Melt My Heart Like . . .

You know the drill.

It snowed for awhile yesterday where I live, but then it got warmer and turned into a cold rain. The snowstorm forecast for my area for today isn't going to hit here after all, though it will affect Virginia, and after this my area gets just typical April showers.  

We're done with April snow this year.  But we may not be done with snowy Aprils.  Climate change is likely the reason the polar vortex has come so far south from the Arctic this past month and affected the weather in Canada and the northern United States for so long, and we have not only had recent examples of bitter cold - first in early 2014, then early 2015, and more recently this past Christmas - we're getting cold periods in April, sometimes brought about by violent weather, like the severe thunder-hailstorm that ended an unbelievably mild period in late March and early April 2016.  And even though last April wasn't particularly cold, it was a year ago yesterday that we got one of the most severe spring storms in the Northeast in recent memory, as it threatened to flood a good deal of New Jersey. 

Get used to more bitterly cold winters and to spring snowfalls in the Northeast, and get used to larger tropical storms anywhere hurricanes can hit - which now includes Ireland.

I'm thinking of sending Environmental Destruction Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt a one-way bus ticket home - not just for when he loses his job, but to remind him that we need alternatives to mass car use like public transportation (Amtrak doesn't go to Pruitt's home state of Oklahoma) and stop buying so many damn gas-guzzlin', carbon-spewin' SUVs.  And, bus fares are a whole lot cheaper than the first-class air travel Pruitt so obviously loves.

It's supposed to remain chilly for the next few days in the New York area.  Meanwhile, at the Masters golf tournament, it's expected to be comparatively mild this weekend, with temperatures reaching 64 degrees Fahrenheit.  Augusta, Georgia is just the place to be. ;-)