TheClimateChanger

With spring about halfway through, currently warmest April to date and 3rd warmest season to date [warmest in the KPIT era]. April is running about 1°F above 2010, and spring to date 0.5°F above 2012. Honestly, I'm more surprised it has been the 2nd wettest spring to date. I know it has been fairly wet, but I didn't know it had been that wet (we really haven't had any significant, widespread flooding or anything). 3rd warmest spring:

Incredible! Downloaded data from SERCC (observations from March 1-April 14, forecast values through April 19) reveals nearly 80 long-term threaded stations are in the midst of their warmest spring on record, calculated by average daily high temperature. Led by Huntington, West Virginia, where the first 50 days of spring has seen a mean high temperature of 72.8F, an astounding 12.1F above the 1991-2020 mean. Again, that's a 50-day average!

Here's where we could be sitting on Friday, with current forecast values. Hottest spring on record to date: Columbus, OH; Cincinnati, OH; all of Kentucky; Evansville, IN; and Springfield, MO. Top 2-5: Kansas City, MO; Des Moines, IA; Waterloo, IA; Moline, IL; Rockford, IL; Peoria, IL; Springfield, IL; Columbia, MO; Indianapolis, IN; South Bend, IN; Fort Wayne, IN; Toledo, OH; Dayton, OH; Mansfield, OH; Cleveland, OH; Akron/Canton, OH; Youngstown, OH. Top 6-10: Detroit, MI; Flint, MI; Lansing, MI; Grand Rapids, MI; Chicago, IL; Milwaukee, IL; Sioux City, IA; Dubuque, IA; La Crosse, WI; Minneapolis, MN; Rochester, MN. Really feel for those in the far north who apparently have missed out. Dare I say it - best climo ever?

Best spring in the history of America.

Hmm, maybe because the old measurements are biased low? Snowfall measurement: a flaky history | NCAR & UCAR News

Unreal. This may go into the annals as the most pleasant spring in the history of the City of Pittsburgh. Already up to 29 days at or above 60F (T-most), and 13 days at or above 70F (T-3rd most). Tomorrow will be close to 60F, but the ensuing 6 days are 70s and 80s. Count on those two should be 35/36 & 19, respectively, by next Friday, with even warmer temperatures possible next weekend.

I'm sure the observer in Toronto was lying about how much snow used to fall as well.

Are we sure these correlations apply in this new regime? If we look at April 1997, it was 5th coldest on record, but this year seems destined for back to back record warm months. The NBM numbers would bring us up to about +5.5F (1991-2020 climo) by the 18th/19th timeframe, whereas the current record is +3.4 in 2006.

Looks like good, sound records to me. The snowfall and liquid equivalents make sense.

What motive would they have to lie about how much snow fell? Newark is not the same climate as Detroit. It could have been colder and drier in Detroit than present.

This is unbelievable: