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33 minutes ago, TheClimateChanger said:

April finished off as 5th warmest and 2nd wettest on record [3rd wettest if you include the Allegheny Arsenal records back to 1836 - there was reportedly over 9 inches in 1852]. While the month finished off in a solid 5th place for temperature, it was quite close to the record high, finishing just 0.4F below 2017.

Precipitation fell in an interesting pattern, with the first half of the month easily the wettest on record. The second half of the month was actually the 7th driest such period with just 0.30" of precipitation.

For the first 1/3 of the year, the mean temperature is 3rd warmest in the threaded record. Easily warmest at the airport site, being nearly a full degree warmer than 2017.

The average high temperature for the year to date is 2nd warmest in the threaded record.

Interesting to see 1942 in the dry 2nd halves of April. It just popped up on a list I ran for number of 80 degree days through May 3rd. If we get to 80 today, tomorrow and Friday, we’ll be at 9 days. The only year with more through 5/3 was 1942, with 11. Eight of those days occurred during the aforementioned dry 2nd half of April. Interestingly, the first half of April 1942 was the last time before the two days this year that we had 1.6” or more of precip on any April day.

Line of showers is dying. We’re not going to have our wettest April on record. Not complaining, that’s for sure. Just surprised.

6th warmest April on record with an outside shot at moving up to 5th if temps continue to go up like a rocket before the rain arrives.

2nd to only 2017 at PIT.

Can’t even do heat right. NWS was bullish on challenging today’s record of 88, PIT might end up with a high of 83.

1 minute ago, TheClimateChanger said:

Yeah, those sure seem bogus. Looks like the heat wave only hit Pittsburgh. 

The Buffalo and Erie data might lend a little support to the idea that it was hot that day. (The 2nd anyway).

13 minutes ago, TheClimateChanger said:

Second half of April has actually been among the driest of record thus far.

Another one I want your opinion on: are the record highs of 95 on May 2 and 3, 1887 even possibly legitimate? It looks like it was cool at the coast, and we were 10+ degrees warmer than both Baltimore/DC and Columbus/Cincinnati on those dates. These can’t possibly be real.

PIT has done the improbable and scored an 80 today, with probably 2 more to come. This is now the 4th straight April with 4+ 80 degree days, which had never happened in four consecutive years before.

11 hours ago, TheClimateChanger said:

If the forecast for the rest of the month is correct, we will finish with a mean temperature for the month of about 56.2F, which would be good for 7th warmest of record. Since 1955, only 2017 (57.3F) saw a warmer April. Also still a good chance at the #1 wettest April on record.

Probably going to come down to Tuesday. Rain seems to be done for today and we still need 0.19” to set that record. So one more shot at this. It’s actually incredible that we could fall short when we only needed half an inch of rain with 16 days left in the month.

Do I have to come in here and do Blizz’s dirty work?

Lol

With it looking less and less likely that we see another freeze, the final count may stand at 76 for the season. The previous lowest at PIT was 89 in 2016-17. 

With PIT failing to hit freezing this morning, we probably have one more shot at it on Thursday, which is trending warmer. Our last freeze on 4/7 would be tied for 11th earliest last freeze on record.

Looks like simply a warm front to cold front thing. 

10 minutes ago, TheClimateChanger said:

Looks like the nearby personal weather stations had a similar jump at that time. Possible heat burst from collapsing showers? This one Imperial went up above 65F and since cratered below 59F.

Wow that’s a nearly 20 degree jump overnight. 

Not sure I’m buying the temperature observations at PIT this morning. Jumped from 59 to 67 between the 7 and 8 am hourly observations. Everywhere else seemed to stay steady.

Nothing awful. Few sub-severe gusts with the front end of the line as it moved in and some thunder and lightning, mostly several miles away.

Overperformed our way to a 3rd 80 at PIT today. None of the days were forecast to get there.

4th year in a row that the temp has hit 82 before the halfway point of April. This had never happened in 3 consecutive years prior to this streak.

Interesting the way the western end of that line just died. We just seemed pretty starved for moisture which is fine after the last week and a half.

6 minutes ago, Voyager said:

I guess it's time to tell you guys.

This past Tuesday, I lost my mom. She passed peacefully late afternoon. She couldn't overcome the digestive system infection (c diff) that she contracted while in rehab for a broken hip.

I sat with her, holding her hand as she slipped away to the other side, reiterating that I loved her, but that I was ok, and that I wanted her to be pain free, to see again, and be with my dad and brother again.

We had some differences of opinion while I was here, but I hope my being here in Arizona was a comforting factor over the past year and a half that I spent with her.

Sorry to hear, man. I know you did so much for her in her final years.

Officially the wettest spring day on record, surpassing last Tuesday.

Looks like so much more rain to come.

And just like that it’s the 2nd wettest April day ever observed at the airport.

1 hour ago, TheClimateChanger said:

Also, the wettest first 10 days of April on record. This doesn't include the approximately 1/2-inch that's fallen today. We may have a top 10 wettest April on lock by midnight.

Looking at the weather records, there has only been one year with an April among both the 20 warmest and 20 wettest. April 1948 is 13th warmest in the threaded record (54.7F) and fourth wettest (6.03").

We’re now up to 1.52” at the airport today, so we’re already up to 4th with more rain tonight and 19 more days in the month.

9 minutes ago, TheClimateChanger said:

Accuweather suggesting we could approach a record high this afternoon. Yinz stay cool aht thar.

80 feels like such a soft record, considering we’ve been 78 in February and 80 in early March.