We're back. Any interesting weather?
We're back, having reluctantly left a place with water all around it, sunshine, and temperatures stuck between 75 and 85 degrees every day, only to return to wet, cold and gray Baltimore. And I thought April was Maryland's pleasantest month...
But I digress. First order of business this morning is to correct an obvious error on the print editions' Weather Page. Somehow, our weather data vendor - Weather Central - came up with bogus data for the record highs and lows for April 16 at BWI.
The paper says the record high was 91 degrees, set in 2002. The stated record low for an April 16 was 2 degrees, set in 2003.
As one alert reader has already pointed out, we have never come close to 2 degrees in April. The record April low for Baltimore is 15 degrees, set on April 1, 1923. The actual records for Monday's date are 90 degrees (set in 2002) and 30 degrees (set in 1962). We have asked Weather Central for an explanation. We are not happy.
In the meantime, we are working this week with new blog software. It will take me a bit of time to get comfortable with it, so bear with me if things are a little rocky at first. Still trying to figure out how to insert images and paragraphs. Sigh.
So what the devil happened to our weather while I was away? Snow? Cold? Four inches of rain? Must everything fall apart when I leave the control room? Well, I'm back, and by the weekend we should have things looking brighter, with more sunshine and temperatures back to around 70 degrees or better for the opening weekend at Pimlico. Here's the official forecast.
Comments
Happy to see you back. Missed your blog last week. And yes, everything DID fall apart while you were away! We can't remember a colder April. My husband maintains that it was setting forward the clocks so early that had us all convinced that Spring had officially started....When it's still light at 6:30, we're used to it being WARM!
Welcome back. Maybe now we'll get some warm weather.
Posted by: M Ward | April 17, 2007 5:36 PM
So far, this IS the coldest April on record. Since record-keeping began in Baltimore in 1871, only five other Aprils have averaged colder than 50 degrees. This one is averaging 45 degrees, easily the coldest. Of course, the month is barely half over, and is bound to get warmer.
Posted by: frank roylance | April 17, 2007 6:33 PM