When March came in like a Lion, I was optimistic. Usually the old saying holds true and when it comes in like a Lion, it goes out like a Lamb. But this year that proved incorrect and March definitely went out like it came in. Then through April I was hopeful that we would have a nice mild spring. But the weather has remained unsettled and we had snow off and on through the month.
When I was in Nordegg from April 26 to 29, I arrived just after a dump of fresh snow, and it was still slowly melting on the afternoon of my arrival. Then over that weekend it snowed several times. Once I got back home to the city on the 29th we saw snow, and even some accumulation on April 30th. So April came and went much like the month of March did.
Now here it is the beginning of May, and once again there is yet more snow. In Edmonton it has mostly been rain with a little sleet mixed in. Up at the cottage, it seems there has been accumulation of a couple of inches. The only good part about all of this is that it will alleviate the drought conditions a little and hopefully reduce the risk of forest fires. I would much rather put up with the white stuff now, then with the smoke of forest fires through the entire summer, as we experienced last year. Here is a screen shot from the security camera up at the cottage that shows the significant accumulation on the morning of May 1st.
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