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From the NYTimes Blog, about the winter that will never end:
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Good Thursday morning. It’s very cold.

And windy.

We can’t even call this a weather roller coaster.

It’s more like a bungee jump.

On Wednesday afternoon, the temperature was 56 degrees.

This morning, it’s 16.

Luckily, the temperature will reach its nadir today and bounce up again by Friday.

But not all the way — only to the low 40s.

For now, the air that you feel is coming straight from the Canadian snowpack.

So we’ll have unceasing cold, with wind chill factors in the single digits.

Icy patches, where puddles formed.

Grimacing faces, if left uncovered.

In other words, the same old routine.

Only worse: The wind will blow all day, with gusts reaching 50 miles an hour.

It’s usually much warmer on March 13; the average high is 49 degrees.

But buck up.

On this day in 1888, during the Great Blizzard, it was 6 degrees.