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[shark253]

Yes, it is April for sure, but anything is possible. High temps next week in the low to mid 40's and lows in the 30's. Now, if a low pressure area can take that perfect track, then we can have a nice wet snowstorm around here. Cold air will be marginal, but lets hope for the best. It will be unsettled here early next week, so something to keep an eye on. ( April 7th, 1982....THE BLIZZARD THAT HAMMERED THE NYC AREA). Anyone remember that? So, like I said...all eyes open early next week.

[robbbs]

shark253, on Apr 3 2009, 07:47 PM, said:

Yes, it is April for sure, but anything is possible. High temps next week in the low to mid 40's and lows in the 30's. Now, if a low pressure area can take that perfect track, then we can have a nice wet snowstorm around here. Cold air will be marginal, but lets hope for the best. It will be unsettled here early next week, so something to keep an eye on. ( April 7th, 1982....THE BLIZZARD THAT HAMMERED THE NYC AREA). Anyone remember that? So, like I said...all eyes open early next week.

At this point, I would actually prefer warm weather.

[Mike_The_Golfer]

robbbs, on Apr 3 2009, 03:57 PM, said:

At this point, I would actually prefer warm weather.

I think that goes for most of us.

[LongIslandWthr]

robbbs, on Apr 3 2009, 03:57 PM, said:

At this point, I would actually prefer warm weather.

Agreed. I am in Severe Wx mode

[icehater]

shark253, on Apr 3 2009, 03:47 PM, said:

Yes, it is April for sure, but anything is possible. High temps next week in the low to mid 40's and lows in the 30's. Now, if a low pressure area can take that perfect track, then we can have a nice wet snowstorm around here. Cold air will be marginal, but lets hope for the best. It will be unsettled here early next week, so something to keep an eye on. ( April 7th, 1982....THE BLIZZARD THAT HAMMERED THE NYC AREA). Anyone remember that? So, like I said...all eyes open early next week.

If you are still looking for snow, some instability rain and snow showers mixed look about the best you'll do and who even wants that at this point. There is no threat like April 1982 (so you can stop your watch and relax your eyes) and that was a fluke storm with a set-up that was not seen before or since. It's April, snow desires are long gone.

[GameOfLove]

I think for some people they would take snow in May-June-July on here.

Nobody wants snow in April. It's time for warm weather...

[bm55]

GameOfLove, on Apr 4 2009, 01:09 AM, said:

I think for some people they would take snow in May-June-July on here.

Nobody wants snow in April. It's time for warm weather...

WSW for the 4th of july!

[icehater]

There's also some bad info in this thread. Highs in the 40-45 range is for one day not the week. After that colder day which would bring instability showers, not a storm, temps rebound to 50 and every other day in the week is in the 50's with 60 in reach by late week. In fact at this time of year unless it's cloudy/unstable or there's an east wind, expect the forecast constantly to be lower than the actual high temps. Same goes for May. Models just underestimate surface warmth in april and may in our area.

[OrangeCountyWeather06]

I hope we get warmer weather soon. I am going on Spring Break soon and I will be going to parties and stuff but nicer weather could help.

[Snowamp5]

Today was miserable, so windy and cold, scattered flurries, tried to do some spring yard work, but it was useless...everything kept blowing araound...bring on REAL spring...I am leaving for Turks and caicos on wednesday and would like a smooth flight.

[icehater]

Snowamp5, on Apr 4 2009, 07:56 PM, said:

Today was miserable, so windy and cold, scattered flurries, tried to do some spring yard work, but it was useless...everything kept blowing araound...bring on REAL spring...I am leaving for Turks and caicos on wednesday and would like a smooth flight.

This is an awful pattern. If it was winter it would be very very frustrating. Plains snowstorm patterns are a ski owners nightmare here and yield flurries at best. Even in northern Maine it's lousy as they get WAA snow that goes to heavy rain with each system. Here, as we get our cold windy day while they get a new snowstorm at the same time and the cold is mainly high elevation cold (IE today reached 61 here). In January a pattern like this would yield rain and even t-storms followed by a raw and cold to very cold day with 40-50mph winds, followed by a much warmer low wind day that led quickly to a new round of rain and T-storms from the fresh snowstorm the Plains got when we had our brief cold. Then the pattern repeats itself. You have no chance of a snowsorm here whatsoever in a pattern like this whether it's January or now. Meanwhile the pattern is fast moving. So the cold is brief, the warm-up is rapid and brief and then you get a new system with warm frontal rain and then a cold front squall line. We had a pattern like this for the better part of 6 weeks in the heart of winter once. The 3-4 day forecast could have been written just once and used over and over again as the timing of rain to wind and cold to mild and dry and then to mild and wet was repetitive literally right to the hour with each new Plains snowstorm.

[snowfreak188]

every year is the same weekdays are nice and weekends are trashy.

[snowshoe]

Welcome to APril. Sometimes this is the worst month because we want the warm weather and we get it but it does not last. We had some flurries late yesterday and last night. Winds were nasty last night as well.

[Lindsay Storm]

I was in the upper deck at Citifield yesterday. Was so cold and windy...left in the fourth inning.
That, and Perez sucked. First inning took an hour.

[icehater]

It was very windy here, but we had a lot of sun and it took the chill out of the air. Seems like NYC had much colder temps then central NJ yesterday. It's nice down here as winter climate is more like NYC but once April rolls around we are more like Philly. This thread was hopeful for a freak late snowstorm but in reality you couldn't get a snowstorm out of a pattern like this in the heart of winter.

[GameOfLove]

The sunshine vs the cloudy skies was stuck around Central NJ to just south of Staten Island all day long.

[icehater]

67.5 and wonderful here right now.

[Stormchaser]

icehater, on Apr 5 2009, 03:31 PM, said:

67.5 and wonderful here right now.

64.0 here and probably the best looking/feeling day for at least 10 days.

[Stormchaser]

icehater, on Apr 5 2009, 11:57 AM, said:

It was very windy here, but we had a lot of sun and it took the chill out of the air. Seems like NYC had much colder temps then central NJ yesterday. It's nice down here as winter climate is more like NYC but once April rolls around we are more like Philly. This thread was hopeful for a freak late snowstorm but in reality you couldn't get a snowstorm out of a pattern like this in the heart of winter.

There was a gradient yesterday as the OVC extended to Monmouth-Mercer counties, and it was much warmer south of that cloud line. South Jersey had 65+ highs yesterday.

Here the high of 58.0 occured at midnight, most of Saturday was 50-53 and cloudy / 40 mph winds.

[FreezingDrizzle]

A pretty good rain for us; with some wet snow in the Pocono's Monday night and Tuesday?