Dogwood Winter

It's supposed to rain again today. Actually, it was supposed to start after midnight. Okay, so it is after midnight now, but I kind of thought the forecaster meant "overnight", not "sometime during the day". Tomorrow, temperatures are supposed to be back in the 40's at night and 70's in the day, much more springlike than the 60's and 80's we had the past three days (two of which were near 90 and broke previous records).

Miss Kitty says this is called "Dogwood Winter", when there's a cold snap (sometimes back down to freezing) just after the dogwood trees bloom -- which happened this week. She says we should next expect "Blackberry Winter" and then "Strawberry Winter".

Um, okay, it just started pouring buckets, with thunder and lightning. So much for the inaccuracy of the forecasters.