April 2022 Observations & Discussions

[CentralNebWeather]

17 minutes ago, IMoveALot_Weather said:

I'm in Lincoln right now and WOW is this warmth a shock. 80°F and climbing.

87 with a dew of 62 here at 1 PM.  Not ready for this at all.

[snowstorm83]

20 minutes ago, IMoveALot_Weather said:

I'm in Lincoln right now and WOW is this warmth a shock. 80°F and climbing.

Also kinda muggy lol 

[Hawkeye]

While I was out to eat a small, but heavy cell tracked right through the middle of Cedar Rapids.  It had some lightning/thunder with it.  I finished with a very respectable 1.77".

[bud2380]

My wife told me it is hailing in Tiffin, along with raining cats and dogs.  

[Iceresistance]

1 hour ago, snowstorm83 said:

Also kinda muggy lol 

Dew points in the 60s at my house, it's really muggy down here!

[CentralNebWeather]

 

[Clinton]

Currently 84 with 51% humidity but no chance of rain until tomorrow. 

[snowstorm83]

35 minutes ago, CentralNebWeather said:

 

That area has just not been having a good time the past few weeks 

[Andie]

Warm 85* 

Winds out of the South 26 mph. Howling through the fireplace. 
Should bring us good rain on Sunday.  

[Clinton]

First backyard fire of the year.

 

[CentralNebWeather]

Had to turn on the AC about 5 pm. My wife was complaining how hot it was. Earliest I’ve ever turned it on. Usually don’t even think about it until mid May. What an odd winter/spring. 

[Iceresistance]

Just now, CentralNebWeather said:

Had to turn on the AC about 5 pm. My wife was complaining how hot it was. Earliest I’ve ever turned it on. Usually don’t even think about it until mid May. What an odd winter/spring. 

I've been trying to convince my family to turn it on because it gets really bad inside (Temperatures over 80°F inside with higher humidity is miserable.) but we can't since we're going to Florida in the next couple of weeks.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Windy in Omaha too.

[Minny_Weather]

13 hours ago, CentralNebWeather said:

 

Looks like that area actually got the best rainfall overnight. Around 0.5".

[Tom]

Is anyone else having trouble with Tropical Tidbits?  It says I'm offline but that's obviously not the case.

[CentralNebWeather]

16 minutes ago, Tom said:

Is anyone else having trouble with Tropical Tidbits?  It says I'm offline but that's obviously not the case.

Same problem for me. 

[Tom]

As blocking flex's its muscles up across the Arctic, our storm parade continues into the Merry Month of May but is there a twist???  Before then, however, an interesting CO Low is being forecast to develop on the closing days of this month.  I'm sure we'll see yet one more winter side to this system given the pattern and recent trends.  Boy, this sure has been one  hellova wintry April across the country.

 

0z EPS...

 

 

There is no sugar coating it but the last weekend of the month is not looking pretty for many on here...wet/cool for a lot of you out east....

[CentralNebWeather]

7 minutes ago, Tom said:

As blocking flex's its muscles up across the Arctic, our storm parade continues into the Merry Month of May but is there a twist???  Before then, however, an interesting CO Low is being forecast to develop on the closing days of this month.  I'm sure we'll see yet one more winter side to this system given the pattern and recent trends.  Boy, this sure has been one  hellova wintry April across the country.

 

0z EPS...

 

 

There is no sugar coating it but the last weekend of the month is not looking pretty for many on here...wet/cool for a lot of you out east....

GFS shows this as a potential storm in the Central Plains next Friday. 

[westMJim]

Yesterdays official high at Grand Rapids was 48 and there was a reported total of 1.22" of rain fall. Here in MBY I recorded 1.02" of rain fall. The reported overnight low at Grand Rapids so far is 47 and that is also the lowest I recorded here at my house. For the month of April the mean at Grand Rapids is now at 41.3 that is a departure of -4.6 and so far there has been 3.99" of rain fall that is a departure of +1.09". At Muskegon their mean is 41.6 good for a departure of -3.6 and they are also wetter than average. After a brief two day warm  up it will be back to well below average temperatures to end the month of April. 

[Timmy Supercell]

I've had a few 80+ already, but today is my first upper 80's (86-90) in Ashland Kentucky. 

Low briefly bottomed out at 48 but quickly shot up to the 70's by 10am.

[Timmy Supercell]

Still sitting at 4 thunders so far in 2022, I imagine this number will start climbing in just a bit. 

[Phil]

12 minutes ago, Timmy Supercell said:

I've had a few 80+ already, but today is my first upper 80's (86-90) in Ashland Kentucky. 

Low briefly bottomed out at 48 but quickly shot up to the 70's by 10am.

At least there’s no humidity at this time of year.

