Hurricane Agnes

Thankfully I picked up 1.02" of rain over the 2-day weekend most of it Saturday night. Had put down some fertilizer hoping I wouldn't jinx it and didn't. More is forecast for the middle of the week. Got up to 70 for a high after a low of 40. Currently a sunny 68 with dp 44.

Got a measley 0.10" on Sunday over a long period of time but I guess it was better than nothing. No frozen from it though! I did bottom out at 31 this morning and was trying to remember whether someone called the last freeze "the last of the season". Currently mostly sunny and 52 with dp 27.

Hit my first 90 of the calendar year just after 2pm today IMBY. The last time the temp was at or above 90 was back on August 17 with a 92. My current weather station (bought in the summer of 2020), has the highest April temps at 87 (2021), 85 (2022), 86 (2023), 88 (2024), & 81 (2025). My old weather station goes back to 2015 with 79 (2015), 81 (2016), 84 (2017), 82 (2018), 80 (2019), 73 (2020). All I know is that there tends to be some week in April, for the most part, where we get into the 80s (and even upper 80s) for a brief time (usually a couple days), and then it goes back to normal (or below). For anyone living in an apartment complex with cooling-tower supplied AC, you are usually SOL (because those buildings don't usually switch over from heat to AC until around May 15)! Currently partly cloudy and 86 with dp 64.

I know KYW heavily reported on that. it's the season in Jersey! CPC (or what is left of it) put out their last La Nina Advisory and has started an El Nino Watch - https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.shtml There was some historical data compiled for strong El Nino years to show general trends. The data goes back to the late '50s through to 2016 - https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/dyk/el-nino As an obs, I bottomed out at 42 this morning and am currently a sunny 57 with dp 37.

It got up to 71 just before 11 am before the front came through and knocked the reps down about 15 degrees. Ended up with 0.38" in the bucket, but that was over a 5 hour period, so no gully washers. It did get pretty humid around the frontal passage though. Currently 52 with dp 44.

Ended up hitting 80 as a high Tues & Wed. but only got to 60 today (with that temp coming at midnight). Currently a raw and misty 41 with dp 41.

Did someone forget to turn off the GFS 10-day snow machine? I bottomed out at 28 this morning (good radiational cooling although I have flowering things budded up) and 30 yesterday morning. They keep threatening about "the heat dome" coming this way but that forecast seems to be jumbled at our latitude. Anyway... currently 46 with 27 dp.

Tornado Watch lofted (pretty big expanse now that they added us to the MA folks) - Currently 63 with dp 62. Have 0.61" in the bucket from the earlier round of rain.

Back edge is moving through, the sky is brightening, and the sun is trying to come out. Ended up with 0.25" of snow, trace of sleet/ip, and 0.26" of rain/snow/ip melt in the bucket. Anything that had coated or dusted any surfaces, has melted. Currently overcast but clearing and 35, with dp 35.

So far got a 0.25" that coated the coldest surfaces (i.e., the car tops), with some dusting of the mulch and grass that quickly melts. But what is on the cars has mostly turned to liquid mush. Currently SN- and 34 with dp 34.

After 2 days of highs of 80, I have fatties flying (earlier had some trace pingers). Made it up to 64 as a high before the bottom fell out. Currently SN with little or no stickage, and 35 with dp 33.

Even with the "threatening" radar, am only getting some drizzle and graupel (with the latter only barely visible on cold surfaces). Currently 33 with dp 29.

As a ranking, for the past 20 years posting here on EasternWx/AmWx, this season came in 5th highest.

Looks like my high today will be 56 (which happened just before 3 pm), after a 27 low. This is the warmest day since this past Dec. 19., which hit 57 here. Still have massive plowed mounds around the area that might be here for weeks unless there is sustained warmth and maybe rain. The NE-facing spots still have about an inch or two remaining. In any case, it's a cloudless 55 with dp 39.

We have definitely seen the huge and "curious" (and territorial but not too aggressively so) Carpenter bees, so know where their holes were (which were bigger). These holes were definitely downy woodpecker pecks! The downies are much smaller than the pilated that she has in the area too that pop up every once in awhile.