Vintage 2020: April Weather

I have written about the April weather before. Check out these blogposts:
2019: April Update on our Buds
2018: Vintage 2018: Spring Chores
2017: Vintage Notes: April 2017
The common theme of all of the above blogposts was the rain days that we had in that year. I distinctly remember that last year, the old adage,
April showers bring May flowers, was modified by one of our friends to:
April showers bring May showers because of all of the rain that we had last spring.
So, keeping with the tradition, I decided to look back at April, 2020 to see what the rain situation was. I knew that we had a fair amount of rain, but in looking back, we had 10 days of rain in April. This is not counting the rain that occurred during the late night and early morning hours, because we were able to get into the vineyard to work.

In addition to the rain that we've had, on April 27, this past Monday, Connecticut recorded the lowest high temperature since 1917! It is no wonder that our buds have refused to come out of dormancy. Hopefully May will bring some warmer weather.