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mechtild

Snow in May

May 08, 2010 11:10

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Yes, snow in May. After we went on record for having no measureable snowfall in April, and nearly the warmest March on record, yesterday it snowed. It snowed 4 inches "up the hill" (away from Lake Superior, only a mile or two inland from here), but down here not much. Well, you'll see.
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shirebound May 8 2010, 16:45:43 UTC

Wow! The trees must be very confused. :)

mechtild May 8 2010, 19:08:31 UTC

I think trees in a lot of places have been confused lately! :)

verangel May 8 2010, 17:17:17 UTC

Its lovely but eeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! The birds are saying wtf? hugs you xooxoox v

mechtild May 8 2010, 19:08:00 UTC

Even in during the snowfall the robins were out there bouncing around happily, pulling up worms. It wasn't cold enough to freeze the earth, which was wet with rain (which only later turned to snow). But if we'd had put out annuals in the flower beds (something no sane person living here does until the end of May, at the earliest), they'd have been killed.

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mechtild May 8 2010, 19:05:21 UTC

Oh, spring is right back on track. Looking out the window, you'd never know that snow happened. The dandelions, certainly, are utterly unfased. :)

estelanui May 8 2010, 19:33:43 UTC

A crazy Spring indeed.
Here is raining and cold and there is also snow on the mountain top. It's the colder May in the last 20 years. TV just said this weather will last till the end of the month.
I thought it was because of the dusty volcano, but you too are experiencing a crazy weather.
I bet you the responsible is the bad economical situation. :)

The pics are beautiful and I'm rooting for the poor swelling buds

mechtild May 9 2010, 02:26:23 UTC

Ha ha, don't worry about the apple tree buds, they'll be fine. After the snow melted this morning, the sun out, you'd never know there'd been any snow. Yes, the weather has been nutty everywhere, and for the last several years, don't you think? Some say global warming, but I wonder if the earth isn't going into its next climate shift anyway, human-made global warming only exacerbating it.

I'm glad you liked the pics!

sayhello May 8 2010, 20:39:53 UTC

Crazy!!!!

Hewene

mechtild May 9 2010, 02:27:01 UTC

Well, you know all about extreme weather, at least you do lately. :)