What does this summer have in store? I'm already thinking about it. I'm trying my best to get an internship for the summer. I know that I am being sought after, and it's just a matter of finding that perfect company.

This school year has been abnormally warm with respect to weather. Naturally it's supposed to be warm in August, and even in September, and it starts to warm back up in the end of March or April. But in the 2016-2017 school year, it had been abnormally warm through the end of November, and even a few days into December, before the snow took over. However, that snow was short-lived, as we are now in late February with temperatures topping 70 degrees in the middle of the day. This is Bowling Green where it's happening. It's unheard-of. It feels like Down Under, where in the middle of the "winter" months, it feels like summer. Some people sweat just walking their way to class. It hardly makes any sense.

Back in late November, it was still in the mid-50s, with sunny skies. It's acceptable for sunny skies to exist every day of the year and still have seasons changing, but it's not likely to be having 50-degree temperatures in late November while still having to rely on air-conditioning. Ironically, it's warmer now than it was three months ago, and it's hard to defy normalcy like this. Most people defy normalcy by doing extraordinary physical things like playing piano backwards, doing back flips with one leg, or Odell Beckham, Jr. doing the one-handed grab in different varieties. Weather is supposed to be natural, but in times like these, it is not. We would expect temperatures anywhere between perhaps, say, 5 below to 40 above.

Most people in the Northwest Ohio area have hung up the jackets to enjoy the blissful breeze, and rightfully so. It's great to experience something as crazy as summer weather in February. It is common for people to complain about 10 degrees Farenheit being cold, but is 10 degrees really that cold for February? It shouldn't be since we are trained to bundle up and adapt to it. The same applies to the summer, since we learn to adapt to hotter conditions by wearing less, wearing lighter colors, and applying different kinds of protection. According to http://www.intellicast.com/Local/History.aspx?loca..., the record high in February in Bowling Green was 72 degrees back in 2000, and while it hasn't quite reached 72 yet this month, we've been really close to breaking that record. On another note, the record low is -13 degrees which was set 35 years ago, and the average low and high are 18 and 35 degrees, respectively. 72 is more than double the average. Depending on what the standard deviation of temperature is from year-to-year in February, reaching 72 is very, very unlikely, with less than 1% probability.

Typically, it warms up starting in March, shortly after Daylight Savings Time starts in the first week of March. One thing that gets overlooked so much is that Daylight Savings time is twice as long as standard time. It perhaps should not be such a surprise when it is as warm as it is now during the time of year which it should be the coldest, that the summers end up being cooler.