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It's 33.3°F (0.7°C) right now and snowing. Our high today was 37.6°F (3.1°C) before the snow, but even so, we're running well below average and the meteorologists weren't joking about today's round of tripe. The current prediction is 1-3" (3-8 cm) today and tomorrow. And not only are we seeing snow, but the forecast low tonight is a fail whale 18°F (-8°C).
There are assorted downgrades in the extended forecast, too. Forecasts past 5 days are of course highly unreliable, but they at least give a general impression of what the weather is going to be like. AccuWeather's forecast goes out to 6 July, and even though our average high on 6 July is 83°F (28°C), the warmest temperature in the whole bloody forecast is 78°F (26°C).
Our total monthly rainfall is at 0.37". And yet, somehow, almost every day has had a trace amount of rain and/or snow. If it's going to precipitate, it should actually precipitate. I'm sick of our method of raining in the winter months (used liberally) where it can rain all day and add up to 0.1" (2.5 mm). It should rain for an hour, bring us half an inch (13 mm), and then stop. And it should do this twice a week during our growing season so that the plants can turn green and then maintain that colour. Not this "oh, I guess I'll rain a tenth of an inch in this area, but spread it out across the whole day" nonsense.
I'd estimate we've seen an inch or so of snow so far from this system. It's accumulating everywhere, and it looks more like winter right now than it did during much of this winter. It's currently 31.3°F (-0.4°C) and the snow keeps coming down hard, and the visibility is very low right now too. I'm getting scared that this summer will be weak and disappointing, especially considering the forecast. Not what we need after having only a semi-decent summer in 2015 and a complete fail in 2014.
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Another day that was 10 degrees below average, average high reaches 71 this weekend, . By beginning of may we will have climbed to 76 for the first day of may for the average high. I still think the second half of April will bring more normal weather, kind of like the February pattern we had. UV index in the past few days has climbed to 8. Tired of this lame crap, el nino weakens and the pattern of 2015 and 2014 returns lmao. Western ridging, epo block, 2015 and 2014 pattern again. I already hear it, reminds me of 2013, when after the mild winter the cooler spring brought headlines such as that were stuck on saying that since the spring was cold the following winter would be freezing and all that crap, wonder if we will see more headlines like that this April.
Funny, yesterday it was about 60 F and raining and I was thinking this would be a fairly common summer day in my dream climate lol.
Lol nice, 60 F and rainy wouldn't be uncommon in my dream climate either. Matter of fact in the fringes of the season (early June and late August) 40-50 F and rainy isn't too uncommon either.
Though I would like to make the average high during the height of summer warmer in my climate. It's 75 F now, maybe I should make it 80-81 F?
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Our high today was 37.6°F (3.1°C) before the snow, but even so, we're running well below average and the meteorologists weren't joking about today's round of tripe. The current prediction is 1-3" (3-8 cm) today and tomorrow. And not only are we seeing snow, but the forecast low tonight is a fail whale 18°F (-8°C). 
I'm getting scared that this summer will be weak and disappointing, especially considering the forecast. Not what we need after having only a semi-decent summer in 2015 and a complete fail in 2014.
