April showers?

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 5:13 pm

Here in my neck of the woods, we're having showers, but NOT rain showers. SNOW showers! I'm not the photographer that Darwin is, but here's a picture of the massive lilac bush across the street from me (taken out my front window). As you can see, it's almost in full bloom, and if you look carefully, you can see the snow coming down.

It's actually been snowing all day, but none of has stuck, thankfully!

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 5:24 pm

It's not fair! I can definitely see the snow. It got down to 30 here last night. People were worried that the tulip display in a nearby town (a huge and beautiful display and the town's main income for the year) would be ruined for their festival, but I think no damage was done. It is beautiful here now, just a bit chilly.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 5:39 pm

Good gravy. I sure don't need snow. It was chilly here in the mid-Atlantic today though. I put my longjohns back on for the first time in a couple weeks.

scottielvr · Post by **scottielvr** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 5:44 pm

Snowed late last night and most of today; about an inch of it stuck to everything but the roads. Hard freeze warning tonight. I wouldn't want to try to make a living as a farmer hereabouts (well, with each successive year, fewer of them do, either).

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 10:55 pm

I feel thy pain. I planted zinnias three days ago. They were just sprouting.

Oops.

Charlene · Post by **Charlene** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 11:25 pm

It was 76 and sunny in Spokane today.

But before everyone lynches me, I'd like to add that so far this year (since January 1) we have only had 4.01 inches of precipitation, and our normal is 5.84, so we are still below average. The maple trees are blooming, though, so that usually means we'll have some rain just as all the blossoms fall - which makes a yellow mess on the sidewalk.

Still, it's going to be a dry year. We only got about half our usual snowfall this winter. By the time we go into our usual dry spell between July 10 and the first week of Sept. we'll be ripe for all kinds of fires.

Last week I planted potatoes, beans, carrots, lettuce, and radishes. Didn't have any pea seeds. Bought some, but haven't had time to get them in yet. I'm tempted to plant tomatoes but it's way too early yet, we could still get frost. Still too early for most annuals too, although the store I work at is selling tomatoes, peppers, and marigolds already. I heard one of the managers say she hopes people DO go ahead and plant, then they'll have to come back and buy more when we get frost.

Darwin · Post by **Darwin** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 12:24 am

Cool picture Izz!

Too bad it didn't stick. (From a purely artistic viewpoint, of course.)

We missed the mid-December snow here, but I'm sure we'll catch some next year. It's been about 23-24 years since I've seen snow live--up in the Tacoma, WA area. (Ft. Lewis, really.)

We did get a bit of rain today, though.

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 3:07 am

We got a couple of inches of the heavy wet type. It melted off the grass slowly throughout the day.

I've been griping about the lack of rain so I guess I'll have to accept any precipitation however it comes.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 7:08 am

Darwin wrote:Too bad it didn't stick. (From a purely artistic viewpoint, of course.)

I actually spoke too soon. It did end up sticking, although when the sun decided to pretend to come out this morning, all the snow melted in terror. But by the time it was sticking, it was too dark to take a good picture anyway.

When we were in the Army, our first post was Fr. Bliss, El Paso. I was kind of excited to go through a winter without snow, since I'm a northern girl and ALWAYS had snow. Turned out that the year we were there, they got almost an inch of snow. So much for a snowless winter!

We also were at Fr. Lewis, and I always had to laugh about how when the first snowflake hit the ground, the entire city of Seattle closed down.

NicoMoreno · Post by **NicoMoreno** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 8:05 am

Yesterday morning I woke up and looked out the window and could have sworn I was still dreaming.

Not just some snow... All the grass was covered (no green at all)

And it is only south central Ontario here!

MarkB · Post by **MarkB** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 4:42 pm

With the snaining (snow+rain) we got this past weekend, on Saturday alone Environment Canada stated that Windsor got 16 centimetres of snow and 11.2 mm of rain. On Sunday we got 17 mm of meltwater, if 17 mm was included for the total weekend we would have gotten 33 centimetres of snow!

That means a total of 232.6 centimetres of snow for the winter season, an all time high for the Banana Belt of Canada, even got more snow than London Ontario which is in the snow belt.

Today the sun is out, the sky is blue and it is 50 degrees! without a trace of snow.

MakrB

Charlene · Post by **Charlene** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 6:47 pm

I haven't heard of "snain" since we moved from Michigan! My father was stationed at Selfridge Air Force Base, and one of the Detroit forecasters (I think his name was Sonny Elliot) used to use that phrase!

It's 78 here at 5:45 pm.

But they are predicting a cold front by Wednesday.

MarkB · Post by **MarkB** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 6:49 pm

That's were I remember the word from (snain), good old Sonny Idiot..Elliot! I knew I didn't coin the word but for the life of me I couldn't remember were I heard it. Thanks for the memories!

MarkB

Darwin · Post by **Darwin** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:14 pm

izzarina wrote:We also were at Fr. Lewis, and I always had to laugh about how when the first snowflake hit the ground, the entire city of Seattle closed down.

We were at Ft. Lewis (1980-82), and driving on a freeway after the first little snowfall was pretty interesting. There were all these cars that had apparently spun about 120 degrees and then slid backwards off the road, pointing back he way they had come. Fortunately, I still had chains in the car from having been in Tokyo a year or two before, so I put them on as soon as the snow started.

(What was more fun was driving through the hills to Yakima Firing Center during a real blizzard, in jeeps with trailers and a variety of Army trucks. Even with chains, some of the vehicles went off the road.)

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:48 pm

My great grandmother, out in the west end of the state, said it got down to 34 there, yesterday morning.