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Summerlike conditions along Lake Champlain, Vt (Photo courtesy of the Burlington Free Press)
Burlington, Vermont is currently at 81 degrees, which is warmer than Miami which only stands at 79 degrees….
Major cooldown here 80s ruled yesterday across the Midwest.. exp note Chicago’s current 58, yesterday it was 81 degrees there.
Graphics courtesy of The Weather ChannelIt was WARMER in Burlington, Vermont than Tallahasse, Florida yesterday and with Montreal’s record-smashing high of 77 degrees, which is a reading more likely to be found on the Gulf Coast this time of year than in Quebec, was WAY WAY above the “average of 45 degrees”
The heat being pumped from the southern Plains into the Midwest, Ohio Valley and Northeast is also reaching incredibly into northern New England and southern Quebec, Canada.
5pm UPDATE: New record highs today: 25C Montreal, 28C Ottawa and Prescott/Ogdensburg. Lake Ontario is keeping Kingston cool at 17C while just up the 401 Brockville is 27C.Meanwhile the cool Atlantic is keeping Boston at 11C (52F) while most other locations in New England are in the 75-80F range with the exception of the immediate Lake Champlain shore line and as mentioned the immediate New England coast.It appears we will skip a season, at least for the next two days. Strong high pressure will dominate the weather along the Atlantic coast and New England into southern Quebec and Ontario. The warm sunshine and strong southerly flow will push the mercury to summer readings of about 20 degrees above normal to record highs of 25C in Montreal and 23 to 27C in most regions away from the rivers or lakes. The cooler bodies of water will keep temperatures down in places like Kingston. The record high in Montreal for today was 16C set in 2009 and for tomorrow’s date it is 21C set in 1981. If all goes as planned we should shatter those records. Temperatures are responding slowly this morning as areas of fog burn off. But they are coming up nicely to our west and south with readings already near the 17C mark along the US/Ontario borders.
From the Montreal Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/Here+chilling+record+heat/2759219/story.html
I thought you should take a look at this from the Valley Weather Blog which is one of many great weather blogs out there….
From the Valley Weather blog
Source:
5pm UPDATE: New record highs today: 25C Montreal, 28C Ottawa and Prescott/Ogdensburg. Lake Ontario is keeping Kingston cool at 17C while just up the 401 Brockville is 27C.Meanwhile the cool Atlantic is keeping Boston at 11C (52F) while most other locations in New England are in the 75-80F range with the exception of the immediate Lake Champlain shore line and as mentioned the immediate New England coast.It appears we will skip a season, at least for the next two days. Strong high pressure will dominate the weather along the Atlantic coast and New England into southern Quebec and Ontario. The warm sunshine and strong southerly flow will push the mercury to summer readings of about 20 degrees above normal to record highs of 25C in Montreal and 23 to 27C in most regions away from the rivers or lakes. The cooler bodies of water will keep temperatures down in places like Kingston. The record high in Montreal for today was 16C set in 2009 and for tomorrow’s date it is 21C set in 1981. If all goes as planned we should shatter those records. Temperatures are responding slowly this morning as areas of fog burn off. But they are coming up nicely to our west and south with readings already near the 17C mark along the US/Ontario borders.
From the Montreal Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/Here+chilling+record+heat/2759219/story.html
Low Temperatures being set in the cold spots of the High-Elevation American West
March has, in many years been the month to see the last of sub-zero lows in the US and it’s almost always the high-elevated mountain plateaus of Wyoming, Montana and other known national cold spots across the Intermountain West (rather than the east), but we have seen the first mornings of April display some pretty low readings with the 1st of April seeing -4F at Bodie State Park, California which often endures the national low during the summer. A spot, high in the Sierra Mountains and snowcovered well into springtime can see extremely cold nights as dry air sinks into the high elevated spot…. Yesterday morning (2nd April) saw a low of -8F at Lake Yellowstone, Wyoming. It too like many other locations have a similar geography of high elevation bowls or basins in which “Dry Western Air” will heat by day and cool by night and this air which grows colder and colder after dark will slide down “shallow” valley walls and settle at the bottom of these bowls that are often 4,000 to as much as 10,000 ft above sea level. Snow remains on the ground for most of the year at these sheltered locales and this helps in the radiational cooling process..
Interestingly the high yesterday at Lake Yellowstone was a chilly 26 degrees! Impressively cold for April… More on this later.
Thanks for reading.
-Mark
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