Imagine how the flowers must be feeling as the weather changes from beautiful 70-degree spring temperatures to winter snow showers. The April snow was everything but expected for the countless tulips, crocuses, and daffodils who found themselves beneath a white duvet Monday.
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April Snow
A massive winter-like storm dumped up to 18 inches of snow in some parts of the northeast, setting new April snowfall records in Pennsylvania and upstate New York. Elsewhere, the storm system dumped torrential rainfall, causing floods, and at least one person was killed due to the bad weather.
The water began to drain as the rain stopped Tuesday morning, and all freeway lanes were reopened around 9 a.m. EDT. Flooding hit other low-lying communities in New Jersey and Connecticut on Tuesday morning.
In the Catskill Mountain Range, Central New York and northern Pennsylvania received the most snowfall. At approximately 10 a.m. In Virgil, New York, which is roughly 125 miles west of the state capital of Albany, 18.0 inches of snow was reported by EDT Tuesday. 18.0 inches of snow was reported 150 miles northeast of Virgil at Bleecker, New York.
The greatest snowfall total in Pennsylvania was 16 inches, which occurred just south of the New York border in New Milford. Hyde Park, Vermont, just south of the Canadian border, had 8.5 inches of snow Tuesday, while Riverton, West Virginia, northeast of the state capital of Charleston, received 8.0 inches.
During the second half of the week, the cold and snowy weather in the northeast will give way to more seasonable warmth, allowing most of the snow to melt and people to put their snow shovels away for the last time.
Covering Spring Flowers with Snow
The massive snow knocked out power and shattered daily records from the mid-Atlantic to the northeast, leaving many front yards and flower beds hopelessly out of season.
In some parts of the northeast, the storm dumped as much as 18 inches of snow, while others saw their first snow (1 inch or more) in over 30 years.
Even more remarkable, temperatures in areas like Annapolis, Maryland, had surpassed 80 degrees Fahrenheit less than a week prior. Mother Nature, on the other hand, had a different plan. While many people were busy planting flowers and getting their lawnmowers ready for Easter weekend, Mother Nature had a different plan.
Thankfully, as several people on Twitter pointed out, the flowers are tough and will recover quickly. On the other hand, many others had no intention of going out and covering the plants or hauling them back inside the secure confines of their homes when the planting began just weeks before.
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