April 2013 General Discussion Part 2

[daddylonglegs]

18z GFS is ohhhh so nice...  mid 60Fs Fri/Sat/70F Sun///maybe mid/upper 70Fs by Tues... 

 

awesomeness!!!!!!!!

[Geos]

I think there is a few flakes mixing in with the rain here

 

Edit: Was some bright banding for a bit there. Rain started looking white.

[weatherbo]

18z GFS is ohhhh so nice... mid 60Fs Fri/Sat/70F Sun///maybe mid/upper 70Fs by Tues...

awesomeness!!!!!!!!

If I lived in the UP, I'd invest in sandbags!

[BowMeHunter]

Going to be quite the shock once that cold front hits southern Illinois in the 70's.  Even I'm happy this 30's and rain bs is living on borrowed times now..

 

Looks like AC weather is not too far off...  hoping that big ridge is not going to set up shop again like the past few summers or else tropical and hoosier are going to get the last laugh lol.

 

[Jonger]

Interesting stuff coming out of Fargo.... Records shattered.

 

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=fgf&storyid=94031&source=0

 

This is 4 days old... Probably needs some updates though.

[Jonger]

Snowiest month of all time in Duluth, MN.

 

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=dlh&storyid=93989&source=0

 

 

 

Sorry if this is a repost.

[Jonger]

If I lived in the UP, I'd invest in sandbags!

 

I'm going to follow lake Superior lake levels, but I wouldn't be shocked if a record rise occurs. Not record levels, just a record rise.

[Jonger]

 

WTF is that embedded line moving toward me?

[Geos]

Quote from Skilling tonight:

 

 

 

It's official! April 2013 is now the wettest in 143 years of official weather observations. It's blown past the 66 yr old previous record for Apr of 8.33" set in 1947. With rain still falling, O'Hare's picked 0.53" thus far pushing its April tally to 8.36"--247% the normal full April precip total of 3.38". Off WxBug-here are other totals: 0.68" Flossmoor; 0.67 Streator; 0.64 Schaumburg; 0.63 S Elgin; 0.60 Roselle;0.59 Mundelein; 0.58 Lk Geneva. Big wet flakes of snow reptd with rain at Cary and a mix is likely in other locations as cold air continues to ride N winds into the area.

 

[Stebo]

WUNIDS_map.gif

 

WTF is that embedded line moving toward me?

Cold Front

[Brewers]

MKE climate report shows 7.32" of rain for the month thus breaking the record.

 

Top ten April rainfall totals for MKE

 

7.32"* - 2013

7.31" - 1973

7.09" - 1909

6.99" - 1877

6.64" - 1993

6.14" - 1999

5.83" - 1878

5.90" - 1921

5.75" - 2011

5.69" - 1893

 

 

[Harry Perry]

Glad to see forecast highs going up with new model runs vs dropping 5-10 degrees per run.

Might be our flipping of the switch comes this weekend. PNA goes pretty strongly positive for the most part.

I feel many of us will be in for a very "humid" spring/summer after all this rain. Might be good for severe weather and ushering in those 70 degree dew points

[cyclone77]

Today's 0.47" of cold rain brings the monthly total up to a ridiculous 9.90".  Many many farm fields around here completely under water. 

[beavis1729]

Snowiest month of all time in Duluth, MN.

 

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=dlh&storyid=93989&source=0

 

 

 

Sorry if this is a repost.

Good catch...gotta love it when the Top 3 snowiest months aren't even in meteorological winter.

 

All-time snowiest months - Duluth MN

(1) 51.0" in April 2013

(2) 50.1" in November 1991

(3) 48.2" in March 1917

[cyclone77]

The local news just had a pretty cool story on about a christmas tree farm in the QC.  They had done a story last summer on how the farm was losing hundreds of trees due to the extreme heat and drought.  Showed video of the farmer digging up the very dry soil.  Tonight they showed the whole farm was under about 5 feet of flood water, with only the tops of the trees visible over the water.  What a difference a year makes.

[Chicago Storm]

 

Chasing vacation starts May 10th. 

Better hope the pattern changes.

[Geos]

0.62" of cold rain today. 7.32" month to date now.

[daddylonglegs]

WARMING INTO THE UPPER 60S TO MIDDLE 70S ON SATURDAY AND
SUNDAY. TRENDED THE HIGHS SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY ABOVE MODEL
CONSENSUS WITH STRONG RIDGING SIGNAL PAST FEW RUNS. SOME OF THE
RAW MODEL OUTPUT SUGGESTS HIGHS POSSIBLY REACHING THE UPPER 70S TO
EVEN NEAR 80 EARLY NEXT WEEK.

 

La Crosse...  I'll call it...80F at my pad on Monday

[BowMeHunter]

   3:25 am, can't fall back to sleep, robins are already going nuts, I'm a light sleeper and screwed..   So now, I'm bored and was surprised last night to see our Observed High avg temp was almost 47 degrees for the first 23 days of April..  Doesn't sound like allll that cold of a month so far but, I knew there was no way that represents the crap weather we've had during the time when most people would be outside.   Soo, I used the hourly observation temp readings from, 6:52 am through 6:52 pm for a total of 13 hourly readings a day from April 1st through the 23rd for a total of 299 hrs.

185 of the hourly obs were in the 20's or 30's.

49 of the hourly obs we're between 40.0-44.9

65 of the hourly obs were @ or above 45 degrees.

 

We've had 4 hourly obs @ 60 or above  and 1 intra-hr 61 after dark so far this month.
 

 

We did have almost a handful of nice days in April and a total of 39 daylight hrs above 50.

April 4th had 8 hourly obs at 50 or above.

