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What are your thoughts thus far about where this niño could be headed? Basin wide strong seems like it could be in the works but obviously its still too early to know

Daily record warm low secured (62). This is tied with 3/27/1998 as the only days this early in the season to have a low of 62 or higher in the Pittsburgh International era. This is also already the third day this year with a low in the 60s, moving ahead of last year for the most so early in the season at Pittsburgh International (1952-present). These are the only years to have more than one. Number of days on or before April 3rd to have a low in the 60s at Pittsburgh International: 1952-2024: 4 2025-2026: 5 This is getting to be like the steroid era in baseball.

Let's see if we can shake off some drought the rest of this Spring-Summer-Fall. What do you all think?

Well, it's April. 26.2" snow this season (15th out of my 16 winters here, after 2011-12), may not be over yet but time to start a new thread for the "warmer half" of the year.

73F at midnight. We've had a number of nights like this over the past month. Pretty abnormal for this time of year.

“It is human nature to think the weather we experience has some sort of global significance. But look at NOAA’s best estimate of March 2026 temperature departures from “normal” (1991-2020 average) over North America (below). Yeah, the U.S. was unusually warm. But what about all the unusual chill over the northern parts of North America? Alaska and most of Canada were below normal. As part of our monthly global temperature updates (posted separately) here are the March temperature departures from normal for the lower troposphere, 1979 through 2026 in the Lower 48 (top panel of Fig. 2). Last month was clearly the warmest in the 48-year satellite temperature record. But when we examine the bottom panel in Fig. 2 we see that, averaged over all land areas of the Northern Hemisphere (including Canada and Alaska), March 2026 was uneventful, and was even cooler than 2024 and 2025. In fact, 2026 was right on the long-term trend line. The message here is that the unusual (and likely record) warmth of March 2026 in the U.S. was largely due to normal month-to-month weather variations, while the large-scale climate signal shows March was a continuation of the slow (and largely benign, and possibly even beneficial) warming trend we have been experiencing in recent decades.” https://www.drroyspencer.com/2026/04/march-2026-satellite-temperatures-record-warmth-in-u-s-but-uneventful-for-the-northern-hemisphere/

Wow, that is really cool. Love that old vibe, so much simpler.

Still only 41 here. At least the dews are up?

Just went outside, put my coat on to go out and realized I didn't actually need it.

It's been hovering around 60 here. Was 59 when I shut the door earlier.

Powderfreak with the windows open while the heat is on here

mid 70s here at 11pm - glorious.

Im assuming everyone already saw the new “retro” weather forecast on the weather channel? Straight back to high school…Local on the 8s, narrator and music included! https://weather.com/retro/

Hard to argue with how this winter went, although I certainly would've liked to have seen more than 5" at a time. I ended the year with right at 20", pretty solid and right on average. I've seen plenty of below-average winters since moving up here so an average year is a win for me. That absolutely gorgeous December snow also gives a boost.

One for the ages, 13 inches of cement on the ground here. I'll never forget watching it rip down big, wet, silver dollar + sized flakes. Started around 3pm here and fell overnight. Probably close to 20 inches fell, but there was lots of compacting for 13 inches on the ground.

Will do.

I'd be so happy, in fact I'd be so REBORN from the April Fools Blizzard of 2026 in Washington, DC with 39 inches of fresh snow, that I'd fly in on a red-eye just for the occasion.

Please hid my thread Michelle. I'll gladly take a little less than an inch out of the front. Here's to a typical Season with no damaging Tropical Mischief!

Its getting close to 4 dollars a gallon in Buda.

I'll believe it when I see it...

My numbers for the month of March 2026. Total precip was 2.12 inches vs a normal of 3.52 inches, -1.40 inches below average. The greatest rainfall was on the 16th with 0.65" falling. There were 13 days with measurable, 1 day with a 'T' and 17 dry days. Total snowfall for the month was 0.5 inches vs a normal of 4.5 inches, -4.0 inches below average. The greatest snowfall was 0.4" on the 17th. There were 2 days with measurable, 2 days with a 'T' and 27 snowless days. The average high temp was 62.9 degrees vs a normal of 54.4 degrees, a +8.5 degrees above average. The warmest temp recorded was 83.9 degrees on the 23rd. The averaged low temp was 34.2 degrees vs a normal of 30.0 degrees, a + 4.2 degrees above average. The coolest temp recorded was 17.0 degrees on the 18th. Overall averaged temp was 48.6 degrees vs the normal of 42.2 degrees, a + 6.4 degrees above average and places it into a tie for 3rd warmest March with 1997. There were 17 days with winds above 25 mph. Several new records, 3 new record highs on the 7th, 12th and the 23rd. One new record 'cool max' set on the 18th. A wild and weird month, overall very warm and dry, with several days that went from near record highs to snow within hours. And several days the exact opposite of going from a very cool morning to near record highs by with 40+ degree swings.

Yupp. Got a lil sun burnt doing garden clean up. Once the sun burned off the fog and mist it got warm real quick.

I'll take almost an inch and be happy! Here is to a typical Spring/Summer period with NO Tropical mischief!

Not a problem thanks for the forecast. @donsutherland1 @MJO812 we will be starting May forecasts to be due back at May 1st by 6z and each month after for the future. Would love to see everyone still participate but of course life happens. I will do my best to make it as close to what Roger was trying to do for these contests as we go along.