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March 21 1953: A tornado hits the northern St. Cloud area. High winds from thunderstorms are experienced from Martin to Stearns County. For Saturday, March 21, 2026 1932 - A tornado swarm occurred in the Deep South. Between late afternoon and early the next morning severe thunderstorms spawned 31 tornadoes in Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and Tennessee. The tornadoes killed 334 persons and injured 1784 others. Northern Alabama was hardest hit. Tornadoes in Alabama killed 286 persons and caused five million dollars damage. (David Ludlum) 1952 - Severe thunderstorms spawned thirty-one tornadoes across Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama and Kentucky. The tornadoes killed 343 persons and caused 15 million dollars damage. Arkansas and Tennessee each reported thirteen tornadoes. The towns of Judsonia AR and Henderson TN were nearly wiped off the map in what proved to be the worst tornado outbreak of record for Arkansas. A tornado, one and a half miles wide at times, left a church the only undamaged building at Judsonia. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel) 1987 - A winter storm in the Northern High Plains Region produced blizzard conditions in western South Dakota. Winds gusted to 70 mph at Rapid City SD, and snowfall totals ranged up to 20 inches at Lead SD. The high winds produced snow drifts six feet high. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1988 - Bitterly cold weather prevailed across the northeastern U.S. Portland ME reported their coldest spring day of record with a morning low of 5 above, and an afternoon high of just 21 degrees. Marquette MI reported a record low of 15 degrees below zero. (The National Weather Summary) (The Weather Channel) 1989 - Snow blanketed the northeastern U.S. early in the day, with six inches reported at Rutland VT. Morning and afternoon thunderstorms produced large hail and damaging winds from southwestern Mississippi to southwest Georgia. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1990 - The first full day of spring was a cold one for the eastern U.S. Freezing temperatures damaged 62 percent of the peach crop in upstate South Carolina, and 72 percent of the peach crop in the ridge area of South Carolina. Elkins WV, which a week earlier reported a record high of 82 degrees, was the cold spot in the nation with a morning low of 16 degrees. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)

At least the rain busted last night . Don’t need any for a long time

Both were punctuated by early season heatwaves: 2001-02 in mid-April and 2011-12 in March.

They've been right about March, though.

-5 persistence in DJF to +2 persistence in March. I’ll take it.

Jealous

They’re referring to the 12z euro yesterday.

it's all or nothing and wholly sun dependent ... either it's sunny and 60, or clouds and wet at 37 seems the models are trying for another incremental step out around the 1st of the month. .. 10 days I guess of soothing cat paws to the napes in between fake warm coffee breaks.

You only need to go back one page in this discussion to read about the setup.

Should’ve wore your gloves!

Signs of a return to action in the extended?

Yeah 52 here already and sunny. What a green up underway as well. Going to pull weeds that are already coming up in the rocks under my deck today.

very windy my hands were cold..

Partly sunny and 50 here I'll take it.

Nice day today. Already 50 here

Today will be low 50s for ANATT

We went from 70 degrees on March 9th to 40-50mph winds on March 13th to freezing rain on the 15th and 10 inches of snow on the 16th to 25 and sunny on the 17th and now 63 degrees yesterday and a forecast of 70 today. One of the craziest March rollercoasters for temps we have had it feels like.

ANATT

A bit surprised that Yuma's April record of 107 is so low. Both BOS and NYC have reached April heat to within 10° (or less) of their all time highs. I think Yuma has topped 125. Yesterday's 1.5" puts us an inch above last year's total, but it's 2.4" below our average thru March 21. Tonight/tomorrow is currently forecast as 4-7"; the higher amount would push the total to the April 1 average.

84 in the point for today now for MLI. The high temp was 24 there on Tuesday, so a potential 60 degree increase in 4 days. EDIT: Had to throw one last snowball after taking in the trash bins from the street. That way I can say that I threw a snowball on an 80 degree day lol.

sun's out, birds singing, no snow left. Sucks

Will have the latest bloom of our saucer magnolia in the 11 springs we’ve been in the house. By at least 2 weeks. Maybe more.

Meh give time, it’s nice in a lot of SNE. 48-51 around here partly cloudy, perfect late March weekend morning . I think you said this weekend was crap a few days ago, can’t really ask for much nicer weather here at least today except 10-15 degrees warmer.

That should make Wake County people feel a little better lol.

Meh. People expecting miraculous clearing between two systems this time of year should know better