Whew! This was hottest first week in April on record
After the snowiest December, the snowiest February and the snowiest winter on record for Baltimore, we've managed to topple yet another weather record this week - a hot one this time.
Steve Zubrick, the science officer out at the National Weather Service forecast office in Sterling, 
Va., says the first seven days of the month were the hottest first week in April on the record books for Baltimore, which go back to 1871.
The average temperature at BWI-Marshall from April 1 to 7, 2010 was 64.6 degrees, slipping by the old record of 64.5 degrees set 81 years ago, in 1929. Okay, so it's an unofficial record, but still ... That's nearly 15 degrees above the 30-year average for BWI, 49.6 degrees.
It was also the warmest start to an April in Washington, D.C., and out at Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia, Zubrick said. "Impressive!"
And now there's a frost advisory out tonight for counties in northwestern Virginia.
Comments
Isn't that 15 degrees, not 25? for the average....
FR: Right you are. Fixed. It's the pollen fog I've been in all day.
Posted by: Jim | April 9, 2010 7:43 PM
This is a good natural balance to those weeks of snow we had. Nature does that. It balances. And it does need humans, especially Al Gore, for any assistance.
Posted by: HarlanR | April 9, 2010 8:08 PM
@Harlan
Remember, climate change is all about wild swings from extreme to extreme. I'm not necessarily saying the past six months is a demonstration of the validity of climate-change hypotheses; however, they certainly doesn't refute them, nor Vice President Gore's prescient words.
Posted by: BankStreet | April 10, 2010 8:23 AM
Funny - where are all the anti-AGW nuts? If we get snow in winter (and it was even cold!), they come out like cockroachs but when the first week of April is in the 90's, they hide away from the light of facts. Shouldn't they be out screaming that AGW is now real and Al Gore is right? (Of course, a short, one week span proves nonthing but that is the way science really woks - facts)
Wait, facts that don't follow their stupidity are ignored and only nonsense is their true belief. So typical.
FR: Can we please try to argue our points with logic and facts, rather than name-calling? Thanks. The management.
Posted by: DBrown | April 10, 2010 8:49 AM
Still have a snow pile holding strong. I take a pic every Friday and post on my FB.
FR: So send me the pix!
Posted by: gueman | April 10, 2010 9:00 AM
Other then the pollen count being alittle above normal for this time of year the weather seems to have gotten back to average temps. How about a non-weather related Question. Frank, is it possible to see a orbiting satellite with the naked eye? Saw what i thought was one at 8:53pm tonight traveling south to north about 65 degrees here in westminster about at the speed you`d see the ISS moving. Just curiuos.
FR: It certainly is. There are amateur satellite watch organizations whose members watch and track many satellites, including supposedly secret spy satellites. An astronomy program such as Starry Nights can help you ID these things. According to my Starry Nights, the best candidate for the satellite you describe would seem to be the Russian Tatiana 2 satellite, said to be an education and technology demonstration satellite launched last September.
Posted by: Bryan | April 10, 2010 9:08 PM
for Bryan: the few satellites I've seen have been right about dusk when the sun is low toward the horizon. It's very cool when the bright spark in the sky crosses the shadow line and disappears.
Posted by: JohnR | April 13, 2010 9:24 AM