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The +2.1C OHC is extremely impressive. In the last 46 years only this year and 1997 accomplished that this early

Records: Highs: EWR: 90 (2009) NYC: 90 (2009) LGA: 89 (2009) JFK: 85 (2009) Lows: EWR: 33 (1934) NYC: 31 (1874) LGA: 36 (1947) JFK: 37 (1966) Historical: 1893: A half-mile wide estimated F4 tornado killed 23 people and injured 150 as it tore a path of devastation through Cisco, Texas. Every building in the town was either destroyed or severely damaged. 1898: The minimum temperature for the date is 33°F. in Washington, DC and also the latest measurable snow in Washington with 0.5 inches melted 0.29 inches. (Bob Ryan's 2000 Almanac) 1921 - A severe hailstorm in Anson County, NC, produced hail the size of baseballs. Gardens, grain fields and trees were destroyed. Pine trees in the storm's path had to be cut for lumber because of the hail damage. (The Weather Channel) 1928 - A coastal storm produced tremendous late season snows in the Central Appalachians, including 35 inches at Bayard WV, 31 inches at Somerset PA, and 30 inches at Grantsville MD. High winds accompanying the heavy wet snow uprooted trees and unroofed a number of homes. The storm caused great damage to fruit trees and wild life. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel) 1957: The maximum temperature for the date is 92°F. in Washington, DC. (Ref. Washington Weather Records - KDCA) 1973: The record crest of the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri was registered at 43.23 feet on this day. This level exceeded the previous 1785 mark by 1.23 feet. This record was broken during the 1993 Flood when the Mississippi River crested at 49.58 feet on August 1st. At Memphis, Tennessee, the Mississippi was over flood stage for 63 days, more than that of the historic 1927 flood, and the river was above flood stage for an even longer 107 days at upstream Cairo, Illinois. Out of the seven largest floods on the Mississippi between 1927 and 1997, the 1973 event ranked third in both volume discharged and duration but only sixth in flood height. Over $250 million of damages were incurred mainly in the Mississippi Valley states of Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana. 1987 - Twenty cities in the western and central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. Highs of 95 degrees at Houston TX, 95 degrees at Lake Charles LA, and 94 degrees at Port Arthur TX, were April records. (The National Weather Summary) 1988 - Miami, FL, hit 92 degrees, marking a record eight days of 90 degree heat in the month of April. Squalls produced snow in the Washington D.C. area. Belvoir VA reported a temperature reading of 57 degrees at the time the snow began. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary) 1989 - Strong northerly winds and heavy snow ushered cold air into the north central U.S. Snowfall totals in Montana ranged up to 20 inches at Miles City. Thunderstorms produced severe weather from eastern Texas to the Southern Appalachians and the southern Ohio Valley. Hail four and a half inches in diameter was reported at Keller TX and White Settlement TX. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary) 1990 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather in the southeastern U.S. during the day. Severe thunderstorms spawned four tornadoes, including one which injured four persons at Inman SC. There were also more than one hundred reports of large hail and damaging winds, with better than half of those reports in Georgia. Strong thunderstorm winds injured four people at Sadler's Creek SC. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) Twenty-nine cities in the northeastern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date as readings soared into the 80s and lower 90s. Highs of 88 degrees at Binghamton NY, 94 degrees at Buffalo NY, 89 degrees at Erie PA, 90 degrees at Newark NJ, 93 degrees at Rochester NY and 92 degrees at Syracuse NY, were records for the month of April. (The National Weather Summary) 1991: Memphis, Tennessee recorded their wettest April ever with 15.03 inches, breaking their previous record of 13.90 inches in 1872. 2002: During the evening hours, a violent F4 tornado carved a 64-mile path across southeast Maryland. The La Plata, Maryland tornado was part of a larger severe weather outbreak that began in the mid-Mississippi Valley early on that day and spread across portions of the Ohio Valley and the Mid-Atlantic States. In Maryland, three deaths and 122 injuries were a direct result of the storm. Property damage exceeded $100 million. Tornadoes along the Atlantic coast are not frequent, and tornadoes of this magnitude are extremely rare. Only six F4 tornadoes have occurred farther north and east of the La Plata storm: Worchester, Massachusetts - 1953; New York/Massachusetts - 1973; Windsor Locks, Connecticut - 1979; five counties in New York - 1989; New Haven, Connecticut - 1989; North Egremont, Massachusetts - 1995. None was as close to the coast. The tornado traveled across the Chesapeake Bay almost to the Atlantic.

Weird stuff with E flow

Steve Rudin said 0.5" to 1" tomorrow on the WJLA radio weather forecast...you can take that to the bank.

CON was just 50/3

Idk what came through here, but dews have absolutely crashed and it feels frigid with the breeze. 49/13 wtf is this

He’s got snow coming he said

Models are really drying up for central NC tomorrow. Keep in mind this area missed the rain this morning and generally had just 1/2” last weekend

This is what we get for a warm March.

His buds already have that leathery look.

72F today off a low of 33F. Just missed another 40 diurnal swing. Felt great wearing shorts past couple days.

Exactly. This year last freeze/frost is not that much different than in the past. If so, only by a little. No need to think fruit crops are in serious jeopardy. RedSky is turning into drought guy thinking the world will end if we're off by a little from average. Calm down and have some wine. Oh wait, you can't, the grape vines are destroyed from the freeze! May God help us....

Maybe by the end of May you'll start greening up.

radar from over an hour ago at Mineral Wells, TX

They say this is Mineral Wells TX

2.75" and 4.5" hail reports with this storm west of Cleburne

large tornado possibly on the ground

Grapefruit size hail reported from the fairly massive HP supercell ongoing just northwest of Cleburne. Already lots of hail reports today in NTX.

I was in St Charles. Based on the track of the storm, we were probably 3 miles or so from actual storm track. And we were clueless. We weren't watching a local channel on cable TV, so no storm warnings were popping up. Wasn't until my girlfriend called and ask if we were OK, and told me a tornado went through La Plata that we had a clue. I drove down to La Plata the next weekend when I went to visit my Dad that I saw the obvious track of the tornado. The utter destruction at 301 & Rt 6... A fast food restaurant with nothing left but a slab and about a foot of plumbing pipes sticking out of the concrete.

EPS has first half of May -6.5F

Last freeze and last frost are not the same. Just had a frost at 37F

Freeze killed my Japanese maple and redbud never seen that before.

I already posted it was the latest 24 and 25F for many area. The lower the temp the more it kills.

I have found a site that allows you to trade future monthly US Temperature IBKR ForecastTrader May is currently going for 62F. Over or under? +NAO March, which you pointed out as a huge anomaly rolled forward to this May pattern When something is counter-intuitive like that (instead of warm begetting warm), I take note of it as something going on in the evolution of pattern

They have been overly bullish the last few events. They were calling for up to 1.5 inches of rain. Now it's only .25 to .50 here. I think closer to .25 unless the a heavy cell or thunderstorm moves close by.