080415 - April 18th - and SNOW!
- This is the second time in recent weeks that we’ve simply closed the gate to our business because the weather has just been too weird to deal with. It is 2 PM on April 18th. I understand there was some snow yesterday in Seattle and that set a new record for the latest day in the year that it has ever snowed.
- This kind of thing can be very damaging to us. It is late enough in the year that many plants and trees have decided it is spring and they sent out their tender new spring shoots. Shoots that will not survive if the temperatures drop into a hard freeze tonight. We’ll just have to wait and see. With 8 acres and literally thousands of plants and trees outside, there’s nothing we can do but see what comes.
Some folks will, of course, say that this proves there is no Global Warming. But, they are deeply confused. The issue is really Global Climate change and such change is going to happen in a chaotic manner with a lot of wild swings both ways even as the average temperature rises. Is this one such swing? No one can say but I am certainly wondering about it.
