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Why do we get so many April showers?

It’s the time of year when a torrential downpour can come and go in minutes — or drench one side of the street while leaving the other side dry. It’s all to the good for growing, says Lia Leendertz as she takes a look at the weather of April.

The weather lore of spring, just as crops are being sown, is understandably most concerned with what sort of summer lies ahead of us — and, therefore, what sort of year it will be for yields.

The saying ‘If it thunders on…

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