A starling rests in a frost covered ponderosa pine tree on the rims overlooking Billings recently. LARRY MAYER/Billings Gazette
Sometimes, I miss winter.
This winter, I’ve mostly missed winter.
So when I came across this photo, labeled “snow bird,” by Billings Gazette photographer Larry Mayer, I had to smile thinking of all those Montanans who go south for the winter to avoid the snow.
If only!
Then I came across an Associated Press story assuring me there’s still plenty of winter in the world.
That story told of the disappointment Tuesday at New Hampshire’s Mount Washington Observatory, which is no longer site of the fastest wind gust ever recorded on Earth.
“The concession came three days after the World Meteorological Organization said a panel of experts reviewing extreme weather and climate data turned up a 253 mph gust on Australia’s Barrow Island in 1996,” the AP reported.
And that tops the 231 mph record set atop Mount Washington in 1934.
Ah, winter!
Sherry Devlin
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