{"id":118,"date":"2007-04-20T19:40:23","date_gmt":"2007-04-21T02:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=118"},"modified":"2007-04-20T19:40:23","modified_gmt":"2007-04-21T02:40:23","slug":"spring-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"Spring #4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I understand the difference between weather and climate.  But if one of the characteristics of this period of climate change we&#8217;re in is erratic weather, I think this past winter qualifies.<\/p>\n<p>Our first spring came the first week of January.  After winter-like weather (at least by Austin standards) in December, 5 of the first 6 days of January had highs of 50 F or above.<\/p>\n<p>Only 4 days in February got above freezing.  March 6 to 9 was close to the coldest 4-day stretch of the winter, with lows of -6, 1, 1, and -2.  Four days later:  Spring #2 with a 4-day stretch in the 50s and 60s.<\/p>\n<p>Following another week of cold weather with lows getting down to 3 on the 21st, Spring #3 with a lot of 50s and 60s the end of March and the beginning of April.  Since April 5, it&#8217;s been mostly in the 30s for highs, leading up to our big Nor&#8217;easter April 15-16.<\/p>\n<p>But it hit 60 Thursday and Friday and the forecast is 60s and maybe even 70s for the next week.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s officially spring.<\/p>\n<p><img ALT=\"verbascum, ephemerals and spilled hypertufa\" SRC=\"images\/4thspring.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I understand the difference between weather and climate. But if one of the characteristics of this period of climate change we&#8217;re in is erratic weather, I think this past winter qualifies. Our first spring came the first week of January. After winter-like weather (at least by Austin standards) in December, 5 of the first 6 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=118\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spring #4&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}