If April Showers bring May flowers, what do May showers bring?

I think we would all agree that May showers bring fast-growing grass. Actually, the trees are very well fed and have produced a very healthy covering of leaves. The flowering trees are very nice this May too. 

Looking back to a very dry spring last year it is a pleasing change. Pine Crick is beautiful too. Everyone now can get one’s lawn mower out and use them on a weekly basis.

This May we received 5.38″ of rain last year we measured 1.59″. The combined reading for April and May is 11.16″.  We recorded measurable rain for 20 days in May. That, of course means you could only mow for 11 days. The mornings were mostly cloudy with temperatures in the 40s and 50s. However on the morning of May 31 it was a cool 34 to 37 degrees in town and in the suburbs (West Pike).

We had 17 foggy mornings, 4 thunderstorms and one damaging wind storm.

Summer begins in 3 weeks.  Have a good summer and keep on mowing. Potter County looks like it is well mowed from one end to the other. 

Henry W. Lush   

National Weather Service Observer