April Showers Bring...Bland?

April is done and it was a bit bland. We did have those ever so necessary April Showers, but not like we normally get. We continued this extended run of dry months. There were no temperature surprises; just a couple of nice days, and one pretty nippy morning for April.

The rain bucket was well under my established normal of 4.24 inches with a barely over half of average, 2.28 inches. I measured 4 days with a 1/4 inch or more rain the wettest day being the 7th with 0.41 inch. 11 days with some precip and 7 days of mostly sunshine. No snowfall last month and that is typical for April.

Temps were slightly above average by day rough +1 and a bit toasty by night at +3. The warmest day was the 18th when the merc busted out a 75.4° the chilliest daytime high come on the 13th when the thermometer failed to reach 50° topping out at 49.8°. The coldest overnight low was a chilly 33.6 on the morn of the 28th. That's a bit late for a frost event, but there it was. The warmest overnight was the 57.7° on the 1st and that is no foolin' 8 days dipped into the thirties overnight while four days popped up above 70°.

That was a quiet April and now we move into the sweet spot for spring. Sure May can be wet, but it is rarely cold, so the second half of spring is ready to rock so get ready for some great weather.

Soak it up my friends, soak it up.