April 6th had 6 hrs above and an intra-hour 61 after dark.

April 15th with 12 hrs above 50.  Also was our big torch day..  Hit 60+ at 4 hourly readings..  1:52 am was 60.1 - 1:52 pm was 61 along with 2:52 and 3:52 pm at 61.. 6:52 pm we were back down to 48 degrees.

April 22nd with 10

And one day which I forget had 1 hr at 50 or above.

 

Avg high/low temps - April 1st are  48/33  and  April 23rd is 57/40

[BowMeHunter]

oops...  8th-14th Milwaukee had high temps of  50, 39, 38, 38, 43, 40 and 49

 

[Chicago WX]

1.03" storm total at LAF through 7:00 AM this morning. Brings the April total to 7.94".

 

Precipitation comparison between last year and this year at this time.

 

April (thru 4/24)

2012: 1.25" -1.53"

2013: 7.94" +5.16"

 

Since March 1 (thru 4/24)

2012: 3.17" -2.28"

2013: 9.19" +3.74"

 

Year to date (thru 4/24)

2012: 6.72" -2.35"

2013: 15.14" +6.07"

 

 

Updated: 8.22" this April, through 9:00 AM, at Indianapolis. Good for 3rd place all time (April records since 1871). 

 

1) 8.60" in 1893

2) 8.55" in 1922

3) 8.22" in 2013 (thru 9 AM today)

4) 8.09" in 1964

5) 7.98" in 2011

[The_Global_Warmer]

Large snow flakes reported in St. Charles County, MO(20 min from STL).

[BowMeHunter]

1.03" storm total at LAF through 7:00 AM this morning. Brings the April total to 7.94".

 

Precipitation comparison between last year and this year at this time.

 

April (thru 4/24)

2012: 1.25" -1.53"

2013: 7.94" +5.16"

 

Since March 1 (thru 4/24)

2012: 3.17" -2.28"

2013: 9.19" +3.74"

 

Year to date (thru 4/24)

2012: 6.72" -2.35"

2013: 15.14" +6.07"

 

 

8.01" this April, through 7:00 AM, at Indianapolis. Good for 4th place all time (records since 1871). Still raining there, so 3rd place looks doable/probable. 

 

1) 8.60" in 1893

2) 8.55" in 1922

3) 8.09" in 1964

4) 8.01" in 2013 (thru 7AM today)

5) 7.98" in 2011

 

Poor farmers can't win..  isn't this ( i have no clue) around corn planting season especially south of you.  Hope for a dry next couple weeks..  Pump that ridge into Canada and give them rain and severe.  May is not the worst time to torch for us and we surely could use it mostly dry for  some weeks.

[Chicago WX]

Poor farmers can't win..  isn't this ( i have no clue) around corn planting season especially south of you.

 

I really don't know, but this article from Purdue Ag says April 20 to May 10 (one week later for northern IN) is the conventional dates for planting to "maximize" yields. Alas, not much "panic" yet in that article.

 

http://www.agry.purdue.edu/ext/corn/news/timeless/PltDateCornYld.html

[BowMeHunter]

 

I really don't know, but this article from Purdue Ag says April 20 to May 10 (one week later for northern IN) is the conventional dates for planting to "maximize" yields. Alas, not much "panic" yet in that article.

 

http://www.agry.purdue.edu/ext/corn/news/timeless/PltDateCornYld.html

 

 

Well that's good news if we can stay relatively dry so the farmers can get out and do their thing. 

 

Economy doesn't need back to back terrible farming seasons.

[Chicago WX]

0.12" last hour at IND, so 3rd place has been achieved.

 

Storm total up to 1.67" as of 9:00 AM.

 

Also, this is now the 15th wettest start to the year in recorded history for Indianapolis.

 

January through April total precipitation rankings for Indianapolis (since 1872).

1) 25.33" in 1950

2) 24.52" in 1890

3) 23.10" in 1904

4) 20.81" in 1882

5) 20.25" in 1913

6) 20.23" in 1876

7) 20.22" in 1893

8) 19.94" in 1880

9) 19.34" in 1964

10) 19.16" in 2011

11) 18.96" in 1961

12) 18.43" in 1922

13) 18.13" in 1874

14) 18.03" in 1898

15) 17.96" in 2013 thru 9 AM this morning

15) 17.81" in 2005

16) 17.16" in 1873

17) 17.07" in 1939

18) 16.99" in 1927

19) 16.80" in 1975

20) 16.76" in 1897

[A-L-E-K]

 

I really don't know, but this article from Purdue Ag says April 20 to May 10 (one week later for northern IN) is the conventional dates for planting to "maximize" yields. Alas, not much "panic" yet in that article.

 

http://www.agry.purdue.edu/ext/corn/news/timeless/PltDateCornYld.html

 

 

might actually be perfect...we should have a decent stretch of mild and sunny days coming up to dry up the top most layers.

[Chicago WX]

might actually be perfect...we should have a decent stretch of mild and sunny days coming up to dry up the top most layers.

 

Might be. Have to get the standing water out of the fields first. 

 

I guess this would be the concerning part, per the article I linked:

 

However, the specter of seriously delayed planting is clearly on the horizon because little other spring fieldwork has been completed due to the frequent and sometimes excessive rainfall in recent weeks. For some growers, tillage operations, herbicide applications, and nitrogen fertilizer applications must be completed first before they can consider planting their crops.

[hm8]

Already the wettest April on record for Flint and Saginaw (5.92" and 7.05" respectively)

[beavis1729]

Not exactly in our sub-forum...but Amarillo TX destroyed their record low this morning.  The low was 20F; the old record was 32F in 1913.  You don't often see a 100-year old record broken by 12 degrees.