6 April 2024

This week March went out like a lamb and April got here in like a lion.

After photographing home flowers Easter morning I traveled out to Independence Marsh in Beaver County. I didn’t discover my goal fowl, rusty blackbirds, however I did discover spring flowers. Dutchmans breeches, cutleaf toothwort, bloodroot () above and the primary tiny bloom on taking pictures star () beneath.

As quickly as March was over, issues went improper. I ought to have identified once I noticed this troubled sky of mammatus clouds on Saturday, 30 March. Not a superb signal.

It rained and rained and rained on April 1-3, setting a report of two.68 inches on April 2. Streams and basements have been hit arduous whereas the rain was falling. The rivers rose, as proven at at Duck Hole on 4 April with the Monongahela River at parking zone stage. (extra flood photographs and movies right here)

Later that very same day, Thursday 4 April, the temperature fell and so did graupel.

At the moment it’s chilly however the precipitation has lastly stopped.

In the meantime ….Keep in mind these stunning tulips I posted final Sunday, Easter morning?

And keep in mind the deer I noticed between two highrises in Oakland on 24 March?

Properly, the 2 met up and the tulips didn’t fare nicely.

That was on N Neville Avenue. Right here’s N Craig Avenue.

Deer injury has come to the “asphalt jungle.”

(photographs by Kate St. John)