Finally, spring has arrived!

After an incredibly long winter, it would seem that spring has finally come to the High Country of North Carolina. The last 6 months have been cold, windy, harsh, and some say even bitter. We had little or no snow to speak of, however, the temperatures never really made it above the 40's for the most part. We've been spoiled over the last several years with very high temps in January and February. With tulips and other bulbs beginning to pop up during the first weeks of January, not so this year. It would seem that we're having a more moderate weather event, and some climatologists are suggesting we may be in the early stages of a global cooling event. There have been few sunspots during the beginning of the Solar Max period, and as such, historically, that has indicated a dramatic cooling event. We'll have to keep our fingers crossed that that is not the case at this point in history.