Brian D

Interesting chart from NWS Duluth. Been really quiet on the storm front this year. And the upcoming forecast is pretty quiet as well for the next 7 days. Looks like 2016, 2018, and 2019 had similar later starts.

This something you normally see in NE MN this time of year, not N IL/IN. Enjoy the chill.

I downloaded and used anomalies for the charts. Cleaner bar chart, and can clearly see the trends as before. https://psl.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/data/testdap/timeseries.pl

Well, April data in and was considered a little above the norm with WI and MI ending pretty mild for April with the rest of us near avg.

Quack quick quurk! LOL

Darn close call. Looks like the wet weather will be coming quickly through on Ma's day with some early am snow possible for some. I thought it would be through, except for lingering wx in the east, but looks like that won't happen till evening.

Made it into the low 80's today. An awesome summer day on the 1st of May. Top 5 heat with some records broke. But tomorrow, reality sets in with more normal early May weather on tap. Chilly Lake winds and some rain possible (mainly south of me).

After a chilly, wet few days in the 30s and 40s, finally going above 50 today. Back to more avg temps and sunshine. Could even see mid 60s here by Saturday.

Snowed again last night. Turned my newly greened up lawn into a sea of white for a while. Since then steady light rain today with about a 1/2" so far. Temps running in the mid-upper 30's this aftrn. Temps slated to warm back to more avg levels later this week. Will feel real good to have 55-60 deg weather back.

My Father's day forecast has a cold front entering our region kicking off shwrs/stms.

Looks like long range GFS is picking up what I saw for Ma's day. Couple weeks to go tho.

Well it's snowing again today. I think we have had more snow days in April than all winter lol . All under an inch tho, but it has been a chilly second half of the month. A couple warm days mixed in, only to be turned into cold and snow.

April has sure been warm for its start this year. The first week had anomalies up +20-25. The last week tho has been pretty avg. The next few days look avg to colder. Much needed rain the last few days. Total for April is running around 2" which is about double the avg for this time of year.

Be careful guys, we have already pushed the envelope for this post. Climate change mantra has it's own category on the forum. We are suppose to be focused on April. A little OT isn't too bad, but AGW talk is for somewhere else. Thanks guys!

Been snowing lightly today. Very chilly out. So much for the summery easter weather. Whopping 36 for a high today. LOL

Here's some info I came across that may help. Surfing for stuff like this is fun. In 1874, the station instrumentation at Chicago (a major station) included "Two standard barometers, three standard thermometers, one standard minimum thermometer, one standard maximum thermometer, one standard water-thermometer, one standard hygrometer, one standard anemometer, one self-register for anemometer, one standard wind-vane, one standard rain-gauge." At Dodge City, Kansas (a lesser station) the instrumentation included "One standard barometer, one standard thermometer, one standard minimum thermometer, one standard maximum thermometer, one standard hygrometer, one standard anemometer, one small wind-vane, one standard rain gauge." https://www.analogweather.com/-signal-service.html And they were doing 3 times a day measurements.

Not into the why it's happening. It just has happened. Just like going into the 30's, or going into the 50's. Noted climate shifts. Going into the 2000's. Now, when is the next one going to happen? Hope to be around to see it, and got a feeling we are getting close to another one.:)

The one thing I noticed, is that since the Super El Nino of 1998, there has been a noted shift in the climate for our region. The annual really bears that out clearly. The seasons themselves may have started to shift a little before or after that, but 1998 sure was a defining moment in weather history for us overall IMHO.

I put these charts up for the seasons and the annual for our region so you folks talking of the changes can get a glimpse of what has been, and what things look like now in comparison. I think we do a great disservice to the observers of the past by calling their work suspect. Then and now, they all do their best. It's pretty easy to point to this issue or that to discredit the data that has been collected, but the record in the US is the best in the world. The CRN network is probably the most pristine we have at the moment, but is very short. These are a fair representation of the last 200 years of our region. It'll be awesome to see how it works out over time. I think I have a few more years to go.

Gloomy weather persists up here. Area has seen around an inch of rain so far. Fairly steady light rain/drizzle since yesterday morning. Maybe another inch of rain by the end of this sometime late tomorrow into Wed. Some snow on tap, mainly west of me, with a couple inches on tap for them by Wed morning.

I posted in "Off Topic" concerning this.

I'm expecting a couple days of rain (1-2") to move in starting tomorrow. Cool, easterly fetch and wet. Very typical April weather.

Just curious, but this SO2 plume could have an effect on the coming summer. Something to watch. It is being lifted to about 16km. Any more big puffs like this and it probably will have a decent impact. Watch for real cool sunsets in the coming weeks or at least pics of them from different places around the world.

With March temp data in here's how we look on long term record. Definitely one of the warmer March's on record.

Much needed rain on its way with some thunder mixed in. Might get a little squirrely down towards the Twin Cities with the hot early April weather. Record highs possible!