My Internet keeps going down, probably having to do with the sticky snow. The power has flickered a couple of times, too. I'm going to see if my hotspot is any better.
This is the first time all year that the forecasts were way worse than they said it was going to be. I think this is the biggest snowstorm we've had this season, and it's all heavy snow. Much of Maine is without power. We lost ours several times throughout the night but never for long. Our cable internet is still working, oddly enough, since the cable is literally lying across the street a half-block from here. The snow is heavy on the trees. A tree in the yard next to us is leaning at about a 30-degree angle, nearly touching our house. I just shoveled our walk so the mail guy can get in since my wife has an eBay pickup scheduled and, although the UPS guy will walk through the snow to do a delivery, the USPS won't come unless the walk is clear. They won't even walk through an inch of snow. I hope our plow guy comes along because the snow at the end of the driveway is too heavy for me to move easily, and I'm hoping he will be along to take care of that. I cleared the car and the rest of the drive off. I didn't get to bed until 5:00 am and had to get up at 7:00 am to get the shoveling done. They are saying that we got 14 inches of snow, but I think that's an exaggeration. Wet, heavy snow; and, while the forecast was for a mixture of snow and rain, now they are saying it won't be melting away soon. It's still snowing. Yesterday, our snow was nearly gone. There were only a few patches in the back yard.
We are going to drop in temperature some 40 degrees between today (Friday 4/10) at 72 and Sunday AM with Sundays' high of 31. Snow coming in for Easter Sunday and part of Monday. Only looking at about 4 inches, but for some folks here, that's entirely too much. Lately, we seen some days with temps in the high 60's and lower 70's and people have really gotten use to that. I've seen numerous young folks out in shorts. But, for this time of year, Colorado can give a nice taste of spring, just to have winter return with snow and cold.
We did have a large snowstorm but it seems that we got it all at once rather than over a period of days, as they predicted. Most of it has melted now.
Snow started early Easter Sunday AM and came down pretty much all day, but got heavier in the evening. Stopped around 10PM, then started again this morning at 8AM. This AM at 7, it was 16 degrees, so no snow melt at all. Snow slowed, so I went out and cleaned off 6 inches of it off of our Durango. I measured the snow on the hood and it was 6 inches. More snow for this evening, then ending, but another snowstorm on Thursday. April can be a big month for snow for us. When we were living here, south of Denver, in April 2003, when a major blizzard hit where our apartment was. A good 5 feet that covered every vehicle in parking lot. It took a front-loader and four dump trucks to get the snow out.
I could not believe it, but we had some hail and snow flurries in Madison, NJ yesterday. It is still freezing outside.
Waking up to this on May 9th is the kind of weather that makes one think that maybe there is something to all of this climate change nonsense. The picture doesn't show it, but it's still snowing heavily. But then, my Facebook history pops up and I find that I was moaning about a snowstorm on this day nine years ago. It's just one of those things, living in Maine. Sometimes, although rarely, April showers might actually bring May flowers, other times we have snow in May, and I think I can remember one year when we still had snow on the ground in June. The fluctuation is even greater on the other end. I've seen snow as early as August and as late as December. On at least one year, the ground was bare at Christmas.
Every time that I think that I really miss north Idaho, then I see something like you just posted, @Ken Anderson , and I remember that we had this same kind of weather out there. Snow in May was not common, but definitely did happen, and I remember frost on the windshield of my pickup at the end of August one year. Even though I grumble about the heat and humidity here in Alabama, I think that (unless I totally stayed inside all winter ) i am probably happier here than I would be living in the Idaho winters. It seems like I just do not have the resistance that I used to have, and my body does not compensate for either the heat or the cold anymore; so spring and fall are about the only seasons where I can comfortably be outside for very long.
Seriously appears that our last snow happened in the middle of the week after Easter. That was 9 inches worth. However, when we lived here in Colorado before, we did see 6 inches of snow on Mother's Day Weekend. Not each year of the 5 1/2 years we lived here before, but did see it a couple of times. This is been somewhat of a tough winter for us, being the first winter back in Colorado. But, my wife told me, "It sure looks pretty coming down" as she looked outside during this last winter. "Would much rather have the winter snow than the Hurricane Season that will start in Florida in a few weeks", she also said to me. I totally agree.