Spring Snow

After almost 70 degree weather on Monday, the weather people predicted four days of cooler and rainier weather "with a chance of a dusting on the valley floors". Instead, we woke up to 9 inches of overnight snow and no power for 3 hours because of downed powerlines and tree limbs.

We thought that "spring" was in the air. Flowers were blooming, cherry and apple trees were blossoming. Grass was greening.

There were a number of trees damaged - too much weight on new branches (and sometimes old branches). We lost a lot of tree blossoms. The flowers however will all recover. They are pretty hardy this time of year. The more delicate flowers seemed to know to wait a while.

Some of the worst problems were at BYU. They had a tent set up outside for food service. The tent came down, bending the aluminum poles pretty badly.

The forecast (if we can believe it) is for 70s next week. Someone did a survey of Utah weather forecasts and found that the accuracy rate was about 25%. I don't think I would have lasted long at Penn State if I was wrong 3/4 of the time!