Spring has not sprung

To quote one of my favorite old Crowded House songs, "everywhere you go, you always take the weather with you." Sadly, we seem to have brought Basel weather back with us to Washington. After an initial week of beautiful spring weather, we've had several weeks of gray, chilly (even a little snowy) weather, capped off by several inches of rain yesterday and 40mph winds overnight and today. To add insult to injury, I just checked the respective weather here and in Basel--which is usually reliably chilly and damp--and doesn't it figure that at 7:30pm in Basel it was clear and 75 degrees, while at mid-day here it was 45 degrees (with a windchill of 38) and overcast. If you had offered me a bet that Basel would be 30 degrees warmer than Washington (even at noon there/6:00am here) upon our return I would have willingly taken it...