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Spring Arrives with Snow Squall Surprise
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Spring officially started on Tuesday, March 19. But just the next day, students trudged through the heavy snowfall that defines a Big Red winter.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/weather/)
Spring officially started on Tuesday, March 19. But just the next day, students trudged through the heavy snowfall that defines a Big Red winter.
Smoke from Canada’s over 400 actively burning wildfires has drifted to the Northeast United States —including Tompkins County — sparking public health concerns.
Warmth: The feeling all Cornellians long anticipate after the dreadfully cold and dull winters of Ithaca. Arguably, the sensation of warmth is the most rewarding of all. A haze of happiness and stress-freeness consumes me the moment the weather becomes warm once again — it’s like all of my problems from the winter melt away.
It can become unbelievably hard to get any work done in the warmth when it feels like life is finally being unpaused. The warm weather, I can assure you, does not help with my reliance on coffee, either. The intense urge to find the nearest eatery on campus and buy an iced coffee on a warm day in Ithaca is the strongest temptation to resist, a close second being the impulse to grab a picnic blanket and sunbathe with friends on the slope. In times like these when it can be twice as hard to find productivity and get shit done, we have to hold ourselves accountable.
Cornell has announced that due to an expected snowfall of between nine and 18 inches, the Ithaca and AgriTech campuses will be closed on Tuesday.
Freshmen from warm climates year-round prepare for their first Ithaca winter, swapping hoodies for heavy jackets and snow boots.
The only predictable thing about Ithaca’s weather seems to be its unpredictability. However, according to Cornell professors, there is not one exact reason behind these fluctuations. In fact, the weather patterns of the Northeast are caused by an amalgamation of factors that often result in an April week beginning with warm sunshine and ending in a snowstorm.
While local experts say the recent area heat advisories aren’t out of the ordinary for Ithaca summers, hotter days and nights are becoming more frequent because of climate change.
Following heavy rains and wind gusts, Stewart Park and Newman Municipal Golf Course remain closed.
After a winter storm warning was issued by Tompkins County Monday, Cornellians prepare for snow and sleet.
Cornell announced the second snow day of the academic year — after some had already made it up the slope, arrived on central campus and sat through their first classes of the day.