Clark Spring (where have you gone?)

Awesome weather.

March 30th, 2012 – Jonas Clark, Red Square, Jefferson.

So we were super lucky to get about 10 days of awesome early spring weather.

Our normal spring weather.

I mean, some of the weather we got felt like early summer. But, living in New England we should have known it wasn't going to stick around forever.

Unfortunately, our glorious spring weather has disappeared and no traces of its existence have been seen since. Aside from the early budding and flower blooming (which has been slowed down considerably during this "cold snap"), one wouldn't have known about our nice early spring.

This week the weather should return to sunny weather with highs around the 50s which is much more tolerable. The sun has returned as seen in the above picture of Red Square, and that is always appreciated. But now that things are going to be getting really crazy work-wise on the Clark campus, I'm not so sure I'm going to be able to welcome the spring weather once it returns for good.

I've now tacked on a draft of a post I was supposed to post about two weeks after this original post:

In practicing for my upcoming presentations this month, I have simultaneous powerpoint presentations running to mimic an actual presentation where I have Presenter Tools running on my laptop and the "presentation screen" running on my desktop computer. I'm pretty silly/nerdy.

A panning shot of the first floor to the third floor of Lasry (the bio building) late at night.

Planning out some science (with my undergraduate students).

Downing Street will be soon turned into walking plaza (and is now closed to traffic), so a Clark student spray painted a sweet mural.

(The view from Wright Hall; Atwood Hall is in the background.)

While the weather has been kinda crappy recently in Worcester, we have had a few nice sunsets.

Oh, winter is here, okay, thought it wasn't coming

Ever since Worcester got slammed with snow and ice just before Halloween, 2011 was pretty mild. In fact, the month of November felt warmer than October, and by the time I went home at the end of the semester, we didn't have any snow in the 01610.

But about a week into the New Year, we finally got a few inches of snow.

A view of the JC (left) and the AC (right) from Atwood Hall.

And over the past few days, we got a couple inches of snow and ice in small increments.

A view of the AC on Sunday morning.

This snow follows a string of extremely cold days in Worcester, with temperatures in the single digits and teens.

So when I thought winter wasn't coming around this season, I was definitely wrong.

The Zen Garden looks like a mini snow bowl.

Campus is now covered in snow, but we're still well behind the amount of snow we got last year.

But I'm okay with that. Cars have already been struggling to make it up the lame excuse of a hill my road is on due to the snow and ice. I'm pretty sure one of these days a car is going to careen into another, because everyone seems to think it's a great idea to simply floor it when they lack traction on the ice.

While we may get a few warm days in this coming week, we may get two doses of freezing ran. That's something I really don't look forward to.

(Tuesday the 24th update: it rained last night and was in the upper 40's today. All of the snow not piled up is gone. Ha! New England weather!)