First day of May, and not joking this is our first fog in like 2+ months. It's been strangely absent this year.
57 right now after a low of 54. Fog is not as thick now as it was an hour ago.
I was thinking you might have reverse SAD but then remembered you also get down when its gloomy for long periods in November and December.
It seems like this April would have been to your liking... drier than normal, colder than normal, and with a decent amount of sunshine.
You will see how it plays out when it warms up next week while still being significantly drier than normal. I am sure those trees will fill out quickly regardless of rainfall. Side note... our yard is completely sun exposed with no shade.
Spring of 2022 was also telling. The trees here started leafing out in early April and then just slowed to a crawl all the way through May and never did totally finish. I have never seen anything like it. I think our big leaf maples ended up around 75% of normal leaf size that summer and they never looked right. Lack of rain certainly was not the issue in April and May 2022. It was very wet. The problem was the unusual cold without the typical warm periods that happen in those months even when its colder than normal overall.
Welcome to May. The official H/L yesterday was 63/47 there was no rainfall and the sun was out 76% of the time. The leaves are now mostly out on the trees so we are a good two weeks ahead of schedule. For today the average H/L is 64/43 the record high of 88 was set in 1942 and the record low of 21 was set in 1903. The record rainfall of 2.02” was in 2003. Last year the H/L was 45/36 there was 0.22” of rain and a trace of snowfall.
April 2024 had a mean of 50.7 that is a departure of +3.1. The high for the month was 80 on the 27th and the low for the month was 28 on the 25th there was 2.67” of rainfall that is a departure of -1.32” there was just a trace of snowfall and that is a departure of -30.1”
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