Is April 25 Actually The Perfect Date?
Is April 25 Actually The Perfect Date? According to Miss Congeniality it is. Remember this? Today in Boston, April 25 is decidedly NOT the perfect date. It started with freezing…
Is April 25 Actually The Perfect Date?
According to Miss Congeniality it is.
Remember this?
Today in Boston, April 25 is decidedly NOT the perfect date. It started with freezing temps and will only reach 54 by the end of the day. You need a parka, not a light jacket.
But a lot of cool things did happen on April 25.
Here are a few April 25 fun facts!
305 years ago - In 1719, "Robinson Crusoe" was published.
150 years ago - In 1874, the man who invented radio, Guglielmo Marconi, was born in Bologna, Italy.
80 years ago - In 1944, the United Negro College Fund was founded.
77 years ago - In 1947, President Truman opened the first White House bowling alley. Eisenhower closed that one in 1955, but Johnson and Nixon had other alleys built for themselves and their staff.
52 years ago - In 1972, George Sanders, the incomparable voice of the tiger Shere Khan in Disney's animated "Jungle Book", O.D.'d on sleeping pills at the age of 65. His suicide note read, in part, quote, "Dear World: I am leaving because I am bored. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool."
34 years ago - In 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was placed into orbit.
22 years ago - In 2002, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes of TLC died in a Honduras car accident. She was 30. "No Scrubs". "Creep". "Baby-Baby-Baby". "Waterfalls".
17 years ago - In 2007, "Monster Mash" singer Bobby "Boris" Pickett died of leukemia at age 69.
15 years ago - In 2009, "Golden Girls" superstar Bea Arthur died from cancer.
10 years ago - In 2014, the Flint Water Crisis began. That's the day Flint, Michigan city officials switched the city's water supply over to the Flint River in order to save a quick buck, without realizing how contaminated the water was.
Three years ago - In 2021, "Nomadland" won Best Picture at the Oscars, Pixar's "Soul" won Best Animated Movie, "Fight for You" won Best Original Song, and not a single person was slapped . . . that we know of.
Maggie Rogers is 30. "Light On" singer. Pharrell discovered her during a master class at the Clive Davis Institute of Music in New York.
Jonathan Bailey is 36. Lord Anthony Bridgerton on "Bridgerton".
Melonie Diaz is 40. Mel Vera on the "Charmed" remake. She's the middle sister with the power to freeze time.
DeAngelo Williams is 41. Former Steelers and Panthers running back.
Tim Duncan is 48. Retired NBA superstar from the San Antonio Spurs.
Jason Lee is 54. Stillwater singer Jeff Bebe in "Almost Famous",Earl Hickey on "My Name is Earl", and Dave Seville in the "Alvin & the Chipmunks" movies.
Before that, he was in the Kevin Smith movies "Mallrats", "Chasing Amy", "Dogma" and "Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back". He doesn't do as much acting these days, because he's very passionate about his photography.
Renée Zellweger is 55. Bridget Jones. She's also Roxie in "Chicago", Judy Garland in "Judy", and Dorothy in "Jerry Maguire".
Gina Torres is 55. EMS Captain Tommy Vega on "9-1-1: Lone Star". You'd know her as managing partner Jessica Pearson on "Suits" and its short-lived spin-off "Pearson". Sci-fi fans also know her as Zoe on "Firefly".
Joe Buck is 55. NFL and MLB commentator and the former co-host of the "NFL Sunday" pregame and postgame show on Fox.
Eric Avery is 59. Co-founder and bassist of Jane's Addiction. He used to give his business to Alanis Morissette. Nothing says "rock star" like picking up Dave Coulier's leftovers.
Rory Feek is 59. Widowed country singer. "My Last Breath Here (Joey's Song)". "When I'm Gone".
Hank Azaria is 60. The voice of Chief Wiggum and Moe on "The Simpsons", but he's done playing Apu. And baseball announcer Jim Brockmire on "Brockmire".
He was also Huff on Showtime's "Huff", Gargamel in the "Smurfs" movies . . . and ridiculously funny as the butler, Agador Spartacus, in "The Birdcage".
Talia Shire is 78. Adrian in the "Rocky" movies and Connie Corleone in the "Godfather" movies. You might also remember her as the therapist in those old Geico caveman commercials that were a lot funnier than I'd ever admit publicly.
