - thank you. Great site!

sorry, this is going off topic - a bit - but does tat know anything about a story called "sedmoi lepestok"?

if it makes you all feel any better, i think it's been raining here in SF for 27 days straight...

pphillipp, I think so. There's one that's called "tsvetic-semitsvetic" ( basically "the flower with seven petals") It's about a little girl named Zhenya, who found a flower that made her wishes come true. She used six petals on nonsence and finally cured a crippled boy with the seventh petal ( sedmoi lepestok)
Well, at least this is the one I know. There's also a movie ( 1960)

It's snowing in Boston too! Insane!

I'm right next door to St. Patrick's Cathedral and I do believe it has officially stopped snowing! For now....

Omigawd, ali, I see sunshine! And a blue sky! I feel like I should dance naked in the street or something, except that's sooooo overdone out here.

zhenia - bol'shoe spasibo. i was curious, because there's a tune by hi-fi called "sedmoi lepestok," and someone said he *thought* it might be from a russian skazka.

OK, no more off topic talk!

Лети-лети лепесток, через Запад на Восток....

"fly, fly petal, through the west, to the east..."

(close enough?)

Perfect! :-)
It is not a fairy tale, though. it's a story by Kataev.

On a general note: It's sunny in Park Slope and snow is completely gone...

Excellent, pphillipp.
It's the incantation verse the girl in the fairy tale chanted every time she tore the next petal...

pphillipp, whence such knowledge of Russian? Pray tell.

i lived there. "ostorozhno, dveri zakrivaiutsia..."

Oh, and you survived? I like you even more now. :D

[aside]hmmm... I survived it too but *bubbles hates me...or is it just my "cultural DNA" that you hate,*bubbles?

that was a rhetorical question.

Carry on.

No, Tat, it's not your "cultural DNA" that I hate, it's the posturing that some people do with it that I hate. Believe it or not, I survived it too, but like you, I had no choice. Should we say "мир" for now?

c'mon, kiss an make up. bubbles loves all mankind.

wende, ha! so true!!!

I said it was a rhetorical question.

But since you choose to answer it-I have another:
would you say a doctor is "posturing" when he critiques another medic's prescriptions?

You can choose to treat this one as a rhetorical, too.