29 March 2012

Weather Update

Through A.D. 2012 March 28:

Total snowfall: 40 centimeters (slightly less than 16 inches)
Days with complete snow cover: 16
Maximum snow depth: 11 centimeters (about 4 inches)
Maximum low temperature: 0 degrees Fahrenheit (once)
Greatest snowfall: 10 centimeters (about 4 inches)
Latest snowfall: 2012 March 25
Latest snow cover: sometime in the seven days immediately following March 08 (it lasted for an hour or two)
Latest hard frost: 2012 March 27
Latest light frost: 2012 March 27

Warmest March on record.  More days with high temperatures in the 60s and 70s than in the 30s and 40s (average).  Almost no snow.  A frost on March 27 is reported to have killed 90% of this year's peach and cherry crop.  No Crocus has been blooming for more than a week.  I have never seen the grass green, the flowers bloom, or the trees grow leaves this early.

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