February is an ass

We should be on the downside of winter by the time February rolls around. It snowed for the first time a few months before and January brought ice and bitter cold. The days have been getting longer for a months and a half, so naturally it feels like it ought to be getting warmer.

Yet, February always seems to be colder and snowier and icier. The forecast calls for cold and wind and snow into the foreseeable future. I woke up this morning to three inches of bullshit on my car.

Not only does this mean time wasted shoveling off my car to run weekly errands, but it also means long minutes spent getting dressed for the cold. We’ve already been doing that for months. We should be slowly unwinding that, slowly peeling off the layers and relax into days with highs in the 40s.

Instead what we’ll get is another bullshit year that gives us two weeks of spring in between this weather and where we sweat sitting still.

February is an ass.