A last hurrah for winter?

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  • By Staff Sgt. Brian Hill
  • 435th Air Base Wing Public Affairs
The saying goes, 'April showers bring May flowers.' But what does April snow bring?

The wild weather the Kaiserslautern Military Community has had recently can simply be attributed to some slightly colder than usual temperatures, said Senior Airman Anne Kitchen, a forecaster/observer with the 86th Operations Support Squadron weather flight.

The KMC officially received about a half inch of snow Monday. Going by past weather records from this area, there's only a .6 percent chance of that happening here in April.

"It's definitely unusual," said Airman Kitchen, who's experiencing her first turbulent Ramstein spring this year.

The current weather system is coming out of the northwest, where moisture off the Atlantic Ocean is carried across the European continent. That's where the colder temperatures this year are bringing snow instead of rain.

Just think: in 1987, Ramstein received some trace amounts of snow in May.

But Airman Kitchen says warmer weather is on the way. The forecast for this weekend calls for a partly cloudy Saturday and Sunday - temperatures in the 50s.

"Maybe this week will be the end of the bad weather," said Airman Kitchen. "Because next week's forecast looks pretty nice!"