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Democratic Watchman, April 12, 1918, page 4
A Record-Breaking Snow
There may have been years when snow fell in April but so far as the writer is able to recall the snow of this week was a record-breaker. Following Monday's rain it began to snow on Tuesday morning and snowed continuously all day. Most of the snow melted during the day but by evening the temperature dropped to below the freezing point and most of the snow that fell during the night lay on the ground and by Wednesday morning it was six inches deep. It snowed intermittently all of Wednesday and snow shovels that had been put away for the summer had to be gotten out and pavements cleaned off.
Just what the result of the snow fall will be is hard to contemplate. It will not hurt the grain nor the grass, and is not likely to do any damage to the garden truck now in the ground. The only fear is that it may affect the fruit crop. Many, trees were starting to bud, and while the snow itself, would do no damage yet the cold that accompanied the snow might have done considerable. It is to be hoped, however, that the buds were not far enough advanced to be killed.
While the snow of Tuesday and Wednesday was a record-breaker so far as the amount of it is concerned, yet it is not an unusual thing to have snow in April. In fact a record kept and published in Wednesday's Johnstown Democrat, gives the following snowfalls in April in the past sixteen years.
April 8, 1902, 4 inches
April 11 1904, 4 inches
April 10. 1907 2 inches
April 9 and 10 1916 7 inches
April 8 and 9, 1917, 1.3 inches
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