is this May?

Feeling and looking like April out there, at the most.
At 10 am, it is 48 degrees
77% humidity
Last night's rain brought the fire danger down to LOW.

Might the sky be possibly clearing?
ah...no. It's raining again.

It won't matter right now, but as the summer goes along, it's sad to think of what the sudden increase this week in the impervious surface in the neighborhood will do to the temperature in the brook. While there aren't fish that venture far upstream, it is a stream that is the right setting for brook trout if it had water year 'round, and there's been some talk of stocking it with the brook trout's smaller cousins that can stand lower water levels in the summer. The increase in temperature that comes with a bunch more asphalt feeding water straight into the brook won't be good for that, though.