Welcome to May! Eventually spring will arrive, I hope. April was a rather blah month with daytime highs about 2 under average and not a single warm day at 70° or better. Overnight lows were actually a tad above average and that is likely due to the many, many days with cloud cover. So that makes now, OVER SEVEN months without a seventy. In fact as of today, we are at 216 days and counting. Yikes!April's temperature numbers were pretty flat over all. We had six days with temperatures above 60°, the warmest was the 21st when we busted out a 68.2 mark. It is likely some nearby locations saw 70°, I did not. We managed to hit at least 50° on all 30 days in April the coolest of which was the 24th when I peaked at exactly 50 degrees. The coldest temperature came the morning of the 3rd with a frosty 33.6 degrees and one of 9 days with lows in the 30s. I had just three "sunny" days and I had to get a bit generous with the definition to pull that off. 18 days with rain but a less than average load in the bucket.
As for precipitation it was all rain which is no surprise as snow in April is pretty rare. We did have a fair amount of thunderstorms and some associated hail collected on the streets a few times. Nothing larger than pea size. I measured 3.88 inches for the month, running shy of my 15 year average of around 4.24 in April. There was only two days that were really wet the worst of which was still a modest soaking of just 0.88 inches on the 24th.
Overall April was a bit boring on the weather front, I guess that is good, really. Averages were 42° low and 57° high. That's about 0.7° over and 2.5° under respectively.
This week the NWS in Portland is calling for some 80s on Wednesday and Thursday. It seems we get to just skip the whole first 70 and go right for the June Jugular at 81°. We shall see, it has been a weird year.
