Just as the landscape was starting to green, two inches of heavy, wet snow cover the lawns and shrubs this morning; only clumps of wild onion poke above the wintery blanket to celebrate this Irish Holiday. Snowfall on St. Patrick's day is certainly not unusual in the American Midwest and is downright common along the Colorado Front Range; indeed, March is the snowiest month in Denver.
Spring has been put on hold for a day but, by March, the sun is too high to allow winter to linger. Highs tomorrow should be near 60, today's snow will be but a memory and the moisture left behind will accelerate the greening.
