Spring has sprung...er...a leak

Cliff Mass's blog has a bit on this sucky spring, showing that it is by far the worst on record (only 5...that is right, one for each finger..days above 55). Notice his mention of 1992 as being the year with the most days above 55 (with appropriately 55).
Not coincidentally I remember 92 as being by far the best corn year.

cliffmass.blogspot.com/

It's interesting but the old ski videos from the 30's and 40's Lowell dug up show very nice spring skiing, the kind I can scarcely even remember...

From the NWS today:

THINGS BEGIN TO CHANGE TONIGHT AS A COLD UPPER TROUGH APPROACHING THE N TIP OF VANCOUVER ISLAND THIS MORNING MOVES SWD INTO WRN WA LATER TONIGHT AND THURSDAY MORNING. LATEST MODELS HAVE TRENDED A BIT COLDER INDICATING H850 TEMPS FALLING TO ROUGHLY -6C...H925 TEMPS DOWN BELOW -2C...AND 1000-850MB THICKNESS VALUES NEAR 1290M. NORMALLY A COLD AND SHOWERY UPPER TROUGH THIS LATE IN THE YEAR WOULD PRODUCE JUST RAIN SHOWERS BELOW 1K FT. HOWEVER...MODELS INDICATE A FAVORABLE CONVERGENCE ZONE PATTERN TO DEVELOP LATE TONIGHT/EARLY THURSDAY MORNING AS THE UPPER LOW TRACK ACROSS WRN WA AND INTO ERN WA BY MIDDAY. THE NAM-12 IS THE MOST BULLISH WITH THE CONVERGENCE ZONE DEPICTED TO START OUT AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT ACROSS ADMIRALTY INLET-WRN SNOHOMISH COUNTY...AND SINK SWD INTO WRN KING COUNTY EARLY THURSDAY MORNING. WITH A FOCUSED PRECIP BAND...IT IS NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION WE COULD SEE SOME MIXED RAIN/SNOW OR EVEN JUST WET SNOW DOWN VERY CLOSE TO SEA-LEVEL.

Although this is certainly not unheard of, it is getting pretty late...