# Snow on April First? You must be joking! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 1, 2011, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-on-april-first-you-must-be-joking/576755 "2011-04-01T11:23:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-on-april-first-you-must-be-joking/576755/21 "2011-04-01T18:32:36Z")
No, and stop calling me Sh…wait, nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-on-april-first-you-must-be-joking/576755/22 "2011-04-01T18:33:34Z")
Ah. I didn’t move here until 1980, so that would explain why I don’t remember it. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-on-april-first-you-must-be-joking/576755/23 "2011-04-01T18:36:42Z")
We’ve got a big dump of snow pencilled in for this weekend, too. Blech. I have to go out and re-bury the irises that are trying to start growing. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-on-april-first-you-must-be-joking/576755/24 "2011-04-01T18:47:00Z")
when I lived in Northern Vermont, I remember a huge snowstorm around Mother’s Day. Early 70’s. ---
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-on-april-first-you-must-be-joking/576755/25 "2011-04-01T20:22:18Z")
Last year we got more snow here (NE Ontario) in one day in May than we did for the entire month of March. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-on-april-first-you-must-be-joking/576755/26 "2011-04-01T22:50:31Z")
We got about 2 inches and it stayed on the ground all day. Hooray! I love snow. I was just thinking my chances were shot of seeing any more this year, too. I was very happy, to say the least. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-on-april-first-you-must-be-joking/576755/27 "2011-04-02T00:00:05Z")
April 1st? The latest I can remember snow here in Schenectady was May 7 (in 1977). ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-on-april-first-you-must-be-joking/576755/28 "2011-04-02T01:51:22Z")
I’ve probably said this before, but Calgary has had snow in every month of the year. This weekend, we’re supposed to get something like 25 cms of snow, and then it will be 10ºC on Monday and melt it all. Why it can’t be 10º during the weekend and we just have rain, I don’t know. I suspect Mother Nature hates us. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-on-april-first-you-must-be-joking/576755/29 "2011-04-02T02:34:50Z")
Mother Nature hates you, therefore you get snow? Does not compute. That’s like saying “My boyfriend hates me, therefore he gives me chocolate and foot massages.” ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-on-april-first-you-must-be-joking/576755/30 "2011-04-02T02:40:58Z")
Went skiing today. Going skiing tomorrow. Yay snow! ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-on-april-first-you-must-be-joking/576755/31 "2011-04-02T02:53:28Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > Snow on April First? You must be joking! [MotherNature] “Kadaji, I never joke about my work.” [/MotherNature] 😃 Big snow flakes drifting lazily to melt on bright green lawns. Leafless trees, their bark soaked dark brown in a cold wet wind. White wool sweatered parents, uniformed, red cheeked and laughing kids running to school to ‘make it before the bell’. March stayed an extra day for me today. (I’ll miss you until next year too.) > [@OpalCat](#): > > Mother Nature hates you, therefore you get snow? Does not compute. That’s like saying “My boyfriend hates me, therefore he gives me chocolate and foot massages.” Smart man. He’s learned not to wait til 3 to say ‘Hi, Opal!’. May he discover all the praise that Lindt, Godiva, or Harry&David have to offer. (C’mon. You would have dumped him if he couldn’t give a decent foot massage…) ---
**Author:** ![apollonia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2bfe46/32.png) [@apollonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apollonia)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-on-april-first-you-must-be-joking/576755/32 "2011-04-02T03:05:21Z")
Terrific. 20cm of snowfall in one day. It was ten yesterday. With wet snow continuing through tomorrow. Which will all promptly melt as soon as it rains one drop. Anyone who likes the snow may come and get it at cost. We are tired of it, and the flooding that will ensue shortly will not make things any better. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-on-april-first-you-must-be-joking/576755/33 "2011-04-02T03:30:25Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > Smart man. He’s learned not to wait til 3 to say ‘Hi, Opal!’. May he discover all the praise that Lindt, Godiva, or Harry&David have to offer. (C’mon. You would have dumped him if he couldn’t give a decent foot massage…) Actually I was being hypothetical. I’m married. To a foot doctor, no less, so he sure should know enough about feet to give a decent massage. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-on-april-first-you-must-be-joking/576755/34 "2011-04-02T08:58:06Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Went skiing today. Going skiing tomorrow. Yay snow! Enjoy. My plans for getting the golf clubs out and practicing are shot. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-on-april-first-you-must-be-joking/576755/35 "2011-04-02T11:42:49Z")
We were expecting 6-14 inches yesterday. All the weather people were saying, “No, it’s not an April Fool’s joke, we’re really getting a big dump!” What happened? A dusting only. Not even an inch. “April Fool!” Actually, I’m glad it came to nothing, as we were traveling yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-on-april-first-you-must-be-joking/576755/36 "2011-04-02T12:29:20Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Went skiing today. Going skiing tomorrow. Yay snow! Running today, skiing tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-on-april-first-you-must-be-joking/576755/37 "2011-04-02T20:28:13Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > Running today, skiing tomorrow. Yup. My Wife and a friend are snowshoeing behind the house. I dug the grill out and will be cooking burgers on the deck when they get back. When I can get to the grill, it’s spring. So that’s good news. It’s not even May. We have a lot of snow to come. Rockin in the Rockies. 11,200 feet. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-on-april-first-you-must-be-joking/576755/38 "2011-04-02T21:43:16Z")
Had sun most of the day (April 2), but within two ski runs we had snow, rain, hail and sun. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-on-april-first-you-must-be-joking/576755/39 "2011-04-02T22:56:04Z")
Damn near 85° in Denver today. It is hot! 2-4" of snow predicted for tomorrow night. Springtime in the Rockies. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-on-april-first-you-must-be-joking/576755/40 "2011-04-03T13:34:49Z")
♩"It’s beginning to look a lot like Chirstmas!" ♫ ♪ Gosh, don’t you love this time of year? The big fluffy snow that’s been falling for a day, the hoar frost on the trees when you wake up. It just gives you that warm, expectant feeling - it won’t be long until the jolly old elf shows up himself. Kids are getting excited, and of course, people in the streets say “Merry Christmas” to each other as they pass, even people they don’t know, just because it’s the season and they’re feeling all Dickens-y. How many days to Christmas is it exactly? [Piper checks calendar.] WTF? [Piper descends into gloom.] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-on-april-first-you-must-be-joking/576755.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-on-april-first-you-must-be-joking/576755.md?page=3)