Wild weather

It's Easter Sunday, and I have just read about the unexpected cold spell that has hit the midwest and east coast portions of the US and parts of Canada I presume (since my sister says temps are back in the negative single digits after hitting the positive single digits in the past week). The weird weather has caused it to snow in many parts resulting in surreal situations:

• It made for an unusually cold and windy conditions at the PGA Masters in Augusta, Atlanta where Tiger Woods's score as of the third round is a disappointing 2 over par. But hey, he's in second place, believe it or not! The leaders are at +1. This is probably the first time that no one made an under par score by the third round??? The joke is that the wind chill was the only low score there.
  
• In Washington, DC snow covered the cherry trees which had already blossomed days ago.
  
• I suppose people showed up wrapped in coats and scarves at Easter egg hunts (at least where the annual activity wasn't canceled) in many parts of the country with the kids searching for the eggs buried in the snow!
  
• A major league baseball game last Friday in Ohio got snowed out, completing just four innings, and was postponed to be played on Saturday, only to be postponed a second time.
• I also noticed last night that the eagle's nest was covered with snow--with no eagle incubating the eggs in sight! Observers had noted that the birds had left the nest unattended for three hours sometime last week, leading experts to doubt the success of this year's nesting. So sad. There appears to be some optimism though as the birds have not left the nest for an extended period.
• Even the famous and greatest of weather prognosticators, Punxsutawney Phil, was forced to issue an apology for his erroneous prediction in this year's Groundhog day.
  

We sure could use some of the cold air here where it's been scorching hot (at least 33C) for the past few days. Then we would not have to turn on the airconditioning and that would surely help bring down electric consumption.