OUR DAY
"March Winds and April Showers Bring Forth
May Flowers.” This is a familiar quotation which
most of us remember from childhood; and it has
held true ever since the "Old Timers” of this
section can remember. But eventially there is
a change in everything—even a woman’s mind.
There is another quotation which is also fami
liar to all of us, "Every Dog Has His Day.” Al
though we are not in the canine class we have
certainly had our day. Winter after Winter we
have been sitting by our firesides, watching the
snowflakes fall, reading the Chamber of Com
merce bulletins of the vacation lands of the
middle and far West. This year there has been
a change. While Californians were building fires
in their orchards to try to save their fruit, and
middle Westerners were buried under many feet
of snow, and the air-lift was dropping feed to
starved cattle, we were picking strawberries and
enjoying our May flowers in January and Feb
ruary and Lehman Kapp has been very uncom
fortable in his shirt sleeves.
The maximum temperature for January and
February averaged more than 50 degrees and the
minimum was well above freezing. On the I6th
of January the temperature only changed one
degree in 24 hours. Below is a record of the
maximum and minimum temperatures for Jan
uary and February since 1940:
HIGH LOW
1949 74 “ 17"
1948 74°*
1947 72°* 3°
1946 55“* 10“
1945 72°* 8°
1944 76°*
1943 72°* r
1942 68°* -1°
1941 65*° 10°
1940 59°* 45°
* These maximums were for one day only dur
ing the two months.
Scientists in the United States have been trying
to explain this unusual turn-about in our weath
er, and have come up with some pretty logical
theories. But whatever the reason there is cer
tainly no complaint from the South.
Some of our flowers that have bloomed since
Christmas. The area around the pool (near the
Cafeteria) gave the appearance of Mid-Summer,
while on several occasions the pool tvas covered
with ice—the flowers still bloomed. Most all
flowers were several months ahead of schedule
this year.