This is the season of the give and take. As we hope beyond hope to finally shed winter and move toward summer, we will take steps forward and back. And if you’re yearning for those days when you knock off a hard day of work at 6 p.m. and pull up to the beach with just a board and a pair of trunks with over two hours of daylight to hop in the ocean, there is good news and there is bad news.

You don’t need to be a scientist to dissect the meteorology behind the radical temperatures we’ve endured since the…