What the Hell Is “Reverse Spring”?
People who live in areas that experience all four seasons tend to have specific expectations about each of them—usually in line with the weather chart they filled out in elementary school. (Summer = sun, autumn = rolling leaf, winter = snowflake, and spring = umbrella or rain cloud.)
And while the weather still follows general patterns, thanks to climate change, it also does whatever it wants, when it wants. And according to the folks at the Farmers’ Almanac , we could expect unusual weather in the next few months thanks to a reverse spring.
What is a “reverse spring”?
Also known as “reverse spring”, “reverse spring” basically means that instead of a gradual increase in temperature throughout the season, it will become cooler in some areas. Let’s look at this year as an example.
Forecasters in the Farmer’s Almanac say that this year’s calendar and season may seem particularly out of sync. The first day of spring for people living in the Northern Hemisphere is March 20, 2022, but it may not seem like it. In addition to taking longer than usual to reach spring temperatures, it can be unseasonably cold in some parts of the country.
For the remainder of March, all of April and the first half of May, Farmers Almanac forecasters predict that the northern states of the country will experience “normal” spring temperatures (whatever that means now), while the southern states of the level remain off cool season. Not surprisingly, the almost always hot parts of the southwest will have their usual warm/hot spring.
But then – and here comes the downside – the mostly summer-like second half of May is forecast to bring cooler-than-usual temperatures to the rest of the country.
What about precipitation? The Farmer’s Almanac predicts that spring 2022 will be wetter than usual in the Great Lakes, Ohio Valley, Midwest and South Central states. At the same time, both the northeast and southwest will be especially dry.