{"id":7984,"date":"2023-04-01T11:06:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T16:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/?p=7984"},"modified":"2023-04-01T11:07:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T16:07:53","slug":"spring-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/01\/spring-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As a bit of an April Fools day meteorological joke, we were hit with a fairly severe blizzard overnight. With 8.5 inches of snow at the airport, this puts us at the third snowiest winter since records began in 1971. And this wasn&#8217;t just a blizzard, it was a <em>thunder blizzard<\/em>. Lightning and thunder accompanied the billowing snow in the evening. Our power went out for an hour or so in the night, but was miraculously back on before sunrise. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rectangular\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_6935-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_6935.jpg?resize=474%2C356&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_6935-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_6935-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_6935-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_6935-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_6935-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_6935-scaled.jpg?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_6935-scaled.jpg?w=1422&amp;ssl=1 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">View from the front door this morning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_6933-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_6933.jpg?resize=474%2C356&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_6933-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_6933-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_6933-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_6933-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_6933-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_6933-scaled.jpg?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_6933-scaled.jpg?w=1422&amp;ssl=1 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">And out back&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_6931.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" data-id=\"7981\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_6931.jpg?resize=296%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7981\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_6931.jpg?resize=296%2C300&amp;ssl=1 296w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_6931.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ominous weather alerts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/532627-20230401-rt0401snowiest-webp413.webp?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" data-id=\"7985\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/532627-20230401-rt0401snowiest-webp413.webp?resize=300%2C259&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/532627-20230401-rt0401snowiest-webp413.webp?resize=300%2C259&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/532627-20230401-rt0401snowiest-webp413.webp?w=413&amp;ssl=1 413w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Our third snowiest winter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For more details, check out this morning&#8217;s post on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2023\/04\/01\/bright-day-for-shoveling-storm-totals-plus-the-saturday-forecast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Updraft Blog<\/a> (MPR&#8217;s weather site). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a bit of an April Fools day meteorological joke, we were hit with a fairly severe blizzard overnight. With 8.5 inches of snow at the airport, this puts us at the third snowiest winter since records began in 1971. And this wasn&#8217;t just a blizzard, it was a thunder blizzard. Lightning and thunder accompanied &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/01\/spring-weather\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spring Weather<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,54],"tags":[51,57],"class_list":["post-7984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-andrew","category-photo","tag-pictures","tag-winter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_6933-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1920&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7984"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7989,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7984\/revisions\/7989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}