April has been a very strange month for much of the US. Record snows fell in northern parts of the US while some suffered strange swings from warm to cold to warm again. Here in Oklahoma, it has been much colder than usual. Our last frost date is supposed to be towards the end of March, but we've had one as recently as the 18th.

I planted some tomatoes on the 16th after seeing warmer weather in the forecast with some days as low as the upper 40's. It was 85 that day with a warm southerly wind. Imagine my surprise on the 18th to find frost on my tomato plants, killing them all. Our forecasts have been way off as, with many of the days being much colder (or warmer) than forecasted.

The above photo was taken on Tuesday when wildfires were roaring across western Oklahoma. The wind pushed the smoke all the way to our house which grayed out the skies. Temperatures in the western part of the state reached as high as 98 degrees with a strong wind making for historically high fire danger. More than 366,00 acres were burned. A few days later, the weather here dropped to the upper 20's and has gotten a half inch of rain as of this morning.

Planes can be seen daily leaving long trails in the sky. Very few days will we see truly clear skies.

This photo was taken of a sunset last night. They don't look much like rain clouds, but we are getting a ton of rain this morning. We went over 20 days here with less than 0.10" of rain so we needed it. What kind of weather will May hold for us? Hopefully we can finally get a warming trend so I can get my garden going. This coming week is forecasted to be fairly mild. We planted beans and zucchini yesterday to take advantage of the rain today. Will it be warm enough to germinate? I guess we'll have to wait and see.