Seems like winter at last outside. Too bad we are already halfway through April at this point. Usually it starts to be the other way around during this time of the year. We start to see first patches of ground beneath the snow when the spring sun starts to melt the snow cover that has been there for months.
It's not the first time we have gotten snow this winter and it does snow occasionally during this time of the year normally too. Just the contrast between the snowless winter makes it feel so odd right now.
Despite the lack of snow throughout the winter it seems we aren't going to get an early spring after all. At least not that early. No matter how much it snows at this point the ground isn't frozen deep anyway and there wont be piles of snow to slow the spring bloom when the sun is already warming the land so much.
Hopefully this cooler weather also predates a bit cooler summer. I like it when it's warm but those heat waves and droughts like we had two years ago aren't that nice.