The clean-energy glut was predictable, given the tendency of snow to melt in the spring and given whopping increases in the region's wind-generating capacity.
Wine character fluctuates with each vintage dependent on how cool or how warm it got, the amount of rain in the spring and fall, the wind and even the bird population.
"Following a winter of wind and heavy snow disrupting sporting fixtures and with springin the air, we thought all our troubles were over, " says BBC Wales' head of sport, Geoff Williams.