<p>I just checked the temperature outside. It’s a whopping 10 degrees. I am so done with looking at snow.</p>
<p>Who has spring starting? Any flowering bulbs? Lovely bushes and trees? Green grass? Please give me hope.</p>
<p>(I don’t mean to scare away anyone looking at MN colleges - it has been a great winter for nordic skiing, sledding, and skating.)</p>
<p>Now you know why I live in San Diego.</p>
<p>Wait, forget I said that! San Diego is a terrible place! You don’t want to move here. Nobody should move to San Diego.</p>
<p>[sarcasm]We suffer from Global WARMING. That’s why our temperatures are so LOW… 
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<p>We have daffodils blooming in our DC suburb yard, and yesterday on my way to work, I saw that ornamental flowering fruit trees had bloomed in one person’s yard. The Bradford pear trees that line the streets in my community have buds on them, and snowdrops and crocuses have been blooming for weeks now. Our grass, such as it is, is now starting to contrast nicely with the ground it had been matching and not quite covering up.</p>
<p>To go along with all of this, the pollen counts made a steep climb earlier this week when the temperature was in the high 50s and into the 60s, so my son took a Claritin last night and still awoke with a horribly sore throat; he’s drinking hot tea – does this only when he feels bad – and not talking.</p>
<p>Yup. We love spring 'round here. It’s the reaction to pollen that we could do without.</p>
<p>Pass the tissues, please.</p>
<p>I hear you. Spring arrived this week and we are in the 70s!</p>
<p>Haha. Pollen. Some people are never happy.</p>
<p>twomules, I can sympathize. Here in the Ohio Valley we’re shoveling out from 10-12 inches of snow. It’s still falling, undoing all our hard work. I checked some facts online–H and I may have moved a literal ton of snow. Apiece.</p>
<p>But it was warm last weekend and we believe spring is just around the corner. :)</p>
<p>It was in the 40’s and 50’s in our neck of the woods this past week (finally). Here in southern NH the near-record snowfall is finally starting to melt–we can see the ground in the woods, squirrels and birds are out and about. The open area around our house still has about a foot of snow–I’ll give that about one more week. And the 6-foot high, huge (15-feet long x 20 feet wide) pile of snow at the end of our driveway looks like it will be here well into April.</p>
<p>Here is E PA - my crocuses are up. One bloomed. Daffodils are just now peeking through - we have had only 1 “warm” (no coat) day.
Nice to see spring has hit DC - perhaps it is just around the corner.</p>
<p>I am glad not to be living in New England anymore - my #2 kiddo turns 21 on Monday - the night she was born the temp was 0 degrees!<br>
Twomules - I empathize!</p>
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<p>Some people are fond of breathing! :D</p>
<p>owlice: Thanks - that painted a lovely picture in my mind. Next time I go to the grocery store I think I’ll pick up some daffs.
My rose colored glasses about spring screened out the pollen issue. It can be so bad when everything bursts into bloom at the same time!
Mommusic: 2 tons of snow. Holy cow. Your backs must be killing you.
Justamom: No coat day for us is when it hits 25!</p>
<p>We’ll think of you folks in DC when it is 103 and the humidity is over 90%. :)</p>
<p>At the Jersey Shore, it is stormy and 40ish, but the crocuses bloomed at the end of February, lots of bulbs are up, but not blooming yet and the ■■■■■ willow is out. The flowers think it is spring, but spring here can be nasty all the way to Memorial Day, cold, wet and windy, because that ocean is COLD We have been in winter coats and hats for the Memorial Day Celebration, and then the tourists show up and want to go to the beach??</p>
<p>It’s in the mid 70s here and felt plenty warm while I was out back planting trees.</p>
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<p>Not in DC, but that’s the weather I love the best!! 
Humidity is bad, but the temps not too bad ;)</p>
<p>ucsd<em>ucla</em>dad-
your post reminded me of an e-mail we received a few years ago from a relocated SPAWARS (DC to SD) friend while we were in the midst of blizzard conditions.
He was complaining of storm damage and sent a photo of a wet deck and overturned beach chair ;)</p>
<p>Here in NC, my daffodils are in full bloom, crocuses are up, strawberry plants has tiny blooms, gound cover blooming pink flowers and some ornamental trees are blooming. My columbines,lillies and sedum have been coming up for a couple of weeks now. Saw some neighbors mowing their grass this week. </p>
<p>We have had several days in the 70’s lately (kids seen wearing shorts/flipflops) and lots of days in the 60’s. We’ll prob. have another cold snap in March. We usually do. By that I mean days in the 50’s. I guess “cold snap” is a relative term,lol.</p>
<p>it’s blizzarding in Ohio. Sigh.</p>
<p>It’s finally sunny and nice here in CA. I have freesia, daffodils, irises, stocks(still cold for this).</p>
<p>In my state, we don’t have spring. We have 9-10 months of winter and 2-3 months of summer/fall.</p>
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Yes - it’s funny. A couple of weeks ago it rained and the news was going on about “Storm Coverage - news at 11”, etc. I think we ended up having about 2/10 of an inch of rain. People from places with real weather just laugh and shake their heads.</p>