It’s College Spring Break Time!!...but is it spring yet at your college??

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<p>College Spring Break typically occurs in the month of March, but when the students return to campus, has spring broken out yet? Can the students satisfy that urge to step outside in shorts or slip on a cotton sundress and walk around in flip-flops? Can the students enjoy beautiful new spring growth of gorgeous, colorful flowers and new green grass and green leaves on the trees? Can golf games, tennis games, Frisbees games be renewed outdoors regularly and without resorting to turtlenecks or winter coats and hats? </p>

<p>Weather in college can be a consideration for some students and perhaps especially so for those who enjoy the spring season. The collegiate academic calendar frequently ends by early May, so if you like the spring months and want to enjoy them at your college, then you should consider how many months or weeks of spring you’re likely to get in your college digs. </p>

<p>With the arrival of Daylight Savings Time, I thought it might be useful to compare the outlook across a great variety of colleges across America and compare what’s in store for tomorrow’s first day of classes with the extended light and what the history has been for the month of March. All data is taken from the National Weather Service. </p>

<p>Average High Temperature in March - Average Low Temperature in March , Monday's Forecast High , College (Location) </p>

<p>Spring is definitely here </p>

<p>64 - 46 , 68 , Stanford (Palo Alto, CA)
71 - 47 , 80 , Caltech (Pasadena, CA)
62 - 37 , 63 , Duke (Durham, NC)
74 - 55 , 71 , Rice (Houston, TX)
65 - 44 , 63 , Emory (Atlanta, GA)
61 - 39 , 55 , Vanderbilt (Nashville, TN)
61 - 47 , 68 , UC Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
70 - 52 , 76 , UCLA (Los Angeles, CA)
70 - 52 , 76 , USC (Los Angeles, CA)
62 - 37 , 62 , U North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC)
63 - 38 , 61 , Wake Forest (Winston-Salem, NC)
61 - 37 , 58 , W&M (Williamsburg, VA)
65 - 44 , 63 , Georgia Tech (Atlanta, GA)
66 - 54 , 70 , UCSD (San Diego, CA)
65 - 42 , 72 , UC Davis (Davis, CA)
73 - 51 , 67 , U Texas (Austin, TX)
66 - 48 , 72 , UC Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA)
69 - 45 , 76 , UC Irvine (Irvine, CA)
75 - 51 , 70 , U Florida (Gainesville, FL)
72 - 53 , 67 , Tulane (New Orleans, LA)</p>

<p>Spring is in the air… </p>

<p>57 - 35 , 55 , U Virginia (Charlottesville, VA)
56 - 37 , 54 , Georgetown (Washington, DC)
57 - 39 , 50 , Johns Hopkins (Baltimore, MD)
55 - 39 , 56 , U Washington (Seattle, WA)
55 - 36 , 45 , Wash U (St. Louis, MO)</p>

<p>Sorry, but spring ain't comin' until April </p>

<p>50 - 31 , 47 , Princeton (Princeton, NJ)
51 - 35 , 48 , U Penn (Philadelphia, PA)
50 - 29 , 41 , Carnegie Mellon (Pittsburgh, PA)
49 - 29 , 45 , Lehigh (Bethlehem, PA)
49 - 30 , 36 , U Illinois (Urbanna, IL)</p>

<p>Keep those shorts and sandals packed away-Spring might not get here until Final Exams </p>

<p>46 - 31 , 38 , Harvard (Cambridge, MA)
46 - 28 , 41 , Yale (New Haven, CT)
46 - 31 , 38 , MIT (Cambridge, MA)
48 - 32 , 45 , Columbia (New York, NY)
47 - 32 , 34 , U Chicago (Chicago, IL)
43 - 22 , 33 , Dartmouth (Hanover, NH)
42 - 22 , 31 , Cornell (Ithaca, NY)
48 - 30 , 39 , Brown (Providence, RI)
45 - 28 , 33 , Northwestern (Evanston, IL)
47 - 28 , 34 , Notre Dame (South Bend, IN)
45 - 27 , 34 , U Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)
46 - 31 , 38 , Tufts (Medford, MA)
47 - 27 , 38 , Brandeis (Waltham, MA)
48 - 32 , 45 , NYU (New York, NY)
43 - 25 , 32 , U Rochester (Rochester, NY)
45 - 28 , 38 , Boston Coll (Boston, MA)
45 - 22 , 32 , U Wisconsin (Madison, WI)
46 - 29 , 34 , Case Western (Cleveland, OH)
45 - 25 , 35 , Rensselaer (Troy, NY)
46 - 27 , 41 , Penn State (State College, PA)</p>

