I moved from Massachusetts to Lewes 49 years ago. I spent the summers of my youth in Ocean City, MD because my parents were from DC and Baltimore. They wanted to return to OC each summer from MA to spend time with old friends and be back in familiar space. Delmarva is a little southern-like in the summer (hot and humid) and a little northern-like in the winter, most years. The thing about Delmarva is that since it is surrounded by the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays and the Atlantic Ocean daily temperatures are very much influenced by the water temperature surrounding the land mass. The deep freeze in January and early February brought the ocean ands bays water temperature way down. Local weather forecasters are reporting all three water bodies are at 38 degrees now so wind from nearly any direction here now is a cold wind. Is it any wonder that we have had fog off and on (mostly on) for the past week. Because of the lingering warm water in the fall surrounding the peninsula we usually have mild and long autumns but, conversely, spring takes a long time to knick in. Forecasts a few days ago for temperature to be in the mid 70s today were disappointingly wrong as we are only lucky enough to reach 50 today which is only marginally better than the high of 43 yesterday. I find some comfort in looking back to not even four weeks ago to frozen DE Bay in Lewes with wind chill temps in the singly numbers. We’ve come a long way in warming up in less than a month but my impatient self wants those 70 degree days to ACTUALLY get here. Soon, right?
