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The STJ near the Baja is forecast to become more active with the developing El Niño. So it’s looking like more rainfall chances in late April. But the individual storm details will probably have to wait.

Yeah seems like late next week pattern could turn wetter.

About same rain for me. Don’t expect anything so I’ll take it.

Well, it is still April in the Northland. Bouts of chilly wx still in the pipeline.

Yeah, I can see the door coming south on TDWR now. 76 currently.

Eeked out about 0.10" of rain yesterday from the heavy drizzle, and shwrs/stms that developed over the area. Was nice to have stms for a change. Geese have been trickling back into the area as well as flocks of tweety birds. No robin sightings yet, but that'll come soon.

Had mini-splits installed in my last house, was $10k for two units and that was 2009. They were OK

Yea. Should be real interesting to see what happens once this massive DWKW surfaces in the eastern PAC next month

Yeah, we have been in an all or nothing snowfall pattern for 30 years now around NYC Metro. Nearly all seasons have been under 18” or over 30” with not many in the mid range. So it’s a bit like a power hitter that strikes out quite a bit between homers. The background warming loads the dice for more strikeouts over time. But the record SST warmth out near the Gulf Stream results in some very long homeruns like we saw back in late February when the STJ activates with good blocking. The ultimate question each season is how many duds will we have to endure before another gem of a season like 2025-2026?

My wife wants us to get those. I've been hesitating...

OH f yeah. I lived in Rockport ( cold north Atlantic hiny cockport ) for year back in the day. You pretty much just assume there is no other reality but the stench of kelp and the distant wine of gull fly-bys, when there isn't the ghostly howl of hypothermic wind gust through telegraph lines. There's a couple of coffee breaks where something vaguely similar to continental summer merriment shows up from late June to early August ...along with droves of tourism... otherwise, that's a different climate driven salt culture out there, period. Ipswitch? mm... perhaps a hybrid of that but enough genetics to still look just as ugly. I guess tho - in fairness - once your stuck out there and accept it ? It kinda does have a charm. Then aspects like ocean fury and tidal challenges/Nor'easters can be fun.

Yeah there ain’t no door coming west . This is deep heat until Friday . Even Ayer

Well I mean in a relative sense. Better there vs Ipswich lol.

About 0.10" rain last night. Little too far south. High of 82. 68 now.

My phone woke me at 2am with the tornado warning alert. I ended up being up 2 hours. The storm was wicked but no tornado here. Possible one 3 miles north. Got 0.82" rain. Looks like quite a bit of damage noted in ann arbor, Dearborn, lincoln park. The constant lightning illuminated the black cloud overhead

April 15 2002: An early heat wave overtakes Minnesota. Faribault hits 93 degrees, and the Twin Cities would experience their earliest recorded 90 degree temperature with a high of 91. For Wednesday, April 15, 2026 1921 - Two mile high Silver Lake, CO, received 76 inches of snow in 24 hours, the heaviest 24 hour total of record for North America. The storm left a total of 87 inches in twenty-seven and a half hours. (David Ludlum) 1927 - New Orleans LA was drenched with 14.01 inches of rain, which established a 24 hour rainfall record for the state. (The Weather Channel) 1949 - A hailstone five inches by five and a half inches in size, and weighing four pounds, was measured at Troy NY. (The Weather Channel) 1958 - A tornado 300 yards in width skipped along a five mile path near Frostproof FL. A 2500 gallon water tank was found one mile from its original position (it is not known how much water was in the tank at the time). (The Weather Channel) 1987 - Thunderstorms developing along a cold front produced severe weather in the Southern Atlantic Coast Region. A tornado killed one person and injured seven others near Mount Dora FL. Drifts of hail up to two feet deep were reported in Davidson and Rowan counties in North Carolina. Myrtle Beach SC was deluged with seven inches of rain in three hours. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1988 - Death Valley, CA, was soaked with 1.53 inches of rain in 24 hours. Snow fell in the mountains of southern California. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1989 - Showers and thunderstorms soaked the eastern U.S. with heavy rain, pushing the rainfall total for the month at Cape Hatteras NC past their previous April record of 7.10 inches. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary) 1990 - Thunderstorms developing along a stationary front produced severe weather from west central Texas to west central Arkansas during the late afternoon and evening. Thunderstorms spawned a tornado which caused more than half a million dollars damage at Fort Stockton TX, produced wind gusts to 65 mph at Dennison TX, produced baseball size hail at Silo OK and near Capps Corner TX, and drenched southeastern Oklahoma with up to 4 inches of rain in two hours. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) Note: The 1927 record for rainfall in 24 hrs was eclipsed on Aug 29, 1962 at 22.00" from a tropical disturbance in the Sabine National Wildlife Refuge in Hackberry, LA.

April 14th, 2023 had a low of 70 in Central Park During the 2002 April heatwave the minimums were 74 and 76 on the 17th and 18th These may be the only instances of 70+ mins in April for NYC

Oh ...I see... that thrust thru the lower GOM waters nearing Essex appears to be around the backside of a weak meso-beta scale low scooting E along the stationary front. WPC at least analyzes that low below-left. Were they also analyze a standard boundary as a cfront along the VT/NH border as is illustrated. As usual, they don't acknowledge really the BD mechanics going on below-right. If the low moves east more that might terminate the momentum with that plume/BD aspect there but ... not sure how that all entangles with the main boundary. Plus the convective sewage coming out of NY is there, too

Only 0.16" from this event, and the 0.03" overnight makes it 11 days with rain this month, with a grand total of 1.39". April average is a bit over 4" so the deficit continues to grow. Farmers were able to disk the fields along Route 2 last week, by far the earliest I've seen that. Low water table.

We are really wedged in down low. Torch at the summits but feels CAD down low and 10F cooler.

Glad we don't have to worry about that

According to Mesonet, Manhattan only dropped to 71 overnight. When is the last time that happened in April?

70 fwi temporarily w

Very end of month continues to look like a breakdown of the ridge and much wetter pattern. Hasn’t really been can kicked which is good. Saw RDU has only recorded measurable rain twice in last 30 days

really? heh. that sat image I posted looks pretty ominous... okay, we'll bide time