March 28, 2010 - Last Snow

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Signs of spring are appearing here and there. Temperatures have warmed from winter lows and by the middle of this week we will reach the average date for the last snowfall of the season. That’s not to say we won’t have more snow. Back on April 5, 2006, we had two inches of snow in north central Pennsylvania. In early April 2003, a snowstorm brought us almost four inches of snow. On April 9, 2000, we had almost two inches of snow. One of the latest April snows was on April 28 in 1928. Philadelphia was hit with a storm that dropped 14 inches of snow. The opposite extreme happened in 2009. We had no measurable snow after Feb. 19, resulting in a snow drought. Will we have more snow or not this spring? I guess only time will tell.

This is PPL's naturalist, Jon Beam, with the Nature Notebook for WVIA.