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Coldest, longest spring on record
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| April 22, 2011 |
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Photo by
Drexel Love |
Residents in many parts of Boundary County woke
up this morning to something you normally don't
expect to see just one week from May, snow. And
it very well looks like today might be a record
breaker. In the 130 years weather records have
been kept, the latest date recorded for reaching
60-degrees is April 22.
And it doesn't look like we're going to reach
that mark. Spokane hit 59-degrees March 31, but
that's the closest we've been. In Boundary
County, we're expecting a high today of
50-degrees.
On a positive note, the National Weather Service
predicts a nice, sunny if not quite warm weekend
in Bonners Ferry for all the Easter Egg hunts
and the many activities going on this weekend,
and, if they're correct, we could snap the
coldest spring record on Sunday, April 24, with
a temperature of 61 degrees.
But once the weekend's over, it appears, we drop
back into a weather pattern similar to what
we've been contending with for what seems like
forever, gray skies, rain and maybe even more
snow, with overnight lows dipping into the low
to mid 30s and day-time highs in the low 50s.
On April 18, the lowest temperature for the date
was broken at Mullan Pass, with a low of
19-degrees. The previous record of 20-degrees
was set in 1941.
Drexel Love, Moyie Springs, was up early taking
pictures, including the one on this page.
"By the time I got enough nerve to go out in the
rain, most of the snow was melted," she said.
"Even we can't have snow at the end of April?!
It is supposed to get nice by Sunday. Oh, wait
... they said that last week, too. Have a great
Easter!" |
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