You’ll be longing for these cool nights and dry days soon enough.  

[OmahaSnowFan]

17 hours ago, CentralNebWeather said:

Had to turn on the AC about 5 pm. My wife was complaining how hot it was. Earliest I’ve ever turned it on. Usually don’t even think about it until mid May. What an odd winter/spring. 

we let our house get to 79 last evening, but when it came time to go to bed, we turned on the AC. It's hard to sleep in a stuffy house even with the wind blowing through.

[james1976]

Currently 72 with 65% humidity. Actually feels more like summer. Had a quick boomer early this morning but only dropped 0.05". 

I picked up a nice 1.70" from the Thursday night-Friday event.

[jaster220]

Beating our previous high for April by 5F

Top shelf day here! 

[Tom]

1 hour ago, jaster220 said:

Beating our previous high for April by 5F

Top shelf day here! 

Enjoy it!  You guys finally deserve a nice weekend with back to back primo days...

[Anti Marine Layer]

3 hours ago, jaster220 said:

Beating our previous high for April by 5F

Top shelf day here! 

Have fun. Looks like the cold front arrives by tomorrow evening. 

[Phil]

Highs near 80 here today. Low humidity so not oppressive but can tell that I have a lot of acclimating to do before swamp season starts.

[OmahaSnowFan]

Helloooo Friday on the 18Z GFS!! Classic warm front dry line setup

[Phil]

How’s that great plains wind treating ya @hawkstwelve?  

https://www.weather.gov/wrh/timeseries?site=KFSD&hours=168&units=english&chart=on&headers=on&obs=tabular&hourly=false&pview=standard

[Tom]

The wild swings of the Great Plains will be in full effect this coming week as Summer returns in earnest.  Meanwhile, those near the GL's and parts of the MW are stuck in a blocking pattern as cold HP that originated way up in the Arctic regions of Canada (NW Territories/Yellowknife) makes its way down into the Lower 48.  If you look closely, there is a piece of the Polar Vortex just to the E of the HP that sits and spins for days just north of Hudson Bay near Baffin Bay.

 

I'm beginning to wonder if this pattern is trying to set up for the duration of this coming summer.  The month of May will be interesting to see where the blocks set up and where the PV lobe wanders.  I gotta funny feeling that parts of N/NE Canada may be experiencing an unusually cold summer.  Just a wild guess based on trends and the result of all the high lat blocking.

In any event, wrt the blocking and the anticipated wave train, nature will turn on the faucets once again for the central CONUS.  Gosh, it's going to be pretty darn wet across the ag belt region.  Both GEFS/EPS are pretty much on the same page but the GEFS point towards a bit more moisture for NE.  Put money on the GEFS???  Up to this point in the season, I haven't been more confident that our peeps in NE could finally break the seal.

 

[westMJim]

Yesterdays official H/L at Grand Rapids was 82/46. That high of 82 was the 3rd warmest April 23rd at Grand Rapids. At Muskegon they tied a record for the day with a high of 80 that ties 1985. At Lansing their high was 83 and that is their 2nd warmest April 23. So all in all just as advertised huge one day warm up. The official overnight low at Grand Rapids looks to have been 66. Here at my house my overnight low was 64. At the current time I have 67 and cloudy skies. There is a thin line of showers moving in at this time. After today there looks to be a long period of cool temperatures and several nights of below freezing temperatures. It was a short summer.

[jaster220]

3 hours ago, westMJim said:

 

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It was a short summer.

    

[jaster220]

77F was our high for DTW yesterday. Didn't "feel" an 80F happening after the clouds lingered from the overnight flooding rains and my hunch was correct. Full on shorts and golf shirt day and exiting the local Target with my cart of "stuff" felt zero chill in the SW breeze. THAT was a long time coming! 

Worms got flooded out in classic fashion and were everywhere in the morning. You had to work not to have mushed worm on your shoe soles. Not sure if that's a phenomenon elsewhere, or unique to SMI but the robins were in surely feast mode. Their patience enduring the late snows finally rewarded. 

[CentralNebWeather]

Jim Flowers talking about a cool May, June, July with average precipitation or possibly above in this region of the Central Plains. Facebook  Video talking about La Nina and how it is intensifying. Can’t get it to post for some reason. 

[CentralNebWeather]

https://fb.watch/cBd2Xuh7Mv/
Ok, here is the Jim Flowers video 

[Clinton]

Near average temps and wet to close out the month.

[Phil]

Low 80s here this afternoon, but around 90°F down in central VA where there’s less onshore flow.

Some convection firing in the higher elevations. Will have to see if it can drift off the terrain east of the BR.

[snowstorm83]

Wind advisories and red flag warnings have quickly become my least favorite headlines 

[jaster220]

Craziest WF I've ever seen. What The Front??