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April 26 1954: Extremely heavy downpours occur in Mora, where nearly 7 inches of rain would fall in a little over 10 hours. For Sunday, April 26, 2026 1834 - Killer frosts were reported in the Deep South. The frost was quite severe around Huntsville AL, and highlighted a backward spring in the South that year. (David Ludlum) 1978 - An unusually strong occluded front swept out of the Gulf of Alaska and produced the first April thunderstorm of record at Fairbanks. Pea size hail fell northeast of Fairbanks from thunderstorms whose tops were less than 8000 feet. (The Weather Channel) 1984 - Severe thunderstorms associated with an intense cyclone spawned a total of forty-seven tornadoes in two days from Louisiana to Upper Michigan. The tornadoes killed 16 persons and injured 259 others. (Storm Data) 1987 - Twenty-two cities in the central and western U.S. reported new record high temperatures for the date. The afternoon high of 83 degrees at Astoria OR smashed their previous record by 13 degrees. Sacramento CA hit 94 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) 1988 - While Rochester, MN, was blanketed with 13.7 inches of snow, establishing a single storm record for the month of April, Minneapolis MN, just 90 miles away, got only rain. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary) 1989 - Thirty-three cities in the central and southeastern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. Afternoon highs of 91 degrees at Evansville IN and Nashville TN equaled April records. Thunderstorms produced severe weather from Iowa to Kentucky, with more than ninety reports of large hail and damaging winds. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 90 mph at Berwick IA. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1990 - Twenty-nine cities from the Carolinas to the Great Lakes Region and western New England reported record high temperatures for the date as readings soared into the 80s and lower 90s. Record high temperatures included 95 degrees at Baltimore MD and 92 degrees at Allentown PA. The record high of 89 degrees at Alpena MI was the third out of six straight record highs for that location, and smashed their previous record for the date by ten degrees. (The National Weather Summary) 1991 - Severe thunderstorms in the central U.S. spawned fifty-five tornadoes from northeastern Texas to Iowa and eastern Nebraska killing twenty-one persons. Early evening thunderstorms over south central Kansas spawned a violent (F-5) tornado which traveled 45 miles from southwest of Wichita to north of El Dorado. It killed seventeen persons, including thirteen at the Golden Spur Mobile Home Park in Andover. The tornado also caused 62 million dollars damage to McConnell Air Force Base as it crossed the south side of Wichita. (National Weather Summary 2003 - Twenty inches of snow falls in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. Alpine Meadows ski resort just north of Lake Tahoe reports more than 100 inches and Kirkwood south of Tahoe reports 112 inches.

Tomorrow's a wake up and see day. No point to modeling.

2009 would probably be too big of an ask in this much warmer climate. It was the 2nd coolest June and July on record at spots like Islip. 2023 was our last summer with a developing El Niño that became very strong. Was cooler overall than the other 2020s summers so far but still not really cool by historical standards. Time Series Summary for Islip Area, NY (ThreadEx) 10 Coolest June 1 to July 31 Periods Click column heading to sort ascending, click again to sort descending. 1 1965-07-31 67.9 0 2 2009-07-31 68.2 0 3 1978-07-31 68.5 0 4 1979-07-31 68.7 0 - 1968-07-31 68.7 0 5 1992-07-31 68.9 0 6 1982-07-31 69.0 0 7 1964-07-31 69.2 0 8 1972-07-31 69.3 0 9 1985-07-31 69.4 0 10 2000-07-31 69.6 0 - 1996-07-31 69.6 0

Agree. The facts are fairly straightforward. An El Niño is developing, and it is developing similarly to previous strong and super ninos. If it does become a super Nino it won’t be the first one, and certainly won’t be the last. Personally I don’t think it’s a huge deal, I mean im not too happy about it because it’s an unfavorable ENSO state for cold and snow for my area, but it’s not like the El Niño itself is an actual threat to our lives or anything. 2015-2016 happened, life went on. Same thing will happen with this event.

0.22" of rain from overnight showers. Plenty more to come in the next 48 hrs. Damp with temps in the 40's.

