NEW ENGLAND has two seasons WINTER & SUMMER

I’m told I can’t complain about this past winter— we got probably 15-20 inches of snow total for the year— as per usual the first major snowstorm was the worst one— slushy mess with a good amount of water underneath. Makes for miserable shoveling. Unlike previous years the final snowstorm which hit April 10th was about 8” of fluffy stuff and it was gone the next day.

But in between the first sign of flakes on Nov 29th 2024 and that last snow on April 10th we had a relatively mild winter snowfall wise. We did have extreme cold— and with it a horrible ice storm that really crippled the area when area stores were caught short handed in terms of ice melt. It was later in the season— March maybe? Stores don’t want to be stuck with pallets of rock salt so they tend to cut back.

We used to have Spring and Fall but lately we go from 34 degrees to 86 degrees and vice versa— so Winter into Summer and then Summer into Winter. After two days of extremely warm weather at the end of April we woke up Saturday to a nice cool 53 degrees with a lot of rain which is much needed, only thing was the humidity was 96%— that’s the tropics.
I’ll never understand anyone other than a baby spider liking humidity. Is it the uncomfortable sweating? The need to shower 3x in a day? the idea of being able to watch the air move as you pass your hand in front of your face?

Like most every one else, I like comfortable weather— and 90 degrees can be comfortable if there’s a breeze and the humidity is low, but as I sat at a polo match last year on one of the warmest and most humid days of late Summer I marveled at the folks who were able to maintain their blazers and collared shirts and not look like the were melting in the afternoon sun.