April 2025 General Discussion

[hawkeye_wx]

My final rain total is 3.12".  That was a lot of fun.  I love heavy rain and it has been a long time since the last heavy rain event.  There were a few lightning flashes, but it wasn't much up here in the cold air.

[michsnowfreak]

Since the April 10th snowfall, the forecast wet, active, and potentially severe period of weather has produced a grand total of 0.02" rain at DTW 

[Brian D]

0.25" of precip this morning. A little snow was mixed in (around 0.1" on the grass). Wet, chilly morning. 

[cyclone77]

8 hours ago, hawkeye_wx said:

My final rain total is 3.12".  That was a lot of fun.  I love heavy rain and it has been a long time since the last heavy rain event.  There were a few lightning flashes, but it wasn't much up here in the cold air.

Nice.  How much do you have for the month now?  Sitting at 2.80" here so far.

[Brian D]

MRCC, and all RCC sites back online yesterday aftrn. 

[cyclone77]

Always nice to see everything get reborn again every spring.  New leaves on one of the Celebration maples starting to open up today.  

 

[OrdIowPitMsp]

This is the time of year we have better weather in Minnesota then lakeshore areas of Chicagoland. Near 70 yesterday and today.

Absolutely perfect spring weather. Starting to see some buds really swell on trees here.

[A-L-E-K]

31 minutes ago, OrdIowPitMsp said:

This is the time of year we have better weather in Minnesota then lakeshore areas of Chicagoland. Near 70 yesterday and today.

Absolutely perfect spring weather. Starting to see some buds really swell on trees here.

we've entered ireland mode lately

[King James]

Dull stretch for sure

[TheClimateChanger]

You would think by the characterization of these threads (March & April) that this has been a cold and miserable spring. In fact, it's been one of the most favored springs on record with excellent planting conditions. By the end of the month, many places should be looking at a top 10 warmest spring season to date.

Dayton, Ohio, for instance, where the thread creator resides, is currently in 11th place, which places this season around the 92nd percentile of all years!

For the record, 1945 & 1946 were not observed at the airport. Temperatures were quite a bit cooler at the airport site:

[A-L-E-K]

No been pretty spring classic imby, no complaints, stretches like this are part of our climo

[SchaumburgStormer]

Just now, A-L-E-K said:

No been pretty spring classic imby, no complaints, stretches like this are part of our climo

Yep, gotta deal with our London weather stretch. Will gladly take this over late April snow. 

[hawkeye_wx]

On 4/21/2025 at 5:34 PM, cyclone77 said:

Nice.  How much do you have for the month now?  Sitting at 2.80" here so far.

My April total is up to 4.43".

[michsnowfreak]

Trees rapidly flowering after the warm days off and on the past week.

[sbnwx85]

Grass planting szn has started at the South Bend homestead. Sure sign of spring.

Will I keep up with the dead patches caused by dog pee through the summer? Stay tuned.