Spring is arriving early

• 2-3 weeks ahead of schedule, says USGS

 

Marione Martin

Spring is arriving early in Alva with trees and early flowers blossoming like this one on Aspen Street.

Get your flip-flops and shorts out because spring is arriving very early this year – at least two to three weeks early across almost the entire southeast, from San Antonio to Atlanta to Washington, D.C. This unusually early spring is likely to keep rolling north, already bringing surprising signs of spring to portions of the central Midwest and northeastern states.

Even Punxsutawaney Phil can't be blamed for being baffled this year and hightailing it back to his burrow. He predicted six more weeks of winter on Feb. 2, but by then spring was already springing well ahead of historical norms in m...



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