Sunday, March 8, 2026

Spring Forward

So now the sun sets at 7 pm, thanks to our clocks springing forward this morning.  Which should mean the start of nicer weather.  Nope.  Today was a rainy, miserable day - one of many coming up over the next few weeks.  And the day was made worse by losing power this afternoon.  There was no indication that this was coming, but something knocked out the power for my entire neighborhood for a few hours.  Maybe a convergence zone formed?  That is when westerly winds that are split by the Olympic peninsula converge and cause intense localized weather conditions.  There was definitely a brief period of quite windy weather during the outage.  Maybe that was enough to knock some trees down and take out the power?  Either way, the power cut has had one positive effect in that my TV signal seems to be a bit better now.  Let's see how long that lasts...!   

Oh yes, and a happy International Women's Day.