OK it is April and spring has been officially here for a couple of weeks but you would not know it by spending some time outside today. A stiff northwest wind and morning temperatures in the teens were really not what I had in mind. This afternoon the wind is still blowing and temperatures have only risen to the middle thirties. Not exactly warm even with the spring sunshine and clear skies.
That all of my clients wonder about when they ask about our winters, it is six below zero this morning with a fifteen mile per hour wind out of the north. Snow conditions are not very good in this part of the state after the warmth of last weekend what little snow we have is quite crusty. On the up side the sky is perfectly clear so we will have plenty of sun coming in the windows this morning.
Our current stretch of weather has been very wet that is for sure. A friend who raises strawberries in Warren reported 3.5 inches of rain in 24 hours and an apple farmer in Southern Maine reported over 23 inches of rain for June so far. All we can do is hope that it is not a repeat of the summer of 2009 that was an almost total wash out.