The Slasher (Thompson) already removed 10% tor probs over Kansas for today's setup.

Cleared 1.5” here. Ground is nice and saturated even through thick evergreen trees. .

You talk to Vortex any?I seen where they had a tornado recently around where he lives,he went AWOL on us

Enjoy. stuck in upper 40s right now and cloudy. meal prep day and maybe hit the gym.

After some MUCH welcomed rain lol, wife and I caught a pretty sick sunset last night.

Not quite. Cheifs traded picks 78 and 148, Birds traded 114 and 137. All and all, I like what Howie did there. With Brown leaving and Hurts is in his prime you have to give him every possible tool. And I agree picking up Greenard was a good move and yes he should have a field day out there for the reason you mentioned...

.71" of rain here.

2009 was another one of those years that led into a strong el nino. All the colder Junes in the last 30 years have happened in lead-ups to strong or super el ninos (1997, 2009, and 2023). 1997 and 2009 both finished with well below average summer temps, while 2023 finished near normal. 2015, on the other hand, had a near record warm May, and a warmer than normal summer. Same with 1991. Oddly enough, both years were preceded by borderline warm neutral/weak el ninos. The summers before, 1990 and 2014, were much cooler.

I would agree with you if there was less of a signal for extensive morning convection on the CAMs, however... it's an interesting disagreement between the mesoscale models (NAM, RAP) and the CAMs (3K NAM, HRRR). The former two build a very potent environment into east IA/N IL/even S WI late Monday afternoon/evening, which the latter two fail to do because of the impacts of the aforementioned incessant convection.

Fantastic morning here, going to get out for a hike this afternoon.

Finished with 1.73 inches at my station

One of our oyster farms damariscotta river in midcoast . We shut down for rainfall at 2” .

5 days left

2009 type summer, incoming?

