Everywhere you went this week the conversation was but one thing — the weather.

While snow of this week’s proportion is never wished for, it certainly is not unusual for Northeast Michigan. In 2003 the region received 17.8 inches of snow over a two-day period, and during the entire month that year 23 inches fell.

The size of the mid-week storm –10 very wet inches across most of the region but in isolated places, up to 14 inches — made it the topic of conversation. While Alpena School students were on Spring Break (irony of ironies), schools elsewhere were canceled as were most meetings and many businesses closed as well.

Unfortunately, for those hoping to soon view high school spring sports, flowers and robins, you are going to need to be patient.

National Weather Service meteorologist Jim Keysor said in a news story this week that spring weather is taking its time in arriving to the region.

“We are going to get just enough snow and cold to remind us that spring isn’t here yet, despite what the calendar says,” Keysor said. “Normally by now we are in the 50s but they are nowhere in sight right now.”

Back in February the groundhog said six more weeks … not eight to 10 weeks.

As far as we’re concerned, spring can’t arrive soon enough.