Last month ended a little below normal for temperatures, but was above normal for precipitation.
April was the first time since last August that the overall temperature was below normal.
Clinton area weather observer Jim Blaess says that overall temperature was a couple of tenths of a degree below normal (51.9 degrees) at 51.7 degrees.
He says the warmest day was the 17th with a high of 83 and the lowest temperature was 24 on the 9th.
Blaess says the precipitation in April was 3.58 inches. He said that’s about a half an inch above normal (3.05 inches) for the month.
The Clinton area weather observer says that over the first four months of the year the precipitation is about average. He says there’s been 8.33 inches compared to the normal of 8.37 inches.
There was a trace of snow recorded in April. Blaess says April ends the snow season and the October through April snowfall was just over 17 inches total (17.3 inches). He says that is the 16th least snowfall over the period back to the start of the records in the 1887-1888 snow season. The normal snowfall during the period is 31 inches. The least snowiest is the 1921-1922 season with about eight (8.2) inches of snow.
For May, Blaess says the average precipitation is just over four inches. While the average is no 90 degree days for the month, Blaess says it’s not unusual to have some 90 degree temperatures.
Overall, Blaess says the average high on May 1st if 69 and the average low is 46 and those rise to averages of 78 and 56 by the end of the month.
