Tim's Weather World - Weather Center Blog - Chicago Weather Center
Not only are we seeing the warmest start to the year on record in Chicago, so is New York City, Boston, Tampa, Nashville and Philadelphia. Here are some of the climate highlights for April from the National Climatic Data Center :. Eight states -- Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia -- had average April temperatures cooler than their... However, these temperatures were still above the long-term average for the month According to the Rutgers Global Snow Lab , the April snow cover extent across the contiguous United States was the third smallest on record, despite the late season... Warmer-than-average temperatures were present for a large portion of the nation during April with nine states in the Central and Northeast regions having April temperatures ranking among their ten warmest. Only one day did not feature temperatures above average and that day turned out to be right at average. Nationwide, April was the third warmest on record following the warmest March on record. We have averaged 7 per day above average so far.
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The recent massive blizzard that laid a huge swath of snow across most of the midwest, was followed with arctic temperatures that brought places like Chicago to its knees. With the wind chill,