Flowers everywhere are our first indication that March is here, full of spring break volleyball, dancing leprechauns, and--don’t forget--spring storms!
As winter loosens its grip and the sun makes its warm way back across the equator, the clash of warm and cold air masses fire off those lightning-infused thunderstorms across Texas. Our spring equinox occurs this yearly a little early, on March 19th at 10:06pm! The American model shows a few storms the first half of the month which also takes us through spring break:
The timing will certainly change but you can see the showers marching across Texas and the deep South. While March averages 3″ of rain, we’ve had extremes of more than 7″ in our history.
Let’s get back to the warm part--this month’s temperatures average in the 70s for highs, although if you’ve paid attention you know we’ve already hit 86° last month on the 27th!
We’re already forecasting 80s for this weekend, by the way.
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Nonetheless, the Climatic Data Center predicts that when we get through all our March days, we’ll average around normal for temperatures this month and a bit above normal for rainfall.
Higher pollen counts always start this month, so just get ready for that, and higher worm counts, too! A softening ground, as the story goes, allows more worms to show up, thus our Full Moon this month is known as The Worm Moon:
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Whatever your plans for spring break, St. Patrick’s Day, or enjoying the bluebonnets on a stellar weekend, welcome to our third month of the year! And to a warming, March weekend! It’s Friday!
Frank
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