Six Weeks to Go!

Cold, windy, and snow north of Middleton.
1/23/2022 dwm photo

Spring arrives March 20, roughly six weeks away... depending on your favorite groundhog, whether its Phil, Jimmy, Gordon, or an unsung varmint you are ready to endure six more weeks of winter or get excited that spring is only six weeks away.

My biggest clue to the coming of spring is the rapidly increasing daylight as the candles are burning longer on both ends.  

Just last evening it was daylight around here well past 5 pm; that's a welcome increase in vitamin D for folks shivering their timbers.

It remains to be seen if the next 45 days are gun-metal gray or sun-splashed, but one way or another we will find ourselves basking in longer days and noticing the sure signs of spring.

Located to our north, east, and south a lot of snow has fallen.  Other than five inches the last weekend of January, Dane and surrounding counties are missing most of what should be an average winter.  At some point during the coming weeks, invited by high school basketball tournaments, we may still get a blizzard or half a foot of heavy, wet snow.

You might join Jimmy the Groundhog in hoping his cloudy skies mean an early spring or stand with Punxsutawney Phil's less optimistic prognostication of six more weeks of winter are coming... either way in six weeks SPRING is COMING.