Day 46: Spring storms

Today's forecast was kinda rainy, but the sun broke through and we set out for a bit of Saturday shopping. The mountains were still deeply enveloped by grey cloud, but we had patches of blue sky over us. It didn't last: the next band of showers caught up with us at MEC and by the time we reached the grocery store, the rain was bouncing off the road. We dashed across the road as the lights turned in our favour, dodging oncoming pedestrians in the crossing and happy to get under the shelter of the next building. I was wishing I had the camera with me as the rain was torrential, a cold tropical downpour.

Well that wasn't the last of it: as we returned to the car the rain was still bouncing off the road, harder than before if that was at all possible. Running through the rain was also more painful than I expected, and once under shelter again I turned to Maria and noticed she had hail in her hair :-) Not little pellets but big pea-sized lumps of ice. No wonder it hurt bouncing off my head.

We headed home and watched the showers come and go for the rest of the day, eventually clearing to leave us with a pleasant evening. The clouds lifted and we caught a glimpse of the whitened mountain tops, Crown looking especially festive with its coat of fresh snow. Festive - in May...!

Spring snow on Crown Mountain