Average low temperature for Minneapolis in the first week of April: 32F.

Most recent date it actually dropped to freezing: March 7.

No PLace like home L.O.L. click those heels

We'll be getting a light frost tonight; this marks the first time in 33 days that Minneapolis has gone below freezing. It's also the first day since the first week of March in which we're below normal - we've been above normal every hour of the day for a solid month.

Snowflakes flying here in PGH yesterday and today.

Got down to 32 last night and heavy frost and here's the forecast for the next few days.

Gonna *REALLY* **** up a lot of people's plants and gardens.

Yup...not happy about the frost warning...gotta go to the garden and cover everything up tonight...

The ponds have recovered but it is time for some more rain, please.

Tree service guys will probably make a mint this year. Trees continue to drop limbs and dead trees need to come down. The drought last year stressed the red oaks so that they became susceptible to some sort of disease that is killing a bunch of old and big trees.

Today is a nice spring day. For the most part though, we have gone from a mild winter to early summer with very little in between. We've been using the air conditioner for over a week. This area often has a late freeze around Easter at the same time the dogwood trees bloom. Not this year. Didn't get enough cold nights to keep down the insect population. The flea beetles in the garden are tearing up the brassicas. My gardening buddy surprised me by saying that several of his fruit trees already have fruit growing.

Last year was plenty hot and dry. Time for some rain.

We had summer in March and now we are back to seasonal temps in April. It seems to alternate months. Warm January, cold Feb, warm March, colder in April. 90's in May?

Plant your garden before the end of May (up north) and you are looking for trouble. One year I planted mine the last weekend in May and woke up to 2 inches of snow the next day.