It was a cold day yesterday, but that wasn't the concern. It was the predicted snow fall overnight and today. The probability is that the spring blossom show will be interrupted and diminished.
So I went to Niagara Street, in St. Catharines, to the fabulous weeping Cherry tree and the ancient Magnolias out front. All in perfect bloom. There were orchards starting to bloom along the route, so we'll see what the results are today.
April's average snowfall is between 1 to 3 days. And there have been big snow storms in late April. This snowfall forecast is 10 to 15 cm - so while substantial enough and perhaps exasperating in a COVID year, it doesn't fall into the record range.
Here's one from 1976 in Orangeville north of Toronto:
"If you think the cold weather we’ve been getting lately (2018) is bad, this would have been even more annoying for Dufferin County residents preparing for spring back in 1976.
This "From the past" feature traces back to a two-day stretch from April 24 to 25 in 1976, when Old Man Winter blanketed the Orangeville area with more than 20 cm of snow.
Although 10 cm of snow fell on April 23, 1963, the snowfall event succeeding it 13 years later goes down as “the granddaddy of them all,” explained Environment Canada senior climatologist David Phillips."
Here's a substantial moment in Hamilton: on April 9, 1979, when 29.2 centimetres of snow fell on Hamilton. I think that was reported by David Phillips, as well. He was Canada's Chief Meteorologist for many years. He's listed in the Government of Canada contact site so he must still work there - he's 76 years old.
Let's see how the day and week unfold weatherwise. I wonder what David Phillips would say, with his many decades of experience and knowledge.
Here are a few pictures of the tree - you can see the changing light caused by the lake effect clouds. Sunny, partly sunny, cloudy, gloomy - all in the space of an hour.
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