Spring has Sprung

I was tweeting a while ago and "Spring has sprung" read blogTO. Indeed, spring is overdue now. Stores across Toronto are sporting the latest seasonal prêt à porter, flirty models on magazines across the world are gamboling in gardens of Eden and the tropical destinations are already thawing under the relentless summer heat. But here in Toronto it is still spring to be. The following is a weather prediction by theweathernetwork.com:

Short Term ForecastUpdated: Mon, Apr. 4, 2011, 20:00 EDT

	Monday OvernightOvernight: 12:00 AM - 5:59 AM	Tuesday MorningMorning: 6:00 AM - 11:59 AM	Tuesday AfternoonAfternoon: 12:00 PM - 5:59 PM	Tuesday EveningEvening: 6:00 PM - 11:59 PM
	Mainly cloudy	Cloudy with sunny breaks	Variable cloudiness	Cloudy periods
Temp.	3°C	3°C	6°C	5°C
Feels Like	-3	-3	-	-
Wind	W 30km/h	NW 35km/h	W 30km/h	W 20km/h
Humidity	81%	75%	60%	52%
P.O.P.	30%	30%	30%	10%
Snow	-	-	-	-

 So, where is spring if it still feels like -3 or even -16 sometimes? And to top that, it snowed the entire evening yesterday. The weather in Canada, I heard at a talk on the development of Inuit art, has been changing rapidly over the last few decades. And this change is increasingly being reflected in Inuit artworks which has come to recurrently depict their environmental concerns and observations. I saw a beautiful sculpture at the Art Gallery; A bear in black stone trapped in white snow. Isn't it ironical that when we were marveling at the exquisite details on this victim of global warming, we too were trapped inside the gallery because of sudden wind turbulence and snowfall outside? Did grass always grow on the frigid floor of Alaska? I would like to think that it did and also that we just happened to notice it now...