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<p>Huh? (I live in SoCal where it's 80 degrees on Monday), how could it be less than 40 degrees in March in the US?</p>

<p>I think I'm going to be screwed if I go to an East coast school (which is very likely).</p>

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<p>Actually, living in Socal, I'd prefer some more cold rain storms thru the months of March and April...I hate hot Santa Ana conditions.</p>

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With the arrival of Daylight Savings Time, I thought it might be useful to compare the outlook across a great variety of colleges across America and compare what’s in store for tomorrow’s first day of classes with the extended light and what the history has been for the month of March.

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I'd also prefer to keep my extra hour of sleep. With the Feds advancing Daylight Savings, sunrise will not be until almost 7 AM at my latitude for the first couple weeks.</p>

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<p>Friday night we had 3-5 inches of snow in Nashville. It's definitely not spring here yet,sadly. Last year we had record single digit lows the first week in April and it killed all of the flowers and many trees,etc.
I am sure there are still lots of Vandy students running around in shorts and flip flops anyway!</p>

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<p>"With the Feds advancing Daylight Savings, sunrise will not be until almost 7 AM at my latitude for the first couple weeks."
That's pretty much how it is where I live from November to February or so.</p>

<p>That aside, this is a very interesting idea for a thread. I'd like to point out, however, that at least in NYC, it may still snow in the beginning of March but it'll usually get up to 60 or so by the end of March.</p>

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<p>"Can the students satisfy that urge to step outside in shorts or slip on a cotton sundress and walk around in flip-flops? Can the students enjoy beautiful new spring growth of gorgeous, colorful flowers and new green grass and green leaves on the trees? Can golf games, tennis games, Frisbees games be renewed outdoors regularly"</p>

<p>Pepperdine year round! D called and said she is tan from beach days during spring break on the coast. </p>

<p>Snow is something to visit when desired, not to trudge through to class!</p>

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<p>In Feb my LA daughter was rung up by a friend in Boston. The conversation went something like this "I'm trudging through the snow to class, what are you doing?" "I'm studying in the sun by the pool." "If you are wearing a bathing suit I'm hanging up." "Yeah, I'm wearing a bathing suit." CLICK.</p>

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<p>Great lists! I'm glad I live in California. =)</p>

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<p>I'm in Iowa and it snowed today, it may actually still be snowing right now.</p>

<p>Winter and spring are so random around here---it was in the negative teens for temp last week (plus wind chill!) and this week it's supposed to reach the low 40s. We had about 1/4" of snow fall on April 11th last year!!! It had been decent weather (50s-60s) from about early March until then, then suddenly one day it starts to snow and the next day it was back to the 50s.</p>

<p>I'm just ready for summer. It's been a ridiculously (and unusual) cold and long winter and I'm ready for some blazing hot days out in the sun. Not looking forward to the horrible humidity, but I'll deal with that.</p>

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<p>lol randombetch - I go to Case Western (Cleveland)</p>

<p>We just had a blizzard</p>

<p>EDIT: we got a foot of snow last year on easter</p>

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<p>
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Huh? (I live in SoCal where it's 80 degrees on Monday), how could it be less than 40 degrees in March in the US?

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Hah. It was 30 today in my old midwestern hometown. ;)</p>

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<p>I'm still scraping my car windows here in Michigan! My babysitter just spent his spring break on a cruise, so they do find ways to get some sun. Incidentally, the K-12 schools in town have the same week off, but they call it Mid-Winter break because they have an additional "spring break" later. Mid-Winter is a more appropriate label, but U-M gets out early so they only have the one. Graduation is April 26th!</p>

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<p>It is most definitely not spring right now at Penn or Princeton. :(</p>

<p>Then again, that's what makes spring break trips that much more enjoyable.</p>

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<p>"Then again, that's what makes spring break trips that much more enjoyable."</p>

<p>In Upstate New York it is referred to as Winter Break II.</p>

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<p>Too bad, Rice already had spring break....it's back to school for us....</p>