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I was living in Boone at the time. It was epic. It didn't matter that it was April. Here is write up from Gary Stepenson, who worked at WLOS. https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte/weather/2022/03/17/the-surprise-snow-storm-of-april-1987

Last two years were -1.1 and -1.0 RONI, so average of last 3 years is -0.2c/yr. I've found that 4/6+ same ENSO state shows strong tendency to reverse in the following +1-3 years.

Lots of tulips/daffodils coming up in our flower beds. Even some of the other perenials like our giant bleeding heart is waking up. Grass has some green, but a way to go still.

Someone who feels lucky should go ahead and open and pin a 2026-2027 winter prognostication thread to separate these posts from the medium range...makes it easier to find the winter stuff if that is all you care about.

Got in what was probably my last session of the season at Wachusett yesterday, April 4. Conditions were really really rough. Some stuff was barely passable. Some decent snow in others. Left by 10AM after doing 9 runs. They claim they want to open next weekend for their pond skim etc. But not sure how they can pull that off. Not much snow to push around, more melting ahead. It was a great season overall. March really sucked for snow.

0.40" Looks quite dry next 7 days.

Not here. Just 0.01” from first line. Maybe we get a few hundredths of an inch with the last line. Bad miss

Golf weather is coming, I predict that your patience for yardwork is lower than you think right now.

The Lord is risen indeed--Alleluia!!!! Victory over the grave...Amen, Amen, and AMEN! Happy Resurrection Day all!

Euro has widespread 90s for days mid month

Yeah I ended up right at .92 inches of rainfall myself. Wind has been cranking and temp is all the way down to 51 degrees.

Ended up with .45. Likely no rain for at least 10 days.

I didn’t because I was a weee lad but I read about it today. That would have been amazing.

There’s also the rapid rate of change, which is way too fast for most species to keep up with. As one example, marine heatwaves may be driving sea star wasting disease that has caused huge mortality of starfish on the US pacific coast. Then of course there’s coral reef bleaching, where warm SST’s are causing the wholesale destruction of entire reef ecosystems…those are just a couple of examples. It seems like coral and starfish aren’t able to respond quickly enough to the changes to avoid their populations taking serious damage from them. Maybe if this were all taking place twenty times more slowly, it would be different, and coral could adapt or migrate to new areas more easily. The media tends to way underreport on the non-human impacts of climate change, since people are disinterested in things that they don’t think will affect them personally. Also it seems like ecology is one of the least well-understood sciences, which is probably why we keep being blindsided by problems like colony collapse disorder in honeybees. All this to say, it’s not just about whether a warmer earth is “better” or not, it’s a question of how fast that rate of change is and whether human society and the natural world can respond in time.

I need to do some serious work on my garden and back lawn. Think im gonna rip it all out and rebuild from scratch this year.

The rains have finally come. Currently at 1.09" and counting.

I ended up with an inch of rain and I am very thankful! The pollen has been washed down and cooler air is filtering in. I could make a run at freezing in the morning. We'll see about that.

for the record, this should be a strong Nino per ONI and even RONI, but taking those +2.5C euro forecasts in early April to heart is silly. wait a couple of months and see if it sticks. the euro has overdone many a Nino in the past

GFS and Euro both have us dry the next two weeks.

funny you say that. I was gone most of the day today, when I got home it sure looked like the grass got a lot greener, and even the forsythia are starting to bud and flower

It was a good rain here as well. It rained really hard when that line came through. Heaviest precip I've seen since being under those extreme LES band on the Tug back in January.

This is true. They are super invasive. They are all over the NY Botanical garden in some of the old growth patches. (The majority of the forest is second growth but there is some old growth in the Bronx river ravine) .

Good soaking rain today!

Newport News Intl says .66 inches of rain. It was at least 1 inch in my bucket. Looking at the models, this is the only rain we will see for a week.

0.58" Most moisture here since the snow melted into the soil.