April ended a little cooler and little drier than normal.
Clinton Area Weather Observer Jim Blaess reports the average temperature was 50 degrees. He says that’s 1.9 degrees below the average.
The highest temperature was a 78-degree reading. The lowest was 23-degrees.
Precipitation in April was 2.8 inches and Blaess says that is below the normal lof 3.05 inches. There was 3.8 inches of snow in the month. The normal is .5 inches of snow.
The weather observer says precipitation in the first four months was 7.74 inches and that’s below the normal of 8.37 inches.
For the snow season of October thru April Blaess says was 32 inches of snow. The normal over that period is 31 inches of snow.
Blaess said during the 2018-2019 snow season there was 46.1 inches of snow.
For May, Blaess says the average high in the first is 69 and the low is 46. Those rise to averages of 78 and 56 by the end of the month. Blaess says the average precipitation is 3.94 inches. He pointed out that last year there was 9.66 inches of precipitation in May. The most rainfall in May was in 1996 with 12.35 inches.
