April 2016 Summary

[muslim12]

Originally Posted by srfoskey

After a cool start, April wound up being slightly warmer than average here. The freezes early in the month caused minor plant damage, and there was a dry spell mid-month. But nothing too exciting or unusual happened.

The fact it dropped below 30 is unusual, it hasn't dropped below 30 in April since 2007, 9 years ago! And the fact it did it twice!

[RWood]

Originally Posted by ChesterNZ

Yes, that matches my subjective impression of this month. I was actually really surprised looking at the official figures (which indicated barely above average sunshine) -- to me the past month has seemed far sunnier than usual with significantly warmer afternoons. Although I'm mindful of how misleading one's own perceptions can be I wouldn't be at all surprised if the actual sunshine were much higher than the official figures.

Right. 3 EWSs around the extended area have totals around the 200 mark. Even if a little overstated, that's well above average. For Ch'ch aero temp. readings, provisional figures indicate +1.6C for Tmax and -0.8C for Tmin - so the diurnal range was up because of clearer skies. Re sunshine readings, manual sites like Ch'ch Aero, Napier and a few others are not being well attended to as they are being phased out.

[tarzan_taborda]

2016 in my hometown and in the rainiest major town/city of the country.

I also included May (1 to 10th)


It has been a very wet start of the year in the northern half of the country, I reached my annual average yesterday.

More than 2000mm since October in the northwest mountains, while some areas of the south still below 400mm

[alphatier]

Amazing. That is a lot of rain. A lot more than we get in a year. Do you have sunshine stats available for these two locations?

[Jakobsli]

So wet in northern Portugal! Is all that rain a good thing? Was it needed?

[tarzan_taborda]

Originally Posted by Jakobsli

So wet in northern Portugal! Is all that rain a good thing?

Yes, just some minor floods, . It falls 20/50mm a day during a whole week, then sunny another week, these precipitation values occur once every 5/10 years or so.

2000/2001 winter was a lot worse, record breaking even

Porto received 1724mm in just 5 months (white columns)



And Braga 2430/2580mm for the same 5 month period, depending on the station

[Arktikos]

Bethel, AK was 14.6 F above normal for April. That's quite a deviation.

Not surprisingly, the entire state was above average, for the seventh consecutive month.

http://akclimate.org/Summary/Statewide/2016/Apr