Snow in the corn fields here in central NY

Starting snowing yesterday and is coming down pretty good today.

I'm glad I held off with planting sweet corn. The soil is still in the 50s and the seed would probably just rot.

When I first came here in 1979, I moved into my house on July 1st and found out the water-line was still frozen almost four-feet down. Grass was green, leaves on trees, frogs barking and birds chirping. The frost in July was a suprise, but the house had been empty for years (no moving water).

Second year I lived at this location, in 1980, we has frost every month, including two days in August. It got blamed on the volanic eruption at Mount Saint Helens. Do you call that a "late Spring frost" or an "early Fall frost?"

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Solar panels not doing much . . .

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Just windy and cold on the Cape no snow

In the sixteen hundreds the first settlers in Lancaster NH where I come from had a frost in mid August that killed all the crops including corn, except for an area in the southern most part by the CT river. This created great hardship of course, and all the people went down to what they called the Egypt land for some corn. I don't know about you, but I am thankful for global warming. Without it the whole northeast would be uninhabitable.

JD the pics are beautiful, too bad there wasn't one Oliver in any of them!!

Actually, there are two Olivers in the pictures, but you have look real close. There's an OC3 in the barn (you can see the slow-moving sign on it), and an OC46 under the tarps by the solar panels - next to the Case 580CK and Massey Ferguson 35.

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Did you catch the Albany forcast for the weekend ? posible 80s just to our east, 70s here?? At least you got some of that "poor man's fertlizer" over night. We just had traces of snow on things. I'm going to have to drive over the ridge and look you up one of these days.

I've lived in Potsdam NY and know all about it. Yes I was there late 70's early 80's. Snowed there for my sons college graduation mid May. Now living in the Catskills and yes it was snowing today.

I'm in Western NY, about an hour SSE of Buffalo. Snowed here too. Ground was white the other morning. 35* right now, supposed to be 60+ tomorrow. That'll feel nice!

How come I do not have any of that nice yellow stuff on my 410?

Thanks for sharing!

(quoted from post at 16:27:32 04/28/10) I've lived in Potsdam NY and know all about it. Yes I was there late 70's early 80's. Snowed there for my sons college graduation mid May. Now living in the Catskills and yes it was snowing today.

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10 inches just south of Malone,NY on the 27th 28th.Going fast on the 29th.