Yesterday was the spring equinox, which occurs when the plane of the equator passed the center of the Sun. The day was as long as the night, as the Earth’s axis leans toward the sun. It had been a long winter in northern New York and at one point in the winter International Falls, Minnesota had been colder than the surface of Mars.
This morning the thermometer at the Fort Greene Observatory hit 48F at noon.
The sky was clear and sunny.
Winter might be coming to an end along the Eastern Seaboard, but Quebec remained faithful to ice and snow north of the St. Lawrence. No roads or pipelines marred the eternal permafrost waiting to thaw for the short Arctic summer.
And then everything will belong to the mosquitoes.
They are fierce vampires, which was why no one white lives up there.
Our blood was too sweet.
Of course global change denialists see this snow and say, “So there isn’t any global warming.”
Then again they are as stupid as a cow tied to a post.
They are that dumb.