April begins his assault with a hearty snowmelt . Sun is high above the horizon , and in the daytime average temperature greater than 0 ° C. The air every day adds to the warm, light winds carries on natural expanses of forests and rivers, the smell of spring . Around the flood. String of sparkle in the sun streams murmuring happily run down the slopes of roads, finally liberated from snowdrifts .
Alder blossoms , and it's a sure sign of spring warm and stable . Gradually heated by the sun with trees snow melts , releasing the bark from the shackles of winter . Snow melts and the ground, a long time staying in the most dark , hidden from the sun , the ground in a dry dark crust . By the rivers of ice cracks and breaks to let then set adrift floes . On the banks of the ponds the ice is thin and sticky , sometimes formed thawed .