EP: Dalian, China
A crack team of local scientists was dumbfounded yesterday upon discovering that "March 1" does not in fact equal "warm weather."
"Incredible," one of them said, speaking under conditions of anonymity. "Traditionally, March 1 is the beginning of Spring in our region. Yet we were overwhelmed with the evidence given recently that March 1 is not necessarily the calendar equivalent of warmth."
The "overwhelming evidence" referred to was a large storm on the morning of March 3, which left the city blanketed with snow. The source revealed that snow is typically identified with cold rather than heat, but a crack team of scientists and mathematicians, including some who were responsible for first identifying the city's abundant supply of expensive sea cucumbers as "the nutritious seafood," was investigating whether or not this could be a rare occurrence of "warm snow," a previously unrecorded weather phenomenon.
In addition to studying the possibility of warm snow, the team will test other hypotheses, the most prominent of which is that while March 1 may in fact equal warmth, March 2 and 3 could function under a mathematical anomaly generally reserved for colder months. "We will be sure to solve this dilemma by the deadline of March 15," our source told us. "Until that date or the mystery is solved, the heat to local apartments may be provided."
Posted by at March 3, 2004 8:43 AM