Area Weather

[GOAT]

April isn't called the cruelest month for nothing.

[Pam]

On average it does [[3.3" per season).

That's not the same as "always".

[DetroitTeacher]

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[old guy]

INSTALLING SPRING...
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That's a good one.

[DetroitTeacher]

Thanks. I stole it and have no idea who might get the credit for it.

That's a good one.

[313WX]

That's not the same as "always".

It doesn't "always" snow any time of the year.

Really, what's your point other than to nitpick at semantics?

[Corn.Bot]

Heh, my brother posted that on FB with a comment that he had stolen it, as well... I snapped a screen shot of it and e-mailed it as a .jpg to my coworkers, who are usually a reasonably cheerful bunch but who today were to a person as dull and gray as the sky.

Got a couple of groans that were followed by a grin or two.

[Gary]

What's the big deal about snow in April?

It's consistent with our four seasons: June, July, August and Winter.

[lilpup]

Not unheard of, but still rather late-- I guess all those summer bulbs my wife got for "us" to plant will have to wait just a little longer!

My mom [[75 years of Michigan experience) never plants her annuals until Memorial Day because we've had killing frosts up until then.

[donpablo]

Because it doesn't always snow in April.

Thats true. I've been telling people every year for at least the last 15 years that it snows every april here in the metro area. There was one year I was wrong. So your right it doesnt always snow in april but i will continue telling people that because its not a big surprise when it does.

[East Detroit]

No wonder no one wants to live here. Snow in April = sad. Snow during Holy Week in mid-late April = sacrilege.

This isn't holy week.

That's not the same as "always".

It doesn't always snow in February, either.

[sumas]

My business is gardening and landscape. Not sure why my partner and I said lets not work on Monday. Good call!

[Meddle]

This discusses April snowfalls beyond April 10th: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display...=9964&source=0

I seem to remember an 8" snowfall in early April sometime in the late 80's or early 90s, but I can't find anything on it.

I guess it could have been '82, but I thought it was later than that.

Most of you should remember 2009, 2003 and 2005 though: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/dtx/display_...le=snowapr.htm

[sumas]

72 might be about right we got 3 ft of snow in April. I remember helping Dad shovel our street. Too tired to tell the whole story but do remember a neighbor being pissed off cause we didn,t do the whole street. I remember thinking [[ I was 8) what a turd. He contributed nothing but expected loads. It was kind of cool that the neighbors co ordinated that massive shoveling

School was canceled which almost never happened. Dad made it to work and was sent home.

[313WX]

BTW, since 1881, 125 of the 131 Aprils all had at least a trace of snow in Detroit, 97 of them had measurable snow and 56 of them had measurable snow of 1" or greater.

In the Aprils it didn't snow, two of them were in top 20 snowless seasons [[1998 and 1946, and 1998 was also a top 20 warmest) and four of the Aprils were in below average seasons [[1925, 1941, 1946, 1997). One was average [[1981) and one was above average [[1999), granted 1980-1981's snowfall was mostly front-end loaded [[less than a inch fell after February) and 1/2 or 2/3 of 1998-1999 fell in January, half of which came from the blizzard. In 1980-1981 January was below average and if you were to take away the Blizzard 1998-1999 would have been below average, as the months of February and December were.

[old guy]

I'm mildly surprised that nobody's blamed Obama for the weather yet.