Utah in the springtime

I really love Utah in the springtime. This spring in particular
because the winter has really lasted. Technically it's been spring for
a couple of weeks and earlier this weekend it was nearly 20 degrees.
This morning we awoke to below zero temps and about 10cm of fresh snow
on the ground. By this afternoon a lot of it had melted and by
tomorrow it will all be gone again. It's nice because it's delaying
the onset of the insufferably hot weather. It's bad because late snow
like this is terribly destructive to the trees. There were lots of
branches down this morning but I think we got lucky this time. All our
trees seemed to hold up.
The other reason we sort of need a long cool spring is because this
year we have the highest snowpack in recorded history. If it warms up
quick, we are going to see really bad flooding. In the early 80s when
they had the previous highest snowpack, downtown flooded and the great
salt lake came up so high that they built pumps in the west desert to
pump it out in case it ever got that high again. Hope they kept up the
maintenance on them. We might need them this year. So roll on a long
cool spring and preferably a cool summer like we had last year. No 40
degree days suits me just fine.

Comments

Mark N. said…
It snowed one day in May a few years ago, that is proof that global warming is a lie...

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