It is getting on towards 4 weeks after the Spring Equinox, and winter just will not let go, especially in North America. Nevertheless, the point at which warmth is defeating cold this year has been reached.
https://ccin.ca/ccw/snow/current Snow Cover Extent and Mass as at 15 April 2020
North AmericaAn interesting contrast on display.
North America Snow Cover Extent (SCE) - it snowed, a vast swathe of thin new snow in the Central USA. (Already starting to melt).
But at the same time Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) drops like a stone from its very high levels.
Eurasia
The snow drought in much of Europe has nearly ended, simply because (apart from Norway etc) there is almost no snow expected, nor is there a lot left.
In Asia both SCE and SWE declining strongly, SCE glued to 1 SD below average, SWE a bit more than 1 SD above average.. (no images attached).
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ps: Snowfall on Greenland (SMB) at this moment in time remains significantly below average.
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pps Spring Has Sprung....perhaps not in the Yukon?
If ever I saw blessing in the air
I see it now in this still early day
Where lemon-green the vaporous morning drips
Wet sunlight on the powder of my eye.
Blown bubble-film of blue, the sky wraps round
Weeds of warm light whose every root and rod
Splutters with soapy green, and all the world
Sweats with the bead of summer in its bud.
If ever I heard blessing it is there
Where birds in trees that shoals and shadows are
Splash with their hidden wings and drops of sound
Break on my ears their crests of throbbing air.
Pure in the haze the emerald sun dilates,
The lips of sparrows milk the mossy stones,
While white as water by the lake a girl
Swims her green hand among the gathered swans.
Now, as the almond burns its smoking wick,
Dropping small flames to light the candled grass;
Now, as my low blood scales its second chance,
If ever world were blessed, now it is.
April Rise Laurie Lee