April Showers?
Better than half way through the month of April, and it is snowing in the Willamette Valley!
NWS says to expect “unseasonably cold” weather patterns. Well, I’d have to agree. About 1 PM we started getting dime sized hail and lightening. This transitioned into sleet, then snow, and we ended up with about 2 1/2 inches of the stuff on the ground, and a passing pickup in the ditch out on the highway.
Animals all were smart enough to head to the barn…
No telling what this will do for the fruit growers around these parts. Our apple and pear trees are in bloom, so a hard freeze will hardly be a good thing.
Luckily, no produce has been planted yet. Starts are still indoors under lights. I have seen snow in April once in the past 30 years, but not quite this late in the month.
An interesting weather year this has been.