The first documented version of this weather phrase appeared in Thomas Fuller's 1732 compendium, Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs: Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British. The authors give the wording as "Comes in like a Lion, goes out like a Lamb." March begins in winter so the weather is with all probability to be more like a winter storm. Thirty-one days later is a long time when the spring sun is on the rise. The weather at the end of the month is more likely to be like a spring lamb by comparison. This saying has no other basis in science though and is likely to be wrong.
In 2019 March was certainly going out like a lion and not a lamb. The spring storm that started Friday night and lasted into late Sunday morning was well handled at all time frames by the forecast office. I deployed my rain gauge and measured 41 mm of rain from early Saturday morning through to 8 am Sunday morning. The rain changed to snow and about 5 centimetres accumulated on the ground. The Singleton Lake levels would crest at spring flood levels in another five or six days as the liquid made its way through the watershed.
Heavy bands of snow were crossing Singleton Lake into Sunday evening. A secondary vorticity centre apparent in the water vapour imagery was the cause of this heightened activity that caught my eye and appears in this painting. This weather was not well predicted although the remote sensing and the science of patterns would have given it away. The spring sun was just a faint hint in the oils. There was a lot of energy in those clouds. Ice still dominated the west basin of Singleton. I would not trust that ice to walk on it unless I was wearing my bathing suit. The water in the east basin was moody and filled with spring run-off...
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