25 April 2009

Weather Update

Through A.D. 2009 April 25:

Days with snow cover: 121
Days with complete snow cover: 65
Total snowfall: 144 centimeters
Maximum snow depth: 25 centimeters
Greatest snow event: 20 centimeters
Maximum low temperature: about -24.5º Celsius (-12º Fahrenheit)
Latest date with complete snow cover: A.D. 2009 March 03
Latest date with any snow cover: A.D. 2009 April 08
Latest snowfall: A.D. 2009 April 23
Latest light frost: A.D. 2009 April 24
Latest hard frost: A.D. 2009 April 13
Latest date with a high temperature at or below 0º Celsius: A.D. 2009 April 07

F***ing hot. Three days ago the high temperature was between 8º and 9º Celsius (46º-48º F.). Two days ago it snowed. Yesterday morning we had a light frost. Today the temperature is already 30º Celsius (86º Fahrenheit) in the shade. The roads are clogged with people. Two thoughts have been bouncing around my mind: I forgot how much I dislike summer (too many people; too hot) and I want a sailboat.

I didn't start keeping track of the last hard frost until after we stopped having them. We had something like 11 hard frosts in 13 days so I decided to stop worrying until later in the month. We've only had one or two since then, so my statistics aren't perfect. It's very likely that we had a hard frost on A.D. 2009 April 16. It's a little less likely (but still likely) that we had one on A.D. 2009 April 17. I'm hoping that we'll have another one, but the long-term forecast doesn't look good. In any case, I'm leaving the date of April 13 for now.

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