We had some snow last week, too, but it kept alternating with rain, hail and clear blue sunny skies, shifting between any two of these states easily in 15 minutes. I would wait for the skies to be clear and blue, dotted with only a few tiny puffs of cloud before I would leave for the office. Halfway there (on my half hour bike ride) it would start hailing. Of course, you can't even rely on this. When I tried to leave while it was raining, figuring it would clear up in a few minutes, it just rained harder. Until I got to my office, that is, when of course it cleared up and didn't rain again until the evening.
This was typical April weather. It had been miraculously sunny during the ceremony at the foot of the steps of Smallbridge House, but it had rained torrentially once already during the twenty-mile drive to London. Then the sun had reappeared, had warmed and dried them; but now as they crossed Wimbledon Common the sky was black again, and the first drops began to drive into their faces.
-C.S. Forester, The Commodore
