Yes Virginia, It Really Does Snow Here (Occasionally)

Two weekends ago, it was 70 degrees and sunny with not a cloud in the sky. It was a great weekend to be out and about on the town. This last weekend we had 5 inches of snow on the ground on Saturday. As rare as snow is here, it was still a great time to be in Memphis. The snow was a wet heavy snow. It was great for sledding and building snowmen and snow forts. It was the perfect snow to make snowballs and start a fight.

Many think of Memphis as being flat. We're relaly not flat. There are some great sledding hills. The Sunday, March 9, Commercial Appeal, had a great picture of a sled hill in Bartlett. The bluffs downtown are great sled hills. The 8th hole at Audubon actually has some great sled hills. To put it mildly, Saturday was a kid's (and some big kids') dream day.

The best part about the snow was that it melted off the street pretty quickly. You could get anywhere you wanted to go and yet it was fun to play in. Even better yet, by Sunday it was in the low 50s and sunny and most of the snow was already gone. We do get snow here (on a rare occasion) but when we get it it, it's here and gone. We don't have to put up with the black and brown snow slush that the northeast has for most of March. We get a little blast of snow (just enough to have fun with) and then we're right back to spring and warm weather!