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30th-31st March 1948. 
Very strong SW gale as glass recovered from its dip to 28.5 inches about dawn on 30th.


1st April 1948. 
Bright sunny intervals between terrific shower of hail, sleet & rain:  took my half-day (Thursday) & about 1:30 PM a hail shower left the grass in front garden buried in hail stones, though these melted as the [[they]] fell on the roads & pavements.


2nd April 1948. 

Another depression with steep fall in glass till 4 PM.  Wind very cold & SE in forenoon, turning SW. when glass turned & dropping.  At 5 P.M. heavy snow started to fall & fell for an hour & even before this Daisy reported the hills as covered - quite white - with snow to well below 1,000 ft.  By 8 P.M. stars out & very cold, but without wind.  Glass rising & snow did not lie even in garden.  Many thorn hedges now green, pear-trees in full flower & at least one apple-tree in flower at NW corner of Kenilworth Park X Harold's Cross Road.  In back garden Carex stricta, C. montana & C. rigida x goodenowii? (at rubbish heap) in flower.  In front garden Draba hirta in flower for a week & old plant of Euphorbia hiberna with shoots 6 inches high.

Pink Primrose in back garden in flower a few days before.  Leaves on Faris Salix phylicifolia fro Glenanns, Co. LE. unfolding & also on the twiggy Salix from Glenade.


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Leaves also on Salix reticulata brought from Scotland in '47 & small-leaved species (Salix arbuscula) from Loch-na-hairige in Perthshire.  Betula nana (Norway 1909. S.H.S.) almost green with leaves.


4th April 1948.
One of Frank Winder's Saxifrages from the Hag's Glen, Recks, SK., with ten flowers almost open after snow showers, hail, rain, & frosty night.


6th April 1948.

After cold & rather poor weather, though often hot sunbursts, this day very warm & mild with S-SW gale.  A real growing day only for wind!

Clare Island Mossy Saxifrage in W. border of front garden which always is the first native species to flower there almost out.  Red garden Sax. near gate in front garden now quite full out, but its white companion only just showing bud.


7th to 10th April 1948.

Weather improving but colder nights & many heavy showers of hail & rain;  warmer on 10th with thick drizzle or heavy rain in afternoon locally owing to SE-SW jam.  Odd Bombi seen in garden during this period, so all not dead.  One ♀︎ B. lapidarius seen on 7th;  ♀︎ B. jonellus on Flowering Currant at 7.30 P.M. on 10th with heavy load of pollen;  also B. lucorum & B. terrestris.