OOPS!!!

‘Freak’ spring storm dumps record 58 cms of snow on Gander, Newfoundland

Sarah Boesveld

Newfoundlanders hoping to camp and barbecue their way through the Victoria Day long weekend were instead buried under a record 58 centimetres of snow as a “freak” storm hit on Saturday.

Last year’s May 2-4 weekend was sunny and hot in Gander, NL — the hardest hit area — and residents were hoping for more of the same. But as the weather forecast called for snow on a drizzly Friday, people started making other plans.

“It was saying we were going to have 10 to 15 or 15 to 25. And of course everybody’s like ‘Nah, we’re not going to have that,’” said Jo-Ann Granville, the manager at Fraser’s Pub in Gander who decided not to brush snow off her car Monday morning and just flagged a taxi to work.

You’ve got to take what falls out of the sky.

Double that amount of wet, heavy snow covered green grass, tulips and trees that had already sprouted green leaves within a 36 hour period with peak snowfall Saturday night, though it began to melt on Monday as temperatures crept up above zero.
It’s one to remember, I must say.

“I couldn’t get over it. I got up Saturday morning and I was like ‘Oh, my god.’ It was like loads of it. It’s crazy.”

Read more:
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/05/20/freak-spring-storm-dumps-record-58-cms-of-snow-on-gander-newfoundland/