How did you like those few days of weather around 80 degrees last week? Tuesday it was 81 degrees and no record, Wednesday was 84 degrees which beat the old record of 82 degrees set in 2001. Thursday was 85 degrees, one degree short of the record. Not bad.
But then reality set in on Friday with nearly a 20 degree drop in temperatures. We struggled to reach 57 degrees, way short of the average. But remember, normals are a collection of extremes averaged out over a long period of time.
Those three days of 80 degree weather brought up our average mean temperature to 52.5 degrees, nearly one degree above normal. We were running below average until then for the month. Showers were light for the most part at the official rain gauge at Pearson Saturday. But hey, some of those showers Saturday were frog stranglers. Did you see any of those heavy showers? The raindrops were the size of pancakes; OK, dollar-size pancakes.
Speaking of downpours, did you see the recent news report of the heavy rain in Hawaii? Preliminary data shows that in the 24-hour period from April 14 to 15, 49.69 inches of rain fell in a rain gauge in Waipa on the island of Kauai. When reports are certified in the record books by the National Climate Service, it would break the current record of 43 inches recorded July 25-26, 1979 in Alvin, Texas.
