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Flying now... 38.1

32 degrees this morning and frost.

34F in Huntingtown, yay we avoided the freeze. Not so at the cabin, 28F there in Swanton.

29 in Davidsonville (plants safely covered)

I feel for the orchards. Year #4 without a crop of peaches for northern MD. Apples also probably got fried. No local fruit sucks bad. I use to enjoy picking my own peaches from Lerry Land farms.

This was a record breaking April temperature drop spanning around 5 days. These charts are just for hourly reports and miss highs or lows recorded between hours. Spots that radiate well dropped more than 60°. https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/plotting/auto/?_wait=no&q=169&network=NJ_ASOS&zstation=EWR&v=tmpf&hours=111&month=apr&dir=cool&how=exact&syear=1900&_r=t&dpi=100&_fmt=png

I’m suppose to go Saturday night. Hope weather improves for the weekend.

Went down to feed the cats. Thought to myself wow the house is cold. Thermostat said 66. Forgot to switch back to heat from cool last night. Outside temp here is 27. Quite rude. Put the heat back on to warm the house up as the system will be down all day for the install. On a side note internet went down at 10 last night and is still down this morning. Xfinity had a 1:15 am back up time, but that has been pushed to 9 am. Longest outage we have ever had. So running off cell data until back up.

27.3 (Muttontown) & 30.9 (Syosset) for morning lows.

April is now a winter month.

This is really impressive after the heat of last week. Not too often do you have highs in the 90s followed so close to freezing temps.

Of course it does. I am going to the Savannah Bananas on Sunday. We can’t have nice weather for that…

Looks like the warm water helped keep DCA (and a few other spots "on" the water) well short of freezing. A few other locations may also have escaped. But IAD hit 27, BWI 30

24 for the low.

It was 40F at 3am in Colonial Beach so I was like no way. Surprised to wake up to see 32 at 630am! Winds must have died down.

32 on the dot along the former, and sure to be future tropical shores of the Potomac.

24 currently… plants that have opened hopefully will recover.

23 this morning,. I wonder how much damage this hard frost and freeze did to the fruit trees and other vegetation overnight?

31.8 for the low... already back above freezing.

30 Ridgely Mesonet reporting 28

24 for the low here

29.3 so far.

FWIW, the April dynamical mean came in at 2.06 for the ONI. This is significantly ahead of 2023 and 2015 at the same point. 2023 was at 1.54 and 2.10 verified. April 2015 was at 1.30 and 2.80 verified. So for the two most recent El Niños reaching an ONI of 2.0 or greater, the spring forecast barrier resulted in too weak a forecast. https://iri.columbia.edu/our-expertise/climate/forecasts/enso/current/ April 2026 Average, Dynamical models 0.764 1.120 1.438 1.709 1.763 1.951 2.060 1.856 1.810 April 2023 Average, Dynamical models 0.460 0.785 1.098 1.328 1.406 1.481 1.547 1.473 1.386 April 2015 Average, dynamical models 0.8 1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.1

29 imby

22.7° what a morning