It hit 60 degrees in New York today, March 2. I guess our one month of winter is over. In December I was thinking about buying a new winter coat, something dressy for when my utilitarian peacoat wasn’t appropriate, and then I figured: Why bother? I’m not gonna need it. And I haven’t. On Christmas Eve I went out to a fairly fancy restaurant with my family, and it was too warm to wear the nice new sweater I’d just bought. That’s not normal for NYC. And then we had a ridiculously warm January, followed by a cold and snowy February, and now March is coming in like a lamb.
Meanwhile, in Alabama:
