April 2023

[weathermedic]

Looks like the low is off the Delaware coast. My barometer is showing 29.11. Atlantic City at the 10pm obs down to 29.05 (approx 984 millibars) Not much wind though. Probably because there is no high pressure nearby. 

[lee59]

5 minutes ago, weathermedic said:

Looks like the low is off the Delaware coast. My barometer is showing 29.11. Atlantic City at the 10pm obs down to 29.05 (approx 984 millibars) Not much wind though. Probably because there is no high pressure nearby. 

Down to 29.10 here, getting some thunder.

[jm1220]

Pretty loud rumbles of thunder and heavy rain. 

[Morris]

Colors to be erased clean in next Thursday's drought monitor update. 

 

Climo here makes it very hard to run a legit drought for too long. 

Last weekend and this weekend brought many of us to above normal YTD precipitation with 2 months worth of rain in 8 days. 

[weathermedic]

Down to 29.07 with 3.5 inches of rain for the day so far and a storm total of 5.55

[Rtd208]

Landscapers rejoice. 

[nycwinter]

best noreaster we had all winter..

[BobbyHolikWillFindYou]

978mb in Clifton now. Can feel it in my bad knee. What a weekend.

[weathermedic]

Down to 29.04 or 983 millibars at my station. Impressive for April 30th.

Winds going to be gusting 20-30 mph once the center passes. Atlantic City gusting to 35 out of the west.

[TriPol]

Maybe this will be the start of a new, wetter trend.

[Rtd208]

Picked up 2.41" of rain for the day yesterday. 

Combined storm total 5.30"

[JerseyWx]

With the rain gradually ending, my two day total is sitting right around the 4.50" mark.  Definitely didn't expect that, and I'm really impressed with some of the 6"+ totals that have been reported.

Looks like a grey and cool week ahead, but I think starting Saturday we enter a much nicer and warmer period.

[Wxoutlooksblog]

42 minutes ago, JerseyWx said:

With the rain gradually ending, my two day total is sitting right around the 4.50" mark.  Definitely didn't expect that, and I'm really impressed with some of the 6"+ totals that have been reported.

Looks like a grey and cool week ahead, but I think starting Saturday we enter a much nicer and warmer period.

I think a few warmer days like 60s to around 70 or low 70s. It looks basically near to below normal temps to me until a brief shot (one or two days at most) of warmth or heat around May 12th-13th then back to cool and wet.

WX/PT

[doncat]

Had 4.90" here storm total and 6.64" past 9 days...also pressure got to 28.99". During the preceding dry spell, the 38 day period 3/15-4/21 saw just 0.97". Always end our dry spells in a big way, don't we.

[Roger Smith]

April 2023 made it all the way to 7th place ...

Update at end of day, 2.32" in total, month ends 7th wettest April. Currently 20 wettest Aprils are:

 1. __ 14.01" 1983

 2. __ 13.05" 2007

 3. ___ 8.77" 1874 

 4. ___ 8.26" 1980

 5. ___ 8.05" 1973

 6. ___ 7.85" 2014

 7. ___ 7.70" 2023

 8. ___ 7.05" 1988

t9. ___ 6.62" 1901, 1984

11. ___ 6.33" 1996

12. ___ 6.27" 1913

13. ___ 6.14" 1958

14. ___ 6.13" 1909

15. ___ 6.05" 1924

t16. ___ 5.90" 1906, 1987

18. ____ 5.85" 1929

19. ____ 5.78" 2018

20. ____ 5.67" 1982

_______________________________

All this after an essentially dry spell 2nd to 20th. 

Although the monthly summary is not available yet, adding the daily climate 60/50 temps gives totals of

1987 1469 and averages of

66.2 49.0 57.6 F so 2010 (57.9) held on and this was the second warmest April (now confirmed). 2017 now falls to third (57.2).

[Snowlover11]

roads are a mess still. sawmill, hutch, bronx river.

[lee59]

Storm total here 3.43 inches. Meanwhile it is May 1 and snow falling in upper Great Lakes. 

[Dark Star]

12 hours ago, Wxoutlooksblog said:

I think a few warmer days like 60s to around 70 or low 70s. It looks basically near to below normal temps to me until a brief shot (one or two days at most) of warmth or heat around May 12th-13th then back to cool and wet.

WX/PT

I would be amazed if we have any two consecutive months at or below normal (temperature that is).

[Allsnow]

Sump pump running for the first time since ida in 2021 

[Brian5671]

Missed the heaviest here yesterday but about 2 inches for the 2 day event.

[Brian5671]

28 minutes ago, CIK62 said:

Where is the May 2023, Topic?

April ended at     57.6[+3.9], 2nd. Place 

The first 8 days of May are averaging    56degs.(49/63) or -4.

Reached 59 here yesterday.

Today:     58-62, wind w.-breezy, p. sunny to cloudy, 49 tomorrow AM-rain.

50*(80%RH) here at 7am.      51* at 8am.

I started a May thread...

[SnoSki14]

1 hour ago, lee59 said:

Storm total here 3.43 inches. Meanwhile it is May 1 and snow falling in upper Great Lakes. 

That's not that unusual. They can get snow well into May

[MANDA]

Three day event total = 4.11".

[qg_omega]

Just over 4 inches storm total

[FPizz]

3.63"

[winterwx21]

Two day storm total of 3.85" here. 

[MANDA]

Three day rainfall totals.  Quite hefty totals in spots.  Safe to say the short term dryness is over.

[Stormlover74]

4.48 total

The models with 3 to 5" did well. The gfs sucked balls

[Gravity Wave]

Along with things being wetter in general in recent years, it seems we're developing a habit of ending what dry spells we still get with huge rain events.

[BucksCO_PA]

14 hours ago, Morris said:

Colors to be erased clean in next Thursday's drought monitor update. 

 

Climo here makes it very hard to run a legit drought for too long. 

Last weekend and this weekend brought many of us to above normal YTD precipitation with 2 months worth of rain in 8 days. 

From a hydrologic standpoint there hasn't been an official basin wide drought in the Delaware River Basin region since 2002. A drought emergency was issued for lower basin in late Sept 2010 however less than a week later the area received 4-8" of rain & that emergency was subsequently lifted the following month.

In the twenty years prior to the 2001-2002 drought the Delaware River Basin Commission issued drought warnings / emergencies on 6 occasions. Actual droughts were common during the 80's, 90's & the early 2000's until the fall 2002 El Nino when the faucet opened up. Any dry periods since then have been short lived.

Locally 4.09" for the 3 day event & 6.39" for the month of April.