When it comes to weather in New England, we generally follow the “at least it’s not snowing” school of thought. We can handle the heat. The humidity, we can live with. Even the occasional rainy summer weekend is fine.

But lately, our umbrellas have been getting more use than our sunglasses, and it’s slowly starting to wear us down. Every day, right around lunch or quitting time, we get caught in a sudden deluge.

Do we blame global warming? A persistent cold front? WBZ meteorologist Ken Barlow tells us to blame Canada.

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When heading out for a nice lunchtime stroll, always bring your umbrella. Otherwise, you’ll find yourself taking the train one stop from Prudential to Symphony to avoid both the deluge and possible lightning strike (on second thought, maybe the umbrella doesn’t help so much with the latter).

The bad weather will also probably result in the cancellation of the Berklee College drum circle that was to take place on our front lawn in an hour. You can imagine how sad this makes us.

I hate winter. Sure, the cold is fine between Thanksgiving and Christmas. It’s festive, in a way. But come December 26, I’m ready to break out the flip-flops and tank tops once more.

So I’d really like it if everyone could stop whining about the heat.

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At long last, Patriot’s Day is nearly here. After dealing with nightmare commutes during blizzards, and an unusually early Easter, it’s the first chance we’ve had to really get out and celebrate spring.

The curmudgeons among us view the third Monday of April with dread. Most of the city’s roads are closed, making it nearly impossible to get around by car. Those who aren’t lucky enough to get the day off have to contend with tourists and runners on the T.

Whether you love the madness or pout all day, we want you to be prepared. After the jump, we outline all the Patriot’s Day happenings.

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We admit that we’ve been a little busy with more pressing manners than the snow falling outside. But after reading Boston.com we expected to see a scene that resembled the one during the December 13 snowstorm that spawned a million nightmare commutes. We prepared ourselves for cars stuck in snowdrifts and police directing endless lines of cars down Mass Ave.

Instead, we saw this.

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Nothing takes the fun out of your Friday evening like a snowy commute. At least one branch of the MBTA is bound to have complications, and when you get home to grab your car and drive to dinner, it may not be there.

A Boston Daily mole has seen cars being towed all over Somerville, which declared a snow emergency at 3 a.m. And that’s only the beginning of the snow-related headaches.

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I have been a big fan of Pete Bouchard since Channel 7’s chief meteorologist was the aptly-named Todd Gross. My love for Bouchard started by reading his “weather blog” on the station’s website. Any guy who can work references to classic rock or obscure movies into a weather forecast is a man to be admired.

Since WHDH unceremoniously dumped Gross back in 2005, and went with Bouchard, I haven’t kept up with Pete’s writeups like I did in the past. But the channel called in the chief for today’s snowstorm, so we have the rare privilege of a workday Bouchard writeup.

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If you’re anything like us, you’ve been having fantasies about the times when you didn’t need a coat and two pairs of socks to venture outside your home. You long for the days when you could lesiurely sip a frozen libation wearing shorts and a t-shirt.

Instead, our winter of discontent continues with a storm that’s due to hit this evening. Since we can’t force the warm weather to start (God knows we’ve tried), we’ll take our anger out on the forecasters who bring us the bad news. After the jump, we record the local meteorologists’ predictions about what’s coming.

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Winter in New England always tests the limits of the social contract. Whether it’s a neighbor blowing snow into your yard, or a crazy bastard guarding a parking spot with folding chairs and recycling bins, the inconsiderate behavior of others is magnified by the bad weather.

But one man in Somerville is fast becoming our hero for diffusing the tension before it escalates (via Somerville Journal).

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After a weekend of drinking celebratory beers, we here at Boston Daily decided to brave the elements and head to the gym as our penance. We expected to get stuck in a snowbank and be pecked apart by falcons, but we had no problems on our short walk. There are some pretty cold slush puddles, but nothing that should prohibit travel very much.

You hear that, kids? You’re going to have school tomorrow.

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