Weather Update

Through A.D. 2011 May 25:

Days with snow cover: 128
Days with complete snow cover: 087
Total snowfall: 162 centimeters
Maximum snow depth: 30 centimeters (12 inches)
Greatest snow event: 28 centimeters (11 inches)
Maximum low temperature: -12º Fahrenheit (about -24.4º Celsius)
Latest date with a high temperature at or below freezing: A.D. 2011 March 27
Latest date with complete snow cover: A.D. 2011 March 27
Latest date on which the ground was covered with snow: A.D. 2011 April 05
Latest date with snow cover: A.D. 2011 April 05
Latest snowfall: A.D. 2011 April 21
Latest light frost: A.D. 2011 April 22
Latest hard frost: A.D. 2011 April 22

There you have it.  Even though it was bloody cold, we didn't have any frost after April 22.  I believe that was the earliest last frost we've had since I've lived here.  It was an anti-climatic end to the coldest, snowiest winter I've experienced in New York.  As I said, it was bloody cold through the end of April and into the beginning of May.  Most days had high temperatures in the 40s or low 50s (the averages were upper 50s and low 60s) and it rained almost every day for more than three weeks.  What a miserable Spring.  The rain remained well into May (it's still here), but the temperatures have finally returned to normal.

We still haven't had any very hot weather, but I'm not complaining.  I think we've had one day that reached 80.  Hopefully, things will remain moderate as long as mother nature will allow it.

Weather Update

April was the second wettest April in the recorded history of Yates County, New York.  According to The Weather Channel, my location received 5.76 inches of rain in April.  The Weather Channel indicates that the average April rainfall is 2.77 inches.

We haven't had a frost in a while (a couple of weeks), but plant growth (excepting grass growth) has been stunted by the consistent cold, cloudy weather that we've had since March.  It would be ironic if we have one of our earliest last frosts in the same year that we have our coolest, wettest, Spring.