Well, the weather prognosticators got it right concerning our winter. They told us we’d have a colder-than-normal winter, with more snow than normal. They shot and scored with that one.

Now comes word that the Panhandle spring is going to be, um, more explosive and unpredictable than normal. That’s got to send chills up our spines if the weather folks have that one pegged, too.

Does this mean the vaunted March winds will be windier? Will the storms dump more rain than normal? Will the hail stones be larger than usual? Will we see more tornadoes than we usually do?

My wife and I will have visitors from out of town arriving in mid-March. It will be my sister and brother-in-law. Sis asked me about two weeks ago about the weather here in March. I giggled a little over the phone — and told her it’s difficult to describe the weather here. She’s been here twice already: once in December 1999 and once in late summer 2005. The spring is altogether different.

The National Weather Service predicts that it’s going to be even more unsettled than usual.

I’ll need to remind her of the popular Panhandle saying: “If you don’t like the weather, wait 20 minutes … “

The experts are blaming all this on the Pacific Ocean water temperatures that are driving all these storms inland.

Poor El Nino. “He” gets blamed for everything.