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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 chook, rusty blackbirds, however I did discover spring flowers. Dutchmans breeches, cutleaf toothwort, bloodroot () above and the primary tiny bloom on capturing star () beneath.
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As quickly as March was over, issues went incorrect. I ought to have identified after I noticed this troubled sky of mammatus clouds on Saturday, 30 March. Not a great signal.
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It rained and rained and rained on April 1-3, setting a document of two.68 inches on April 2. Streams and basements had been hit onerous whereas the rain was falling. The rivers rose, as proven at at Duck Hole on 4 April with the Monongahela River at car parking zone degree. (extra flood pictures and movies right here)
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Later that very same day, Thursday 4 April, the temperature fell and so did graupel.
At this time it’s chilly however the precipitation has lastly stopped.
In the meantime ….Keep in mind these stunning tulips I posted final Sunday, Easter morning?
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And keep in mind the deer I noticed between two highrises in Oakland on 24 March?
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Effectively, the 2 met up and the tulips didn’t fare nicely.
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That was on N Neville Avenue. Right here’s N Craig Avenue.
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Deer harm has come to the “asphalt jungle.”
(pictures by Kate St. John)
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