More rain. It snowed yesterday up at work, but not at the lower elevations. When I came back from lunch, and Dr. S (anesthesiologist) was staring down the hall out the window, and I followed his gaze, I broke out laughing. Snow in May, here, is pretty rare. Those huge, clumpy flakes falling thickly struck me as very funny. On the other hand, when I was a kid, I remember flurries on the first and last days of school, so first week of June, and last week of August, so I don't feel the sense of injustice and horror expressed by locals who expect perfect weather from April through September. In Boston, sleet sliding into spring territory was expected, if just as bitterly complained of.
The threat of floods from the mountain streams is delayed, and exacerbated. Less melting, more snow added, limiting the time for the liquidation, means more gush and energy, as well as more time for mitigation. Continues to be a wet, cool year. Waiting for the first week of 80-90˚F.
Dark skies and rain today.
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Here too it has been an exceedingly damp spring. Where I live specifically is not flood prone, however, the nearby Richelieu River has gone way over its banks.
As for snow falls in out of season times, that is quite rare here, but it does occasionally happen.
Meanwhile, in Middle England, normally cool and damp, it's been warm and very dry. There are the usual British doomladen predictions of failure of the potato crops (no chips? unthinkable!) and empty reservoirs. But no snow at the moment.
The mountain farms here are running out of water.
and we are basking in unusual sun and have been for the last month or so...unheard of...we will doubtless be punished with a soggy summer
Rain, rain, and more rain here. They're actually cancelling baseball games. Aargh!
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