April Showers Bring May ... Snow

Maybe a polar vortex in May?  Definitive!  And with it, snow.

Snow, you say?  Yes, that’s right!  Actual, visible snow - caught on film (well, digital recording).

So the week opened on Sunday peaking at 80 degrees, and today it snowed.  I cannot recall a time it hit 80 degrees, and on a subsequent day, closer to summer, snow fell.  As it happens, this morning the building staff came in to change the filters for all the air handling units - in preparation for the switch from heat to air conditioning!  Mild concern that it should snow when I am a stone’s throw from having only cold air as an option if I turn on my units.

(The lead up to the filter change has been fraught.  Isolation has not helped the housekeeping situation one bit.  Nor has the work schedule, encroaching into my off days and beset with pressure to maintain billables at 100 percent, lest I not be protected from the looming threat of layoffs, done any favors for the housekeeping routine.  So there was some speed tidying this morning.  And then the staff had the audacity to show up nearly an hour early!  Luckily, the main tasks were done.)

Mother Nature is wacky this year.  Or she’s just fed up and reminding us who’s really in charge.  And it is not the pesky human beings.  Good for Mother Nature - offsetting some of our warming.  Of course, it’s but a single day’s data point.  But, preceding Mother’s Day, an assertion of which Mother rules the roost.  A bit of May mayhem.