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Thu, Apr 29, 2010

Precip

Posted at 7:18 am MDT to Weather

This has been a strange couple of weeks for weather. We seem to be in a pattern of a couple of nice, warm days followed by a couple of cold wet ones.

And the cold is serious: this morning is the fourth time in the last week and a half that there has been visible snow on the ground at my house. This is unusual for this late in the season. May Day is the day after tomorrow.

Fortunately, it has not been serious snow. Last week at this time we were getting massive amounts of rain -- multiple inches over the course of just a couple of days, which is also quite unusual -- which finished up with an inch of snow on Friday afternoon.

That's the greatest snow accumulation I've seen this month, and I am very glad that most of that precipitation was rain not snow. Heavy rain tends to make my basement a little wet in a couple of spots, but at least it doesn't need to be shoveled.

The other snow-falls have just been dustings: very pretty because the snow sticks to everything, but also quick to melt at this time of year.

It's just weird to see snow on the ground so late in the season. I've got birds building a nest on top of the breaker box on my front front porch, and I don't blame them for wanting to be under the shelter of the porch roof.

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