Same date, one year later...

[Hippona]

Pics taken same day, same place last march and today.
Bloomin mental.....

 

[Adopter]

Crazy weather, but not unusual to have snow at this time of year, just seems to have gone on for so long this winter.

Lovely pictures.

 

[Hippona]

Just the contrast from one year to the next......hopefully we will have a nice/normal summer eh?

 

[pogface]

Oh my god! What is wrong with this country...

 

[pogface]

I'd say it was pretty unusual to have snow at the end of march... Considering the clocks change next weekend!

 

[Hippona]

I know! Clocks forward = riding after work.....not building snowmen...

 

[Jesstickle]

Whilst it is not unheard of to have snow this late in the year I would humbly suggest that it certainly is unusual .

Last March was also unusual as it was abnormally warm.

I don't care what it does in March if we could just have a decent summer.

 

[Hippona]

Yeah...a dry one

 

[Pearlsasinger]

I remember having a very heavy snowfall one year even later than this, which brought down a lot of leaves and nests with eggs in - I guess abut 30 yrs ago.

 

[poiuytrewq]

Excellent comparison photos!
Its just beyond funny now
I have photo's of my daughter cantering round our grassy field last year about this time (horses still looking very clipped so cant have been much later?) Now I cant even turn out as its under water- On the good side the snow is hiding how bad the fields look

 

[Tinsel Town]

booooooooooooo. That is all.

 

[Kat]

We had snow later than this last year. The husband and I were pretty gobsmacked to come back from our hols in early April to snow.

 

[FfionWinnie]

It's not unusual at all for us to have snow at this time of year. April 2010 the day I started lambing outside. Luckily my ewes crossed their legs and nothing was born in this. There are 200 ewes in that field. Most of them out of sight! I am congratulating myself on lambing 17 days later this year, I just hope things have picked up by then!

Today

 

[lhotse]

That first picture made me want to cry. Green fields, leaves on the trees, rugless and clean horses. My field looks like a lagoon, the shetland didn't go out today because I was worried he would drown, my grey mare came in with liquid mud upto her armpits and she's still going out in a heavyweight rug because the wind is so bloody cold! Having to put hay out in the field again because there is nothing growing, and to make matters worse, the yard at the top of the hill has a strangles outbreak.
Oh, and my half marathon in the Forest of Dean tomorrow has been cancelled because there is a load of snow all over the forest.

'In like a lion, out like a lamb' ?? I think the lion had the lamb for his dinner!!

 

[Hippona]

I despair at the current state of the horses....hopefully the snow will clean off the legs. Trying to look on the bright side here. Ho hum. Off out to put yet more hay out.....

 

[mightymammoth]

unreal isn't it. looks like we will be bringing in overnight and feeding hay all this summer at this rate

 

[POLLDARK]

'In like a lion, out like a lamb' ?? I think the lion had the lamb for his dinner!![/QUOTE]

Love it, good one

 

[emmanash]

Husband showed me some photos of us same time last year, sat on the beach having a BBQ with the kids playing in the rock pools, and yes it was in England!

 

[shadowboy]

It's due to the jet stream, for the last 3 years it has been playing up and not taking its usual location in the Atlantic. It has done this before historically but it seems more frequent these days since 2007 it's barely sat where it should!

 

[FabioandFreddy]

Me and OH were only saying yesterday that this time last year we had our first BBQ of the year as it was so warm for the time of year!! Definitely prefer it being unusually warm rather than the snow and wind we have currently!