Talia is the sister of "Godfather" director Francis Ford Coppola, the mother of Jason Schwartzman, and the aunt of Nicolas Cage and Sofia Coppola.
Björn Ulvaeus from ABBA is 79. Their biggest hits include: "Dancing Queen", "Take a Chance on Me", "Mamma Mia", "S.O.S.", "The Winner Takes It All", "Knowing Me, Knowing You", "Fernando" and "Waterloo".
Al Pacino is 84. He won an Oscar for "Scent of a Woman" . . . but to me he'll always be Michael Corleone from the "Godfather" movies.
Len Goodman would have been 80. (1944 - 2023) The head judge on "Dancing with the Stars".
Ella Fitzgerald (1917 - 1996) Legendary jazz singer.
9 Times It Snowed Like Crazy in Spring and Summer in Boston
Say it ain't SNOW!
9 Times It Snowed Like Crazy in Spring and Summer in Boston.
It's been a pretty disappointing winter when it comes to snow, so a lot of you are putting the shovels and salt back in the garage and breaking out the beach chairs and sunscreen.
NOT SO FAST.
Oh, Boston, the city that loves to surprise you with a snowstorm in the middle of spring or summer. Just when you thought it was safe to put away your shovels and break out the flip flops, Mother Nature decides to throw a curveball and dump a foot of snow on your lawn.
Yet, there are 9 Times It Significantly Snowed in Spring and Summer in Boston.
It's truly a remarkable feat to see snowflakes falling from the sky in the middle of June, but leave it to Boston to make it happen.
Maybe it's the city's way of reminding us that we can never let our guard down when it comes to the weather.
But let's be real, snowstorms in spring and summer are just plain annoying.
Who wants to be digging their car out of a snowbank when it's supposed to be beach weather?
It's like Boston is trying to see how many seasons it can fit into one day.
And let's not forget about the havoc these snowstorms wreak on the city's infrastructure.
One inch of snow can bring Boston's public transportation system to a screeching halt (thanks MBTA!). So you can only imagine the chaos that ensues when there's a full-blown snowstorm in the middle of July.
But hey, at least we can take solace in the fact that we're not alone in our suffering.
Other cities, like Minneapolis and Denver, have also experienced their fair share of spring and summer snowstorms. Misery loves company, right?
So, to all the weather gods out there, can we please just stick to the seasons that are assigned to us?
We'll happily take our winter snow and summer heat in their designated months. We don't need any surprise visits from Jack Frost in June or July. Boston has enough surprises as it is.
March 31-April 1, 1997
Dubbed the April Fool’s Day storm, it snowed 22.4 inches in Boston. The wet, heavy snow came down at 3 inches an hour at some points. April Fool's indeed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67QNE9oQ2hk
April 4 - 5, 2016
Boston broke snowfall and low temp records. A record of 6.6 inches of snow was set in Boston.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eku7k2zb6uE
April 6, 1982
10.8 inches
The "Northeast Blizzard of '82" brought 1-2 feet of snow to parts of SNE. This single storm put April 1982 as one of the top 5 snowiest Aprils on record.
https://youtu.be/Z_a_dqXMDfQ
April 9, 1917
(Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)9.1 inches
April 13, 1953
2.2 inches
April 13, 1933
Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images5 inches of snow in Boston
April 13, 1918
(Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)4.2 inches
May 9, 1977
a snowstorm slammed parts of the Northeast, dumping as much as 20 inches of snow in parts of Massachusetts.
Boston's Logan airport only picked up a 1/2 inch of snow, but areas away from the coast saw significant snow. Worcester measured over a foot of snow, Bedford received 9 1/2 inches, Milton saw almost 8 inches and Providence had 7 inches.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYv9cYpr1Fc
June 1816
On June 6 and 7, 1816, a big, old snowstorm hit northern New York and New England, with several areas recording 6 inches of snow. Boston had snow flurries on the 7th. According to celebrateboston.com, "In the northern parts of the state [VT], about the same time, snow fell in considerable quantities. In the town of Cabot it was 18 inches deep on the 8th of June."
In a Currier & Ives print titled 'American Homestead Winter,' a man with his dog carries firewood to his home as a couple in a horse-drawn slegh pass him on the road, 1868. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
