Breaks record set in 1934, and it’s merely “very unusual”?
“Nerve-Racking and Very Unusual’: Snow in May Worries Growers”,” reads the headline. in the New York Times.
“Unseasonable weather,” the article calls it.
Finally, if you bother to read through to paragraph five, comes the admission that the temperature in Worcester, Mass., had fallen to 30F (-1.1C), ” breaking the previous record of 31 set on May 9, 1934, according to the National Weather Service.
Across New York and New England, farmers and growers watched with worry on Saturday morning as a late season blast of Arctic air and even snow descended on fragile fruits and vegetables that had just begun to poke through.
In New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine, people woke up on Saturday to find snow falling. The temperature in Worcester, Mass., fell to 30 degrees, breaking the previous record of 31 set on May 9, 1934, according to the National Weather Service.
It was also snowing in Connecticut. Here’s a photo that a reader near Hartford, Alane Powell, sent to me:
As I’ve been saying for years; we’ll be fighting in the streets for food long before we’re covered by ice. Especially since this follows heavy crop damage in April, when temperatures dipped to 23F in parts of New York State, killing pear trees and damaging peaches, sweet cherries and apricots.
Doesn’t anyone understand that this is how ice ages begin?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/09/us/Farms-weather-cold-May.html
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