April 2026

[Brian5671]

28 minutes ago, JLPhill said:

I'm a longtime follower and infrequent poster who grew up on the South Shore but now lives in Huntington Station. I'm a little confused by the complaints about this spring. Maybe it's because I'm used to the relentless sea breezes on the South Shore, but this spring has been well above average in terms of temperature and overall weather.

My ambient station, which is well-sited and typically runs highs somewhere between LGA and FRG, is showing an average high temperature of 57.3 from March 1 through today: 52.6 in March and 63.4 in April. That feels closer to a Central Jersey spring than a Long Island one.

Even the data that @bluewave shared shows JFK/ISP at 55.5/54.3 average spring-to-date, versus normals of 52.7 and 51.9 with precip below normal.

Definitely been warm since 3/1 or so.  With regard to April have to consider the 5 days of +20 to +30 skewing things abit.   But I'm in your camp-so far we've done ok this spring.   Some years it seems like we get days and days of stratus and 45 degrees

[jm1220]

14 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

Definitely been warm since 3/1 or so.  With regard to April have to consider the 5 days of +20 to +30 skewing things abit.   But I'm in your camp-so far we've done ok this spring.   Some years it seems like we get days and days of stratus and 45 degrees

Spring is just typically a lousy season here. The best weather months here are Sept-Oct when you still have the warmed up ocean waters but the heat waves are over. 

[JLPhill]

53 minutes ago, jm1220 said:

Spring is just typically a lousy season here. The best weather months here are Sept-Oct when you still have the warmed up ocean waters but the heat waves are over. 

I don't disagree with that. I think my expectations are appropriately low given the climate. We could also live in Boston. 

[LongBeachSurfFreak]

Today ended up being a perfect spring day. Mid 60s when I went for a run earlier. As soon as the wind switched to SE the temp dropped but it’s still nice in the sun.


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[jm1220]

19 minutes ago, JLPhill said:

I don't disagree with that. I think my expectations are appropriately low given the climate. We could also live in Boston. 

Boston also regularly gets 40"+ per winter. That's their cost for the good winters. 

GFS looks generally putrid for the remainder of the month into May with blocky wet nastiness. Hope people are enjoying today.