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THE SNOWS may be flying, but any day now you may get a peek at spring. It’s still the dead of winter, and it’s also the time for the January thaw, the yearly crack in the icebox door that gives a glance at April, the National Geographic Society says.
A meteorology professor who has kept his eye on the January thaw for years says: “It’s not folklore—it appears about two winters out of three.” This year? “It’s worth a $3 bet that it will show up,” he says, “but no more.”
The January thaw has been visiting the minds of Americans every winter for at least since the days Washington’s frostbitten soldiers hoped for a little warming and melting at Valley Forge. And it was probably what Philander Johnson, longtime Washington, D C., newspaperman, was describing when he wrote:
“Oh, what a blamed uncertain
thing
This pesky weather is!
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