Weather rambling — April 1894
The joy of an early spring was clouded with dust at the opening of April 1894.
“The wind blew a gale at intervals yesterday. At such times the air was full of dust, and those who were outdoors found the condition anything but aggregable,” The Morning Star of Glens Falls reported on April 2. “Isn’t it time that the street sprinkler was pressed into service?”
Farmers, meanwhile, were turning over dirt.
“The farmers in the vicinity of Kingsbury Street and West Mountain have begun plowing,” The Morning Star reported on April 6.
It was not the end of winter-like weather.
“Several inches of snow fell here on Tuesday night and Wednesday,” the Stony Creek correspondent reported in The Morning Star on April 9.
“The weather clerk has revised the order of things. If a change for warm weather does not come soon, April will lay March on the shelf,” the North Creek correspondent reported in The Morning Star on April 14.
The cold did not last long.
“The weather yesterday was strongly reminiscent of August, and passing wagons covered everything with a cloud of dust. Nature is almost at a standstill now, but a warm rain will start things growing,” The Morning Star reported on April 18.
“Sewing oats and working on the roads is the order of the day. … Sunday was a perfect day, as perfect as one could wish for. In the afternoon hundreds were out taking their first stroll of the season, although the dust made such a pastime somewhat unpleasant,” The Granville Sentinel reported on Aug. 20.
“The first thunder shower of the season occurred here yesterday and was a very welcome visitor,” the Fort Edward correspondent reported in The Morning Star on April 21.
“The rainstorms Saturday and yesterday were welcomed by townspeople as well as farmers. Nature will now take a fresh start,” The Morning Star reported on April 23.
“Farmers are busy getting in their crops in this fine weather,” the Raceville correspondent reported in The Granville Sentinel on April 27, 1894. “The farmers are about through sewing oats. Rather more than the usual average are sown. Potato planting is now the order of the day,” the South Hartford correspondent reported.
In other April weather news collected from historical newspapers of the region:
1890
“Farmers are only waiting for the water to soak away to begin work. There is no frost in the ground.” the Glen’s Falls Messenger reported on April 4.
“The heaviest snowfall of the season is now melting off the ground in the Adirondacks. At one time there was perhaps a foot of snow on the ground, but it is all going rapidly,” the Messenger reported on April 11.
“The mud is drying up and the going is getting better,” the Hebron correspondent reported in The Granville Sentinel on April 11.
The weather tuned ideal by the end of the month.
“Last week was one of the finest farmers could wish for doing work,” The Granville Sentinel reported on April 25. “The grass is green, the buds are bursting, the tree toad croaks severely and The Sentinel’s circulation increases. Nature and intelligence walk hand in hand.”
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