Beautiful Spring Days Make for a Lack of Weather News
It’s been about ten days since I last posted. I guess you can blame the lack of posting on a combination of chamber of commerce weather in the Atlanta area, my trying to get the garden in shape and a busy April that is taking me out of town three times this month.
There really hasn’t been much to complain about the weather since the cold threat back on April 14-15. Even that turned out to be a bust, with temperatures hovering just above freezing. We seem to have settled into a pattern of beautiful weekday weather, with a cold front coming in on the weekend to bring rain. It looks like that pattern might continue for another week or two. Rain is expected both this weekend and next. It’s bad news for the weekend gardener trying to plant annuals in wet soil.
Of course, wet soils are the least of the problems for much of the Midwest and Northeast, which have been inundated with precipitation, leading to flooding. Missouri had its second wettest March ever. Cape Girardeau, Missouri had 13.84 inches of rain in 48 hours last month–about what the Atlanta area has seen all year. Pennsylvania and New York had their third wettest March since recordkeeping began. Georgia ended up having its 36th driest month, however it appears that for a change, the northern half of the state had closer to normal rainfall than the southern half.
What can Atlantans expect for the weather through May? In addition to the pattern of rain on weekends, you can look for the end of April to be cooler than normal followed by a warmup in early May. Relatively normal precipitation is likely to give way to a dry spell as the new month begins. As far as May as a whole, the CPC is predicting equal chance of above or below normal temperature and precipitation.
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