No snow - yet!  It got pretty cold overnight, and this morning was windy, wet and raw with temps in the low 40's.  We had to go into St. Johnsbury and it was a few degrees warmer there and didn't seem to be raining quite as much, and now we're home my outdoor thermometer is reading 49 degrees, so things are improving.  We desperately need the rain - and would even consider snow a blessing at this point.  The forecast is for cool wet weather for the rest of the week, so we may see things begin to green up more and change.  St. Johnsbury is at least a couple weeks ahead of us - trees blossoming and grass nicely green.

Here is a report from Francine Perkins:

TRAFFIC ALERT

Danville Route 2 Project

Project:  Danville FEGC 028-3(32)

 PARK STREET ACCESS CLOSURE

MONDAY & TUESDAY, April 23^rd & April 24^th

 Crews have closed Park Street to thru traffic today and will continue the closure tomorrow while working on duct banks.  Access will be provided to local traffic trying to get to homes or businesses on Park Street.  Traffic control will be present to re-route motorists to Peacham Road.

 Things looked pretty muddy and miserable in Danville this morning.  It was raining pretty hard when we went down through the village, but was better on the way back.   We don't envy those people working out there in this kind of weather - they all looked cold, even though they were bundled up with rain gear.  And of course where they are digging is all mud. 

Our road is wet, but no mud holes - however, the mud splashes up onto the car, and since Fred washed it yesterday (that's probably why we got rain late yesterday afternoon!), he took a few minutes when we got home to wash off the spatters.  I think it's a lost cause because this weather is going to be with us for at least another four days, I think.


We're going out to walk Jamie and Marie's hill in a few minutes.  The rain has let up so it's just sprinkles now, so it shouldn't be too bad.  We got about an inch yesterday and I measured another .90 inch this morning in the CoCoRaHS rain gauge.  My other gauge, the one that has a clicker that's activated when the rain builds in the gauge, shows we had just under 1.5 inches.  I don't know what that's about - it was pretty much the same time period, but perhaps just the difference in gauges.  I reported the lesser amount since that is the official measuring device.  We had strong northeast winds - my station reported a little over 10 mph, but it seems not to be in the best location for the strongest winds around here, so we'll be moving that.


Right now it is brightening up as if the sun is going to come out, so I think we'd better do our run/walk NOW.