April 2016 Observations and Discussion

[NEJeremy]

Had another 1.96" of rain with yesterday's severe weather. We've now had about 5" of rain in the last 10 or so days. Another 1-2" is forecast tomorrow night and Saturday.

[Hawkeye]

A few days ago Friday looked like a decent break with low 60s, but we were again stuck in the upper 40s all day.  Two more nasty days to go.

[CentralNebWeather]

Right now, Moderate rain, 40 degrees with a northeast wind gusting to 42 mph putting our wind chill in the upper 20's. Raw and miserable are good descriptions of our weather. Snow west of me. Who knows, might see some flakes overnight.

[Tom]

All streaks must come to an end.  It was a very cold/snowy open to April with bouts of warmth but blocking helped keep the chill for most of the month.

 

[Geos]

I really hope the latest CFSv2 run is off its rocker...it's weeklies keep extending the cooling trend out farther each day it seems as we head into May!

 

 

The 27th outlook for May started a warming trend, but today it backed off. Now near normal for May showing up. 

 

I know for sure this first week of May will be mostly below normal around here and on east. 

 

43-44° currently with -RN. 

Running a couple weeks behind schedule with the green up. Should have leaves showing up on Maple trees now, but only softwoods so far.

[Geos]

Moved your May post, WestMJim.

 

Wrap up for April.

 

[NEJeremy]

Received another 1.51" of rain on Saturday/night. Ended up with about 6.4" of rain for the month at my house with all of that falling from the 18th to the end of the month. We had no measurable rain the first 17 days of April! Temps were 3 degrees above normal too.

[CentralNebWeather]

 

 

 

 

We set an all time record for rainfall in April going back 122 years.  Several people had more than 12 inches and I had 11.75 inches for the month.  My location in the second picture is in the pink colors which has 10-15 inches.

[Geos]

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We set an all time record for rainfall in April going back 122 years.  Several people had more than 12 inches and I had 11.75 inches for the month.  My location in the second picture is in the pink colors which has 10-15 inches.

 

Seen some months around here were nearly 10" of rain has fallen. That's even more extreme for your region.

 

What are the rivers like? Flooded I bet

[gabel23]

I received another 1.9" of rain from this last storm, bringing my April total to 6.6". I must say that graphic above is pretty darn close!! 

[CentralNebWeather]

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We set an all time record for rainfall in April going back 122 years.  Several people had more than 12 inches and I had 11.75 inches for the month.  My location in the second picture is in the pink colors which has 10-15 inches.

Platte River is the closest river to me 17 miles away, running pretty full.  The Republican River coming out of Colorado is also running high.  Reservoirs might be about full.