(WAVY) — The spring season is home to some wacky weather, especially here in Hampton Roads, and it helps to think of the spring as less of a season and more of a transition.

We are transitioning from winter being cold to summer being hot — winter’s specific tuning; cold, summer’s specific tuning; hot.

In the atmosphere, our jet stream is the general flow of weather from west to east. In the winter, its specific tuning (or position) is farther south, giving us access to colder air to our north. In the summer, its specific tuning (or position) is farther north, giving us access to warmer air to our south.

As the Earth gains more daylight and heat throughout the spring, the atmosphere compensates by tuning the jet stream from the winter position to the summer position. It moves a little north, a little south, farther north, to eventually get into the summer set up.

So the spring season doesn’t really have a specific tuning to it. It’s more of the tuning process itself. That doesn’t really sound too enjoyable, and neither is weather flip-flopping back and forth and up and down on a day-to-day basis.