April Observations & Discussions

amugs wrote:1st week of May heat wave??

amugs wrote:1st week of May heat wave??

Already put in for a vacation day on May 4th!

amugs wrote:1st week of May heat wave??

I have tix to a minor league daytime baseball game next Wednesday. Right now looks about 80 and Sunny. I’ll take it!

from may 2017 thru april 2018, 12 months, our region has had 7 below normal monthly temp departures 2 slightly above (june and july)  and three well above normal (august and oct. 2017 and feb 2018). there clearly is a trend, at least here, that we are moving away from the consistent positive departures. I am curious to know what the global temps were during this same period. I would also like to know when was the last 12 month cycle that we had more below normal monthly departures than above normal. just going off of memory that has to be many many years ago. mike or cp would you have that data?

edit. that should be September not august 2017. also we were still above normal for the year in total due to the three very warm anomalies.

Gorgeous spring day here

A line of rain showers with maybe some embedded strong T’Storms moving into NW NJ right now. Should move across the rest of NJ between 6-9 pm this evening.

Hit 71° this afternoon, currently 67.1 with the showers/thunder showers approaching..

For the high of 68 degrees now it's getting dark I doubt it we will see any thunderstorms around my area because of the ocean

Nice soaking rain last night. Beautiful spring day yesterday.
Today grey and March like - 45*for my low and heat came on again.
So far for.last 30 days

April 29th and it was snowing this morning. I swear this winter will never end.

Saranac Lake and the Aderondecks

https://twitter.com/dwsteven/status/990679818122481664?s=19

amugs wrote:Nice soaking rain last night. Beautiful spring day yesterday.
Today grey and March like - 45*for my low and heat came on again.
So far for.last 30 days

our heat kicked on as well...just crazy weather...

One day before May and it's 38.5 and rain mixed with wet snowflakes.

Awesome.

Snowing in Stillwater Nj at 1190 ft altitude, coming down pretty good !

So basically winter said "F you everybody! I don't have to get out before May 1, and I ain't getting out before May 1."

52, windy and grey, feels like 40.

CPcantmeasuresnow wrote:One day before May and it's 38.5 and rain mixed with wet snowflakes.

Awesome.

Yes,CP, same here a little while ago.It was coming down pretty good for an hour or so, wind driven moderate to heavy snow.Winter's parting shot.Amazing to see on April 30!

A wonderful welcome to summer like temps are expected this week.

This large eastern ridge is going to allow temps to approach 90 degrees Thursday and Friday. We'll be in the 80's beginning tomorrow (in some spots)

We went from a negative NAO and AO through much of March/April to what will be a very positive NAO/AO couplet to last through May. There will be a time next week we dip below normal again as the western ridge expands, but I expect us to see another stretch of very warms temps beginning mid-May.



Also, I have locked the long range thread. It will be back Fall 2018.

As expected April will finish way below normal

Near average precip

Yes, snowflakes and a bit of covering on the windows of the cars.

April 2018 finished with a monthly mean temperature of 49.5 at CPK, the coldest April since 1975.

Math23x7 wrote:April 2018 finished with a monthly mean temperature of 49.5 at CPK, the coldest April since 1975.

True but that speaks to me more of how warm the climate has become. Before 1975 this would have been a normal April. Consider that between 1870-1975 there were 43 Aprils colder than this past one.

April was 3.6 degrees below our 30 year normal, which is good, but compared to some of the above normal months we've had like Dec 2015 that was almost 14 degrees above normal it pales in comparison. It's like I've been saying people are adapting to the warmer temps and treating below normal months like an oddity.

It's our new world.