What is with the weather these days? It was starting to get warmer so I put my heater away. The next day it rained followed by a cold front that frosted my windows. I was commiserating with a friend about the strange weather and found out it was quite normal.

The Japanese have a term for the weather between Winter and Spring. "san kan shi on." It translates roughly to "three cold three warm." The weather just before Spring fluctuates from cold to warm to cold to...you get the idea. Now we're in the third cold which means the next period of warm weather will carry us into Summer.

Yatta! Soon it will be time for cherry blossom parties.