Good Saturday to one and all. After the coldest blast of April air since 2007, our weather pattern is set to turn much warmer this weekend into early next week. Of course, the only way the thermometer could really is up. Once into the middle of next week, some ugly starts to show back up.
Let’s kick this Easter Weekend party off with the weather out there today. Lows are into the 20s for the third straight morning with afternoon readings ranging from the upper 50s to low 60s under mostly sunny skies.
Easter Sunday looks spectacular with plenty of sunshine and highs hitting the upper 60s to low 70s. The Easter Bunny is going to be a happy camper as it comes hoping into town. 🐰🥚
Readings for much of next week warm deep into the 70s, but it comes with a stormy price by the second half of the week. The models differ from run to run on how they handle a couple of slow-moving lows working into our region, but remain committed to the overall active theme through next weekend…
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Those setups can bring along some ugly weather and some hefty rain totals…
Now, get out and enjoy this amazing Saturday and take care.
31 degrees at 1:20am in wayne, wva……it was 26 last night……it is cold but not as cold as everyone was thinking at one time …..still impressive for early April especially with snow in the air on the 1st of april….enjoy the easter weekend.
The month of March was a very mild, very dry, and very windy month for the Chicago area. The average temperature at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport for the month was 44.2 degrees, which is 6.3 degrees above normal, and tied for the tenth warmest March ever. Total precipitation was just 1.25 inches, which is half of normal. There was measurable snow on only one day, with 1.8 inches, which is 3.8 inches below normal. 0.3 inches fell at the NWS Forecast Office in the SW Suburbs.
Chicago is known as the Windy City, but the number of windy days we had in March was quite remarkable. On 12 days we had wind gusts between 30-39 MPH, on four days wind gusts of 40-49 MPH, and four more days with wind gusts between 50-55 MPH. So we had wind gusts of at least 40 MPH twice a week on average for the month. These were all non-thunderstorm related winds.
Seasonal snowfall now stands at 48.8 inches for O’Hare Airport, and 46.6 inches at the NWS Forecast Office, so it looks like we won’t break 50 inches for the season. The last three Aprils have seen measurable snow here though, so I guess anything is still possible.
Yesterdays low temperature here in Central Kentucky bottomed out at 20 degrees F. This morning it is at 28 degrees F. and still falling as it does right before Sunrise.
March has had very little windy days here and much of the month had normal temperatures until here lately and above normal precipitation.
What was absent is our usual heavy wet Snow events.
Read that we are now coming out of this prolong ENSO La Nina and phasing slowly to neutral status.
What this means for the Atlantic Hurricane Season remains an early guess.