Records: Highs: EWR: 93 (2009) NYC: 92 (2009) LGA: 91 (2009) JFK: 86 (2009) Lows: EWR: 34 (1934) NYC: 31 (1919) LGA: 37 (1972) JFK: 37 (1967) Historical: 1834 - Killer frosts were reported in the Deep South. The frost was quite severe around Huntsville AL, and highlighted a backward spring in the South that year. (David Ludlum) 1857: Heavy snow in parts of Connecticut caused buildings to collapse. Six foot snow drifts were reported. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1884: Tornadoes were hard to capture on old cameras with their hard to use glass plate negatives. The first recorded photograph of a tornado was taken on this date by A.A. Adams near Garnett, Kansas. 1890: Very destructive rain, wind and hailstorm at Baltimore doing $100,000 in damage. 1899: A tornado struck Kirksville MO killing 34 persons and destroying 300 buildings. (David Ludlum) 1912: One of the worst tornado outbreaks in Oklahoma's history occurred. 16 tornadoes rated F2 or greater touched down in the state with 6 of them rated F4. 29 people were killed. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1915: The maximum temperature for the date is 95°F. in Washington, DC. (Ref. Washington Weather Records - KDCA) The maximum temperature for the date is 96°F. at the Richmond International Airport and the highest for the month and also occurred on four other dates. (Ref. Richmond Weather Records - KRIC) 1922: For two weeks, the city of New Orleans, LA had been under siege from a major flood on the Mississippi River. On this date, a levee failure occurred 12 miles downriver from New Orleans at Poydras in St. Bernard Parish. The Poydras crevasse would become an opening 1,500 feet wide in the levee and flooding Plaquemines and St. Bernard Parishes, but saving New Orleans. As the Corps of Engineers built more and more levees, the river went higher and higher. The 1922 flood was a preview of a worse flood that would occur in 1927. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1923: A tornado moved east from the northeast corner of Baca County, Colorado. Accompanied by two other funnel clouds, the tornado struck the Sherwood school, 14 miles northwest of Johnson Kansas, killing the teacher and injuring five small children. The body of the teacher was carried 100 yards. The prairie grass in this sparsely settled region appeared to be burned. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1933: The minimum temperature for the date is 38°F. in Washington, DC. (Ref. Washington Weather Records - KDCA) This was the 11th day during the month where the low temperatures at Rockford, IL fell below the freezing mark. The morning low of 26° tied a record low for the date. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1942: A destructive tornado swept across Rogers County and Mayes County in Oklahoma. The tornado struck the town of Pryor killing 52 persons and causing two million dollars damage. (David Ludlum) 1970: Heavy snows fell across Montana, including 39 inches at Red Lodge and 35 inches at Summit. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1978 - An unusually strong occluded front swept out of the Gulf of Alaska and produced the first April thunderstorm of record at Fairbanks. Pea size hail fell northeast of Fairbanks from thunderstorms whose tops were less than 8000 feet. (The Weather Channel) 1984 - Severe thunderstorms associated with an intense cyclone spawned a total of forty-seven tornadoes in two days from Louisiana to Upper Michigan. The tornadoes killed 16 persons and injured 259 others. (Storm Data) 1986: The Chernobyl nuclear power station in Kiev Ukraine suffered a massive explosion. The radioactive cloud of particles and gas carried westward and northwestward, contaminating large areas of Europe in the following week. 1987 - Twenty-two cities in the central and western U.S. reported new record high temperatures for the date. The afternoon high of 83 degrees at Astoria OR smashed their previous record by 13 degrees. Sacramento CA hit 94 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) 1988 - While Rochester, MN, was blanketed with 13.7 inches of snow, establishing a single storm record for the month of April, Minneapolis MN, just 90 miles away, got only rain. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary) 1989 - Thirty-three cities in the central and southeastern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. Afternoon highs of 91 degrees at Evansville IN and Nashville TN equalled April records. Thunderstorms produced severe weather from Iowa to Kentucky, with more than ninety reports of large hail and damaging winds. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 90 mph at Berwick IA. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1990 - Twenty-nine cities from the Carolinas to the Great Lakes Region and western New England reported record high temperatures for the date as readings soared into the 80s and lower 90s. Record high temperatures included 95 degrees at Baltimore MD and 92 degrees at Allentown PA. The record high of 89 degrees at Alpena MI was the third out of six straight record highs for that location, and smashed their previous record for the date by ten degrees. (The National Weather Summary) 1991 - Severe thunderstorms in the central U.S. spawned fifty-five tornadoes from northeastern Texas to Iowa and eastern Nebraska killing twenty-one persons. Early evening thunderstorms over south central Kansas spawned a violent (F-5) tornado whiched traveled 45 miles from southwest of Wichita to north of El Dorado. It killed seventeen persons, including thirteen at the Golden Spur Mobile Home Park in Andover. The tornado also caused 62 million dollars damage to McConnell Air Force Base as it crossed the south side of Wichita. (National Weather Summary 1991:During a severe thunderstorm event, large hail fell over parts of Brown, Spink, Hand, and Buffalo Counties. Both Brown and Hand Counties received hail up to 1.75 inches in diameter. 2003: For only the 11th time since records began in 1871, hail was observed in Key West Florida. A severe thunderstorm produced hail to 1.75 inches in diameter which easily broke the previous record of a half an inch in diameter which was set on May 10, 1961.(Weather Guide Calendar with Phenomenal Weather Events 2007 Accord Publishing, USA)

1.51”. Solid event

Low of 41.7F. Rain total of 0.52”. .

46 / 42 clouds. Clouds may hang on beyond noon but clearing later this afternoon. E/NE flow caps temps in the low-mid 50s. Reprieve Mon / Tue - nice near normal weather - dry / sunny low - upper 60s. Next shot at rain Wed into and maybe through much of Thu with >1.00 potential. Trough figs in to end the week and next weekend which can be unsettled and trend that way. Overall cooler / unsetteled through May5th. Beyond there moderation between towards the second week of the month.

Ok, another game for her this morning and it’s 43 and still freaking raining. You’ve got to be kidding me lol. Took us a good half-hour for us to thaw out yesterday.