Spring Snow — 2018 edition

Spring snow. It seems to happen fairly often around here. We just had a May storm that dropped snow on the new crab apple blossoms. I’ve written similar blogs before in 2014 and 2015 and there have been other events in recent years.

The NWS recently posted a tweet that shows 54 years out of 118 (46%) have had snow in May. So—not rare at all. Quite pretty, in fact.

Here are a few images of the snow sitting on crab apple and forsythia blossoms plus the not-quite-blooming iris.

Snow and crab apple blossoms.
Snow and crab apple blossoms.
Snow and forsythia blossoms.
Snow and forsythia blossoms.
New snow on iris.
New snow on iris.

Most of the snow was gone by afternoon. The next morning we did a trail run up Schultz Creek Trail. It’s a shady location and there were still patches of snow. After many weeks of running on dry, dusty trails the damp trail that morning was fun.

Trail run on Schultz Creek Trail.
Trail run on Schultz Creek Trail.