Exit78 Photo of the Day #37
As the year progresses, winter weather is less and less likely. While the winter was cold, some of it very cold, especially for Arkansas, we have escaped wintry precipitation except for one snowfall that barely covered the ground. Still, we’re not totally out of the woods yet.
Then: Snow over Illinois Bayou arm of Lake Dardanelle, west-central Arkansas, February 4, 2011 (Pentax K-r )
Snow has fallen as late as early May in Arkansas. In 2013, the state had its first ever occurrence of May snow when, on May 3rd, the combination of an intrusion of unseasonably cold air and a slow-moving storm system led to a historical snow across northern Arkansas, with 5 inches at Decatur and 1.5 inches in Fayetteville. Prior to that, the latest occurrence of measurable snow was in northeast Arkansas, near the Missouri line, at Corning with 0.2 inch on April 24, 1910.
Series notes:
- The photos in this series are (usually) randomly selected from a batch of photos specifically “curated” for Exit78 Photo of the Day.
- Each photo in this series is an “original work” – a copyright term – of Michael Goad.
