CHC days start out around 30 degrees, and then warm up to about 65 or 70 by 10 o'clock am. It continues to be this warm until about 6:15 pm at which time the temperature automatically drops to around 20 degrees.
MFWs are only slightly more annoying. MFWs are those weeks when you have around three warm days in a row immediately preceding two or three days of below freezing temperatures. These weeks are the worst because they trick one into thinking that the weather has turned human again and one can finally begin to look outside, see the sun, and assume it will be nice. But instead, one looks out the window on day four, sees the sun, and walks outside in shorts, a t-shirt, with a good book, only to find that although the sun is shinning proclaiming a wonderful day, the air has decided to rebel and fall below human temperatures.
You can probably imagine what our roads look like at Camp during Springter. Snow falls, accumulates, freezes (which is fine), then begins to melt (also fine). However, the snow never really gets the chance to completely melt because of CHCs and MFWs. These wonderful events come along and all that melted snow becomes ice. Ice. Ice. Lots and lots of ice. Our driveway could have served as an ice skating rink for quite a while. Those warm days would come, melt the ice. Then freeze again. Ice. Lots. Of. Ice.
Driving on these roads is almost as much fun as the weather is annoying! I have a Buick. Let's just say - not the best ice-slash-snow-slash-mush-slash-mud car. I have more mud on my car than I have ever seen on a vehicle in my life. Well...I did until I dished out the bucks to get it cleaned during one of those MFWs.
I would like to say something. This is what I wanted to tell you from the beginning. I love Summer.
Springter! Yes! This is an awesome post. And I couldn't agree more. You are great Carey.
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