Light snow cover and spring leaf growth May 8th

Our Warm spring weather has come to a dead halt as a late season snowfall accumulated as far south as Western Wisconsin and piled to as much as 2 inches! Friday Night into Saturday, Light to Moderate rain much of the day Friday turned to light snow during the evening Friday as temperatures dropped into the upper 30s, then the lower 30s as cold air wrapped into a fairly strong low pressure system South of the area that was tracking SE

Photo showing how elevated surfaces had the most accumulation, while the ground was too warm.

Snow in early May is not completely out of context in Western Wisconsin, but it is certainly usual, and it does not happen year after year! What is interesting is, We had No snow in March or April this Spring, but then May comes along and it snows, The last time I receive mensurable snowfall, was way back on the 23rd of February! Friday After receiving as much as an half inch of rain, Snow began to Accumulate as winds turned northerly, and temps droped from the mid 40s to the lower 30s. overnight, snow especially accumulated in Burnett and Northwest Polk counties , Snow at my location after getting 0.53″ of much needed soaking rains, managed to accumulate to a quarter inch 0.25″, mainly on elevated surfaces like cars, roofs and tree branches, making to a total water count of 0.56″

Snow covered lilac blooms May 8Th.

This will go down as the latest snowfall I’ve ever recorded in my records since I began recording weather 3 years ago in December 2007. It is also one of the latest snowfalls in recent memory according to local news stations, and in all of me or my dads memories and experience of living in Western Wisconsin, We have never seen snowfall this late in the growing season, I cannot remember even one time where we got snow at the same time that lilacs were blooming nor at the same time that all the tree leaves had emerged! An early start to spring has allowed for everything to be 2 to as much as 2 and a half weeks early, this is much of the reason what brought snow and lilacs together!

White Lilacs as seen covered early Saturday Morning.

The snow has it’s moved predominate cover in the early morning hours Saturday when temperatures were at there coolest. By 10AM the next morning, the temps quickly rose to around 40, and the snow quickly melted away.

snow covered Bleeding Hearts, another thing virtually “never” seen in the garden world!

As I was telling my family, Only in a place like Wisconsin can you get 70s and snowfall in the same 1 week time span! It was in the low 70s just 4 days ago,

Snowfall reports below.

Centuria 2.0″
N Grantsburg 1.0″
Clayton 0.25″