Winter Wonderland....In April???

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 09:22 AM

Photo suitable for a Christmas post card, except that it was taken on April 30th!!!

Prince George, B.C. - “We are three weeks to a month behind other years in reaching spring” that is according to Jos Van Hage, who says the trees haven’t started to break and that’s the latest he has seen since he arrived in Prince George in 1979.

“The earliest we have had the trees start to bud was at the end of March, now I’m not saying that’s normal but somewhere in between is for sure. This year people can still prune their trees and it is almost the 1^st of May."

Activity at garden centres is a pretty good sign of where we are "season wise", so we asked what’s happening at other Art Knapp stores? Jos says shrubs are selling on Vancouver Island, but the flowers are not. “ They have had really cool temperatures there as well.” As for the Okanagan, Jos says the store in Kamloops told him yesterday they are not selling flowering plants as well” They say there still is a chill in the area.”

The most snow that Prince George has ever received on April 30^th was back in 1959 when we received 4.1 centimeters.

Doug Lundquist of Environment Canada says, don’t despair quite yet, “The long range forecast is calling for above normal temperatures starting the week of May 8^th through to May 15^th.”

The long range forecast he says has been pretty accurate “It isn’t unusual to get snow in May” says Lundquist who grew up in the Peace, “you can get 1 or 2 centimeters in May but it usually doesn’t last for a day.”

“What happened today was there was an upper low and we predicted that it would turn and go over Alberta. It didn’t and so we have that upper low above us. “

Lundquist says by the weekend the temperature is expected to return to more normal values.

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Posted by: Death to Socialism on April 30 2008 10:08 AM

Shaping up to be yet another short, crappy PG non-summer.

Posted by: sportsman on April 30 2008 10:31 AM

Merry Xmas!

Posted by: camoose on April 30 2008 10:54 AM

It's all Gordo's fault. If he and the BC Libs had done something about cliamate change during their past 9 years in office we wouldn't be getting snow at the end of April. Hey, with thinking like that I could become a 28% wage increase politician. LOL

Posted by: diplomat on April 30 2008 11:18 AM

If Gordon and the Libs had done something about global warming (to reduce it) we would have blizzard conditions now!

Thanks, Gordon for not panicking! Isn't it every four years that elections are held in B.C.? That would make it 7 years in office, actually...

:-)

Posted by: lightgreengirl on April 30 2008 11:29 AM

We can all learn a small lesson from the weather.... It does what ever it wants regardless of what everyone else thinks. :)

Posted by: thatsaboutthesizeofit on April 30 2008 12:26 PM

IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE SNOW......MOVE!!!!!

MORE JOBS THEN, FOR ALL THE LAID OFF MILL WORKERS

Posted by: Rockin on April 30 2008 12:30 PM

S U C K S !!!!

Posted by: Death to Socialism on April 30 2008 12:46 PM

DON'T LIKE BEING AN UNEMPLOYED MILL WORKER......MOVE!!!!!!

Posted by: asdfjkl; on April 30 2008 2:46 PM

Mother Nature is clearly Bi-Polar and has not been taking her meds as of late.

Posted by: duffer on April 30 2008 5:35 PM

And there are still some idiots that believe Al Gore and David Suzuki.

Posted by: northern taxpayer on April 30 2008 5:42 PM

well if environment canada was allowed to comment (THEY ARE UNDER A GAG ORDER) and muffled as they are, cannot talk about the united states weather modification thats been going on the last number of years trying to bounce some pecipitation down to california, montana,nevada cause the canadian government knows it will be war if our rivers and lakes are diverted. they use old kc-135 tankers out of elmendorf in alaska to carry out dropping hundreds of tons of coal dust or aluminum powder to get the desired effect and has been fairly successful so far. no one has shot them down as apparantly our military is not equipped to defend this country!

Posted by: robichal on April 30 2008 5:52 PM

The weather is crappy all over,this is not unique to PG...

Posted by: justamom on April 30 2008 7:41 PM

I think the dumbist thing I heard today was some guy from the enviroment, about our region. He was trying to convince everyone how dry...it is. That we didnt have much moisture last year. Good god ..all it did was rain last summer, and snow all winter!...

Posted by: brutus on April 30 2008 11:36 PM

Enough is enough! Mother Nature can stop thes crap anytime now!

Posted by: lostfaith on May 1 2008 12:08 AM

I was standing on a lakeside beach today in a T shirt flyfishing for rainbow trout on Vancouver Island.

Posted by: robichal on May 1 2008 7:34 AM

lostfaith, you so lucky to be on holidays!!!

Posted by: justamom on May 1 2008 9:43 AM

light green girl-kinda sounds like our government !