# WTF? WTF? WTF? Blizzard in April?!?! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 11, 2007, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-wtf-wtf-blizzard-in-april/399660 "2007-04-11T16:45:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-wtf-wtf-blizzard-in-april/399660/1 "2007-04-11T16:45:47Z")
I am looking outside my window at work and all I see is near whiteout blizzard conditions. In fuking APRIL! It’s SPRING god damn it! April _showers_ bring May _flowers_! The best I can hope for is April blizzard brings May Eddie Izzard. Fuck Fuck Fuck. I even put the show shovel and the salt away. Good thing I haven’t planted anything outside. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-wtf-wtf-blizzard-in-april/399660/2 "2007-04-11T16:47:22Z")
To live in Iowa, and suffer a blizzard as well? Our hearts go out to you. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-wtf-wtf-blizzard-in-april/399660/3 "2007-04-11T16:55:00Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] To live in Iowa, and suffer a blizzard as well? Our hearts go out to you. [/QUOTE] No kidding. That’s like misery on top of agony. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-wtf-wtf-blizzard-in-april/399660/4 "2007-04-11T16:57:38Z")
45 degrees Celsius – that’s 113 degrees Fahrenheit – here every day right now, with high humidity. The only thing I can think of that would be worse than that is snow. Brrrrrr. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-wtf-wtf-blizzard-in-april/399660/5 "2007-04-11T17:06:38Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] To live in Iowa, and suffer a blizzard as well? Our hearts go out to you. [/QUOTE] Hearts nothin’, send emergency supplies… like a real New York pizzaria pizza… and I’m sure Philly cheese steaks would be much appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-wtf-wtf-blizzard-in-april/399660/6 "2007-04-11T17:16:35Z")
So, what’s the over-under on someone citing this as evidence that there’s no such thing as Global Warming? ---
**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 11, 2007, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-wtf-wtf-blizzard-in-april/399660/7 "2007-04-11T17:21:57Z")
This is evidence that there is no such thing as Global Warming. There, happy? 😃 You know, all this climate change stuff makes me happy I live where I live; we’re getting shitty weather too, but at least we’re used to it. We don’t plant until the end of May here (the Victoria Day long weekend - May 21 this year). I have been to many a May Long Weekend barbecue that we froze our butts off in cold rain, sleet, and snow. ---
**Author:** ![essell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/34f0e0/32.png) [@essell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/essell)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-wtf-wtf-blizzard-in-april/399660/8 "2007-04-11T17:22:09Z")
We got clear blue skies in March and April ? WTF ? I’ve had the windows open for the last three days and sitting around in my underwear. What happened to April Showers ? ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-wtf-wtf-blizzard-in-april/399660/9 "2007-04-11T17:24:16Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] This is evidence that there is no such thing as Global Warming. There, happy? 😃 [/QUOTE] Dammit! Didn’t even have time to call my bookie! 😃 ---
**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 11, 2007, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-wtf-wtf-blizzard-in-april/399660/10 "2007-04-11T17:30:13Z")
Sorry - give me a head’s up next time, and we’ll see what we can work out. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-wtf-wtf-blizzard-in-april/399660/11 "2007-04-11T17:37:18Z")
We went from 85 degree days here to 18 degree nights within about 3 or 4 days, which seems to have killed two new trees we planted. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-wtf-wtf-blizzard-in-april/399660/12 "2007-04-11T17:37:32Z")
And here I was thinking it was going to be [this story about Blizzard](http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/10/124218&threshold=3). If it’s any consolation, it was 80 degrees here yesterday with a nonstop 20+ MPH east wind. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-wtf-wtf-blizzard-in-april/399660/13 "2007-04-11T17:40:26Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] Sorry - give me a head’s up next time, and we’ll see what we can work out. 😉 [/QUOTE] Heeeeey. Are you two trying to fix the odds? :dubious: On second thought, it seems unlikely. People around here are _way_ too odd to be fixed. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![seenidog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@seenidog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seenidog)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-wtf-wtf-blizzard-in-april/399660/14 "2007-04-11T17:55:43Z")
No kidding, April is always good for a flurry or two, but this is freaking ridiculous. Banks and business are closing all over the place. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-wtf-wtf-blizzard-in-april/399660/15 "2007-04-11T19:19:20Z")
We’re expecting up to a foot tonight. I like snow. ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-wtf-wtf-blizzard-in-april/399660/16 "2007-04-11T19:29:06Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] 45 degrees Celsius – that’s 113 degrees Fahrenheit – here every day right now, with high humidity. The only thing I can think of that would be worse than that is snow. Brrrrrr. [/QUOTE] Thanks for making me feel better about the weather, I’d choose the snow and -45 Celsius over that heat/humidity. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-wtf-wtf-blizzard-in-april/399660/17 "2007-04-11T19:38:18Z")
Hey this ain’t anything special! [http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mkx/wiwx.php](http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mkx/wiwx.php) > [@](#): > > **Unseasonably early and late snow - October 19-20, 1989 and May 10, 1990**. > > The winter season of 1989-90 was bracketed by 2 heavy, wet snows in eastern and southeastern Wisconsin. Milwaukee recorded 6.3 inches of snow on October 19th and 20th that coated power lines and trees still full of fall foliage. The weight of the snow dropped trees and power lines, cutting off power to eight thousand residents. > > The same situation occurred on May 10th, 1990 when 6 to 8 inches of snow fell in a band that extended from southern Oconto county, to northern Racine and Walworth counties. Trees, with their spring leaves sprouting, caught more of the snow than if they had been bare. Again, the weight of the wet snow, accompanied by 35 mph winds, snapped tree limbs and power lines. 30,000 customers were without power for two days, with damage totaling $4 million dollars. ---
**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-wtf-wtf-blizzard-in-april/399660/18 "2007-04-11T19:41:05Z")
It’s just really windy, chilly, damp and miserable here in SW Missouri. We should be in the 70’s this time of year. We had a few flurries over the weekend, but none stuck on the ground. What a freaky spring, eh? I grew up in the Milwaukee WI area, and I remember a notably huge blizzard ocurring around the second week of April, 1973. Anyone else remember that storm? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-wtf-wtf-blizzard-in-april/399660/19 "2007-04-11T19:43:39Z")
This on top of the freaking frost we had in the middle of August (AUGUST!!) last summer that killed all my plants… Please either give us a spring or a summer! 9 months of winter and 3 months of sweltering muggy heat are not conducive to tomato gardening! P.S. Aside from the crappy weather, I quite enjoy living in the midwest. And BTW, **fluiddruid** , if I feel like a proper slice of pizza, I can always visit my friends in _Chicago_. 😛😃 ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-wtf-wtf-blizzard-in-april/399660/20 "2007-04-11T20:02:29Z")
[QUOTE=Ponder Stibbons] Heeeeey. Are you two trying to fix the odds? :dubious: [/QUOTE] Nobody better try to fix me. First one of youz I see with a scalpel, my friend Bobby B puts a hollow-point in the brainpan (and the dryer behind you). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-wtf-wtf-blizzard-in-april/399660.md?page=2)