April snow.

April 2.

A drifting snow-storm, perhaps a foot deep on an average.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, April 2, 1861

April snow. See  April 2, 1852 (“The rain now turns to snow with large flakes, so soft many cohere in the air as they fall. . . . Looking up, the flakes are black against the sky. And now the ground begins to whiten.”); April 2, 1856 ("Some of the earliest plants are now not started because covered with snow. "); April 2, 1857 ("A great change in the weather. I set out apple trees yesterday, but in the night it was very cold, with snow, which is now several inches deep.”): April 2, 1860 ("Cold and windy. . . the ground slightly whitened by a flurry of snow.") See also April 6, 1852 ("Last night a snow-storm, and this morning we find the ground covered again six or eight inches deep") April 12, 1855 (“ I hear it fell fourteen or fifteen inches deep in Vermont.”); April 13, 1852 ("Snowed all day, till the ground was covered eight inches deep."); April 15, 1854 ("Snow and snowing; four inches deep."); April 19, 1854 (“This is the fifth day that the ground has been covered with snow.”); April 21, 1857 ("It snows hard all day. If it did not melt so fast, would be a foot deep."); April 27, 1858 (“Snows hard in afternoon and evening. Quite wintry. About an inch on ground the next morning.”); April 26, 1860 {“ A man came from Lincoln last night with an inch of snow on the wheels of his carriage”)