Well system No 2 delivered as expected in a swath from southern Ontario to Cape Cod. Skies cleared quickly in it’s wake allowing visible satellite to pick up what was left behind.

Check out southern Ontario’s snow cover contrast between March 29 and April 4.

Despite the longer days and much higher, stronger sun angle, this system was cold, holding daytime maximums over upstate New York and New England below freezing yesterday, resulting in record cold maximums.

With arctic air moving sliding over fresh snow cover even in April brings record cold.

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Skies cleared after sunset and temps could only go one way… down!

-10C in mid levels got down to Virginia this morning.

Surface temps.

Pretty amazing to see such a long standing record fall at Rochester, NY this morning.

-11 in Michigan’s Up, impressive!

-7 at Marquette, MI is their 2nd coldest ever April minimum.

Widespread record lows this morning.

and beautiful sun rises!

Midtown Manhattan looking east.

Midtown Manhattan looking south. Skies don’t get much clearer than this.

An impressive drop between yesterday’s high and this morning’s low in and around DC!

Current temps as of 10.30am ET

With the cold trough swinging out into the Atlantic and the next low pushing into the Great Lakes, we see a temperature recovery till the weekend where an even deeper, colder trough may drop over the Northeast.

Then down comes the weekend monster and mother of all April troughs.

Record Heat Out West

See this morning’s video.

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