Dear Editor:

I am writing about one of the strangest and worst winters I have ever seen since I have lived here at Ocean Point.

Only two months ago, in late December, we had a green Christmas, 50 degree temperatures, completely bare ground and it was like April or Easter.

But, of course, we knew that couldn't last too long, with winter here. It was pretty easy going until Jan, 27 when we got walloped with one of the biggest January blizzards.

It has been the coldest and snowiest Februarys on record here on the Point and the Boothbay region. We've been receiving Alaska's cold and snow in the past month or more.

What has been causing this crazy weather pattern is that high pressure out in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, just off the West Coast of the United States, has been sending warm, southerly winds up from Hawaii towards Alaska and sending down cold, northerly and northwesterly, winds towards us here in Maine and the New England states.

We've received very cold winds from the Arctic and the Siberian Express, not to mention blocking high pressure out there in the Atlantic, sending snowstorms right smack-dab into most of the Maine coast.

This is just the opposite of the very open winter only three years ago in 2012, when I only shoveled the driveway only two times that year! Back on March 21 and 22, 2012, it was summer-like, with 80-degree weather both days.

I am sick of shoveling that white stuff! I am ready for spring.

Bob Moore

Ocean Point

P.S. The low-pressure areas couldn't go out to sea, like a lot of them do, so that is why we have gotten so much snow since Jan. 27. The high-pressure areas blocked the low-pressure areas, sending snowstorms closer to the Maine coast.