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DCA: 101 IAD: 102 BWI: 101 RIC: 101

Thundering big time here, just waiting on the rain.

My numbers for the month of April 2024 Averaged high was 68.3 degrees vs a normal of 66.2 degrees, a +2.1 degrees above average. The warmest day was the last, the 30th with a 85.5 degree reading. Averaged low was 43.8 degrees vs a normal of 38.9 degrees, a +4.9 degrees above average and places it as 4th warmest averaged low for the month. The coldest temp recorded was 27.2 degrees on the 7th. Overall averaged temp was 56.1 degrees vs a normal of 52.5 degrees, a +3.6 degrees above average. Total precip for the month was 4.00 inches vs a normal of 3.64 inches, a +0.36 above average. The wettest day was the 12th with 2.34 inches falling. There were 15 days with measurable, 3 days with a 'T' and 12 dry days. Total snowfall for the month was a 'T', which happened on two consecutive days, the 5th and 6th vs a normal of 0.3 inches, a -0.3 inches below average. There were no days with measurable snow on the ground. Highest wind for the month was 44 mph. There were 15 days with winds above 25 mph. Two new records, the 2.34 inches of rain set a new daily record on the 12th, and a new record 'warm max' was set on the 3rd. Overall another warm month, fairly wet and windy. Records go back to Oct 1979.

Thank you, Toronto. Finally a game 7. Pulling for Nash and Vegas to move those series to a game 7. Firm believer in series going 6 minimum, the more hockey, the better.

OOPS! DCA: +1.6 NYC: +1.3 BOS: +1.1 ORD: +0.9 ATL: +0.7 IAH: +1.4 DEN: +0.4 PHX: -0.5 SEA: -0.8

Yep. 53.8/85.5 here. Not a record, that still stands from 2017 at 86.8 degrees.

20 degrees warmer this morning. Had some sprinkles overnight.

Caps played better, but down 2-0 headed home.

Currently 33.5 here after a 31.8 low.

31.4 for a low. No frost/freeze warning here due to official growing season not started. I THINK it's 5/1.

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Hey! An almost 'normal' April day! 67.2/44.3 vs 67.5/40.8. Been a while it seems....

**looks around at the 'greenness' after just cutting the grass for 2nd time this week** Currently at 3.97 for the month here, the 5 CO-OPs within 30 miles of the house running 2.75-4.03 as of today.

Yeah, I had two decent looking areas head my way today, only for them to dissipate and turn south at the last minute. I MAY have 0.01 in the gauge lol.

A great response and I agree totally. I've never 'chased' by myself, only with my son on a few occasions. The part about driving AND keeping up with radar/warnings/sky conditions keeps me from trying solo myself. BTW awesome last pic!

Light rain here this morning, looks like a much larger and heavier round incoming in next hour or so.

Yep, only cold hardy stuff out now. I generally don't put anything that likes warm (or dislikes cold) until May 15-20.

Agree, I mowed Saturday, needs it again.

Well, as someone earlier posted, my experience was VERY different. In 2017 I was on top of a mountain off Foothills Parkway in eastern TN, seeing that darkness close in from a distance was awesome! Being in central TX with small elevation changes you couldn't tell/see it closing in. However, it WAS a longer period of darkness than 2017. We had partly cloudy skies and missed about 30-45 seconds of the start of totality because of it, but the rest was awesome. Their neighbor has chickens and both the roosters carried on like it was morning once the sun broke back out. We saw an awesome bright eruption on the south/lower side of the sun during, and then the ring once the moon started clearing the sun. We got to our location about 4 hours in advance (visiting her relatives) and then stayed another day, so travel was not an issue for us.

ALL of these are really weird, whoever made them likes the Simpons I believe, but here is an idea and you can follow all the rest if you wish.

I have a 20x15 spot I'd like to try something like this, partial shade though..... same seed types?

More like a football score

Do the bit 'extra' and drive the 5-10 miles to get to totality. You will thank us ALL for the difference. I'm gonna be on the centerline west of Waco (4:30 of darkness) to enjoy. Whether cloudy or sunny, we are meeting some of her family so it has a duel purpose.

Third or fourth round of rain/sleet/graupel/snow here. Almost whitens ground then stops and sun pops out a short bit to go back to previous. Temp hits 44-47 when sun is out, drops into mid 30's when precip falls. Currently 38.1/32.4 with all the above precip falling and a WNW wind at 8 gusting to 23.

Wet period. Not quite an inch in gauge though. Set (tied) a warm minimum for the date (54.7), had gusty winds and hail with at least three separate thunderstorms. Lightly raining at 8 am with 58/56 and a barometer still dropping at 29.35!