April Weather Summary

April began by bringing some cold, rainy days...even two days with a trace of recorded snowfall! The temperatures weren't impressive -- below average at best -- and only surfacing above the average mark for only a brief moment or two. There was talk and fears of a damaging freeze reminiscent of the 2007 freeze event, but thankfully that threat subsided and only minor damage (if any) was reported.

Then how quickly the weather changed as warmer, more moist air began to dominate the area, and the entire midwest. In no time at all, we were up into the 80s, and this station we hit 90 for a brief moment. Overall, we ended up with slightly above average temperatures for the month.


Temperatures

High: 90°

Low: 29°

Mean High/Average: 67.5° / 65.9°

Mean Low/Average: 43.5° / 42.9°

Precipitation

It took some time to get the water works going, but a below-average April sky opened up late in the game and dumped some nice totals during the last week of the month. 62% of this fell in the last five days!

Thanks to OSNW3, I now have access to some midwest climate data! The average precipitation is data from the NWS coop station # 233079 in Fulton.

Average April Precip: 3.96"

We didn't have any severe events in April impact the area. In fact, in Missouri there were only 70 severe weather reports. I updated my previous post on April Storm Data to reflect this data.

April 2009 Days with Thunder: 3