False spring happens nearly every year. Whether it be in February or mid-March we always have one week out of the winter here in Minnesota that warms up and lets you think that Spring just might be here. Before BAM! It snows again.
While this did not happen last year as the entirety of last winter was False Spring. If you can even call how warm it was last winter in Minnesota. It left more like the winters I experienced while I was living in the heart of the Ozarks.
When the coldest it gets it is in the mid to upper 30s and it rarely ever snows. I can recall winter days in the upper 40s. The kind of weather where Minnesotans would be walking around in a T shirt and I would watch everyone else still huddling in their coats saying it was cold. I would not be in a T shirt, but I would be in a jacket instead of a coat.
Yes, sometimes it would snow or worse it would ice. Trust me when I say ice is the worst . Take it from someone who’s lived through many proper Minnesota winters and southern ice storms. I will take Minnesota winter over an ice storm every single time.
This year has been more like winter than last year. Even though we have still lacked snow from winter’s past. However, it has been cold this year. Very, brutally cold. I think that I have spent most of this winter huddled in my parka just trying to stay warm. So for now at least I will welcome this false spring while it lasts and hope that we’re at else done with the sub zero weather.
My guess, as I write on an unseasonably warm February day in the low 50s, is that it will be followed by snow. Or at least the part of me that cares about the water levels and the grouse wants to think that it’ll snow more after this false spring. Either that or I’m completely wrong and this isn’t a False Spring. It’s simply the start of Spring.
