Well, I leave the blog for a few days and the next thing I know is that all the snow pictures I posted last week now look very much out of place. All signs of snowy weather around town are long gone by now.

Early last week a rather heavy winter jacket was mandatory, and by this past weekend shorts and short sleeves were more the norm around Roanoke. And I think I may have heard a lawnmower running in my neighborhood, but I can’t confirm nor deny such claim.

The heat of Saturday and Sunday really caught me off guard. I had seen the forecasts of temperatures near 80 but it didn’t really register in my mind. That is, until it actually reached 80. Then, I thought, this is hot!

Because of the unexpected rapid change in temperature over the past few days, I nearly broke down and turned on the A/C. But, by after dark in the evenings it started to cool off a bit.

I’m not a huge fan of the bitter cold, and likewise not of the heat, so hopefully we will have a good several weeks of the middle ground. We all know the middle ground, something like highs in the 60s and lows in the 40s. The kind of weather when I wear a light jacket to work in the morning, but by the afternoon I find myself carrying it instead.

And I actually don’t mind having to carry it in that instance.

In the meantime I’m still thinking about the crazy change in weather. That’s just the month of the March I suppose.

And that’s just Roanoke.