May has been... well... May

It has been a roller coaster ride so far this month with the hottest temps of the year and some pretty big thunderstorms. We keep bouncing between warm and cool weather and that is pretty much par for the course in the merry month of May.

For Memorial Day the forecast warned of showers and that is also typical. But the weather man was off by a day as the holiday was mostly sunny and quite pleasant. I managed to get the BBQ out and soak up a nice mild afternoon :) Enjoy the rest of the week I chat next week with May stats.

Hotter than the 4th of July? Probably

We have another heat wave under way and the mercury has busted through to the nineties again! I average only 9 days a year at or above 90 degrees and now there is already two in the books this year! I am sitting at 90 degrees and watching all that delicious sunny goodness pouring all over the city.

So get out and soak it up my friends, soak it up!

Glorious Sunshine Returns

With nary a complaint from anyone, the spring weather has returned to the brighter and warmer variety we all know and love. Today's high temps were flirting affectionately with 70 degrees and the prognosticators at the NWS think it could be warmer over the weekend.

But first we must endure some more liquid refreshment. Showers abound till Saturday followed by a healthy dose of vitamin D enriching sunshine on Mother's Day.

Soak it up my friends; soak it up.

April was a nice spring roller coaster ride!

I am typing this at the noon hour with a balmy 83 degrees showing on the thermometer. The weather boffins at the National Weather Service seem to think we will punch through to 90 degrees as the day wears on. 90 degrees, quick Robin, activate the remote Bat swimming pool! Yeah it's kind of like that.

Yesterday was the warmest day of the year thus far (today will top it). I measured a toasty 84.7 degrees under gloriously sunny skies and nice breeze. Yesterday was in fact the warmest April day I have ever recorded at this location; my daily temp records date back to 2002.

The numbers for April were a touch warmer than average with the average daily high temp two above at 61.5 degrees and the average daily overnight low also two above at 43.2 degrees. The warmest overnight low was also yesterday with a June-like 50.5 degrees. After April fools day we managed to hit at least 50 degrees on every single day, April Fools manged a 49.6 as the coolest day of the month. We also managed to get through April with nary a freezing mark as the coldest low temperature was 36.5 degrees on the 13th.

It seemed like we got a fair amount of rain but the gauge showed a drier than average 3.66 inches of all rain. There were numerous days with scattered thunderstorms,so I would imagine that some gauges may show an inch more than others. The wettest day was 0.87 inches on the 23rd. Overall we had 11 'sunnylicious' days and 14 days with rain.

Now we march forward with summer feeling near. May opens with a summer sonata of upper eighties and maybe the first 90 of the year. 90 this early? Holy heatwaves Batman!

The NWS issued a heat warning. although these temps are not considered "hot" by summer standards, they are near record temps for this time of year and they are concerned with a lack of acclimation to the warmth affecting people. Also they warned that the temptation to jump into a local river is unwise as the water is flowing very fast and the water temps are bitter cold as this is snow melt friends. snow is cold ;) Be careful and use that noggin to make safe decisions but by all means; get outside and soak it up my friends, soak it up.