a series of short seasonal summaries: Part one.

Bad blogger! BAD!

doing this on the day of was kinda the whole idea, but hey, life happens.

March 16:

Had a cigarette outside in the morning, and the smoke seemed to sink very still-like into the surrounding air. It seemed to hover and track slowly away from me rather than quickly blowing off into the distance to be absorbed through the atmosphere's volume. I could see my breath, complete with all of it's individual water droplets when I stood perpendicular to the sun ray shining on my patio.

At around 10:30 am, the sky was approximately 80% cloud covered. I couldn't see the clouds moving rapidly as before, but there were some slow changes happening through the sky is you examined a section and then returned to it a few minutes later. The air was cool, with a breeze, and occasionally more robust gusts were blowing by. The open windows in the cloud cover showed beautiful pale blue skies; these tiny reminders of a possible spring time were appearing through altocirrus and cumulus clouds. The clouds throughout the horizon seemed to be sitting at mid to low levels.

1:00 on the North Shore, skies looked much the same, but a little darker and with a greater proportion of cumulus type clouds. The temperature seemed lower, and the occasional breezes were much sharper: they were blowing more quickly and at greater speeds. One of my classmates announced that it had just hailed very briefly on her way into class. The 'storm' happened suddenly, and ended just as quickly.

Leaving the North Shore, there was a huge open section of the sky primarily over the water. Stretches of altocirrus clouds fanned over this window and lower, very dense cumulus clouds were forming under that layer. The sun was more prevalent with this large section of open sky, but it was still pretty cold and breezy.

 Both of these photos were taken facing West at about 10 am.

The clouds formed to the North, 10am ish

Aaaand the final two are facing East. Wide variety!

Unfortunately (REALLY unfortunately) This has been the most active weather day on my journal, and it also happens to be the day where in I forgot to copy and paste a few surface maps from over the length of the day. Lame. So, I'm trying to pull together some other info that will better help me fully explain the variety of occurrences over the day.