Has April been a strange one for you so far this year?

It sure has around here. Right now it should be about 60 to 65°, it’s maybe 40 degrees and sleeting like crazy. Sunday night I had to cover up my hosta plants because the temperature overnight was going to drop into the 20s.

By this time most trees around here are normally starting to leaf out pretty well, hardly any of them are doing anything right now this year.

But then there will be random very warm days mixed in like in the high 70s and low 80s so everything is very confused.

It’s like Mother Nature has gone completely schizophrenic.

Climate change.

We are six-seven weeks behind for spring here… I’m hoping it breaks this weekend.

It’s fucking with all my fruit plants/trees.

It's been pretty erratic here, snowed yesterday, but that's fairly common for Michigan this time of year.

Been a steady roll from the pacific NW to the east cost of cyclonic air masses every week for the past six weeks.

Been watching them go by the middle of America like Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade balloons.

The bring cold air from the north down the west side to the south and pull warm moist air out of the Gulf and make a mess from East Texas up to Michigan and then it rolls east making a mess.

Going to do this for several more weeks.

It's sort of like hurricane seasons where they just keep running the same path.

Wildfires are likely to be really bad and far and wide as well.

I watched this on radar. Had about 30 seconds of flurries last evening N. Kentucky. Friday through Sunday will be 80 degrees. All over the map this year.

The high was 95° last Wednesday. It got up to 66° today. The pollen count has been way up there.

Enjoying spring in San Antonio Texas.

Had a half inch or so of wet snow overnight.
Sprwinter!

PASig, what you describe is the norm in these parts.

Spring has definitely not yet, sprung.

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Originally posted by Ronin1069:
Spring has definitely not yet, sprung.

Has the grass riz?

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Spring has sprung
The grass has riz;
I wonder where
Them daisies is.

flashguy

It's been back and forth here, we had some nice days in the 60's a week ago but then it cooled down again. Right now at 6pm it's 32 with wet snow falling but tomorrow it's supposed to reach upper 50's, 60's Friday, and 70 Sat, Sun, and Monday. Then back to highs in the 40's.

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Originally posted by ridewv:
It's been back and forth here, we had some nice days in the 60's a week ago but then it cooled down again. Right now at 6pm it's 32 with wet snow falling but tomorrow it's supposed to reach upper 50's, 60's Friday, and 70 Sat, Sun, and Monday. Then back to highs in the 40's.

Same kind of forecast for Central Ohio, can't remember a year like this. I should be mowing grass and looking for the first morels, but still burning the wood stove.

^^^^^ A new Ice Age is beginning. We were warned about it in 1970.

flashguy

Yes, more randomness of Mother Nature.

Last Spring there was an early warmup, the apple trees blossomed early, then froze. The way things are going this year, unlikely to happen. The blossoms are nowhere in sight yet, tucked inside.

Usually April 1st the tree swallows show up, a sure sign of Spring. This year, I’ve only seen them one day maybe, distinctive ‘tweet’. I’m not sure how far back they fly with cold snaps. They only eat flying insects. One year I found one expired in the bird house during a cold snap. That bird had a band from the previous year, 15 miles North of me.

Been hot here. Hit the mid-90s yesterday which is kind of early for that even for here. Been very dry with humidity around 8-12% for days at a time. It’s typically windy here but this spring has been especially bad.

Nothing to worry about. Simply Mother Nature going through menopause..

Yup, same here. Frost warning yesterday and they say up to 80 by Friday. I just hope we don't go from winter to summer.

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Originally posted by Bassamatic:
Yup, same here. Frost warning yesterday and they say up to 80 by Friday. I just hope we don't go from winter to summer.

I think that is what is going to happen around here. Happened last year, we had what I called “a year without Spring”.

Was chilly and miserable and cold and then Bammmm it was July in May/June. We never had a Spring.

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Originally posted by CQB60:
Nothing to worry about. Simply Mother Nature going through menopause..

Or any guy’s midlife crisis.
It’s all over the place here, too.