Late spring in the north

[Stan Gorodenski]

p.s. Ken, you might plan ahead and start looking for other real estate,
like in Arizona, in case you have to quickly flee from the onset of the
new glacial age. I imagine it wouldnn't take very long for snow to build
to unlivably (is this a word?) high depths  (-:


Kenelm Philip wrote:
> 
>         Yesterday (5 May) I saw the first Mourning Cloaks of the spring
> in Fairbanks. The temperature was around 50F. This is 10 days later than
> the normal range of 5-25 April for the first sightings here. April was
> one of the 5 coldest Aprils in recorded history here, and had the highest
> precipitation (over 15" of snow plus rain) ever recorded in April since
> record-keeping began in 1904. All this after a very warm and dry winter...
> 
>         Today, by the way, it's snowing. A rather short spring?
> 
>                                                         Ken Philip
> 
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