April 2026 General Discussion

[Torchageddon]

7 hours ago, TheClimateChanger said:

Really feel for those in the far north who apparently have missed out. Dare I say it - best climo ever? 

I may not be north enough to be considered far but I'm furious this rainy week will dim my spring jollies. The lack of sun is killing the mood. I don't buy this, but TWN doesn't give me a partly sunny day until Apr 21!!! With the last 3 weeks being mostly dark gloom, many of us near the lakes would go stark raving mad with a wem that bad.

[A-L-E-K]

Garden variety wakeup showers

[cyclone77]

Looks like storms will mostly stay north and east today like yesterday.  We'll give it another shot tomorrow with that next round.

[King James]

Landscaping should really start popping this week with the breaks of sun

[Brian D]

+DR(-RN) under overcast skies with a lake breeze and a 37 temp. ISH! But it is April (mud month). Most of the snow is gone except for some piles, and large drifts here in town. Montreal River over on the WI/UP MI border flooding right now, too, closing roads/bridges.

 

[A-L-E-K]

Trying to resist the urge to turn on the ac

[IWXwx]

2 hours ago, A-L-E-K said:

Trying to resist the urge to turn on the ac

Turned ours on about 4 hours ago. After the clouds from the morning rain cleared, we shot up to 83 (predicted 77). We've hit the low 80's a couple of times, but without the dews.

[Chinook]

[A-L-E-K]

quality ~3 inch soaker, remember the drought?

[hawkeye_wx]

The environment is now quite wet.  I got another 0.83" overnight, boosting my April total to nearly 5 inches.

[cyclone77]

Managed to scrounge up 0.54" from the early morning elevated leftovers.  Brings April up to 4.78".

Today/this evening has been looking like our best shot for heavy rains all along, and still looks that way.  

[Brian D]

Eeked out about 0.10" of rain yesterday from the heavy drizzle, and shwrs/stms that developed over the area. Was nice to have stms for a change. Geese have been trickling back into the area as well as flocks of tweety birds. No robin sightings yet, but that'll come soon. 

[Brian D]

Early data in for March. Another warm one. 5 & 10 yr trend charts shown respectively.

[Chicago Storm]

ORD had a low temp of 62° on April 13th, which tied the record high min temp for the date of 62° (1941).

ORD received 2.43" of precip on April 14th, which broke the record precip total for the date of 1.21" (1949).

[hawkeye_wx]

Another 0.45" this morning boosted my April total to 5.39".  This is the most rain I've received in the first half of April in the last twenty years.  Only four years in that period have full-month April totals higher than this year's first half.

[KeenerWx]

Should get a round two of boomers late tonight. Not counting on anything svr, but perhaps some enjoyable night time acoustics. House windows have been opened the past couple of days and it’s been wonderful. 

[cyclone77]

Not surprised that there's a tornado warning north of Dixon.  Those showers moved over here an hour or so ago and even when they were weak you could see everything had nice blocky bases.  LCLs are pretty low in northern IL as well.

[Jackstraw]

12 hours ago, A-L-E-K said:

quality ~3 inch soaker, remember the drought?

Just got home last Saturday. We've had 0 precip out of all the systems that have rolled through here. The models have been forecasting 2-3 since last week. We're still pretty dry locally and below normal. To quote good 'ol Yukon....

[A-L-E-K]

Ready for more garden variety sleepers

[OrdIowPitMsp]

Seems like most of the sub has seen as much or more precipitation in April then I have all year. (5.20” since January 1)

[cyclone77]

Another 0.66" this evening brings the total for today to 1.32", and 5.56" for April.  

Have had 5.97" since the last day of March.

EDIT:  Another 0.34" overnight brings April to 5.90".

[Brian D]

12 hours ago, OrdIowPitMsp said:

Seems like most of the sub has seen as much or more precipitation in April then I have all year. (5.20” since January 1)

Looking at the TH co-op, they've only measured 2.69" YTD, but the CoCoRahs site at Flood Bay NE of town has 6.43". Other sites in the area around here are about the same or more. Issues there at the co-op. 

[hawkeye_wx]

Only 0.17" here from the broken line of storms last evening.  My April total is 5.56".

[weatherbo]

This is by far the nicest day since last Autumn. Zero wind and 64.  The sun feels so good. lol
The melt had been slow with cool temps and fog for the past week but has accelerated the past two days.  Going to check out some waterfalls this weekend but will likely do it with some snow showers around.

Measuring 32" off the driveway this afternoon... and going quick.

[A-L-E-K]

great lakes water levels have been in decline for a while now, nice to see the great state of michigan getting wet and hope we can start filling the tubs again

[Brian D]

60's - 70's away from lake. 30's-40's along the shore. Cold lake breeze. Top 5 warmth inland today.