“April showers bring May flowers,” or so the saying goes.
Perhaps a more appropriate description this year might be, “Heavy April showers bring record flooding.”
“April showers bring May flowers,” or so the saying goes.
Perhaps a more appropriate description this year might be, “Heavy April showers bring record flooding.”
All that rain helped shrink the drought footprint for the contiguous U.S. to the lowest level since the nationwide Drought Monitor program began in 2000. It also caused loss of life and extensive property destruction in many communities.
Last month, the average contiguous U.S. temperature was 53.8 degrees F, 2.7 degrees above the 20th-century average. The month ranked as the 11th warmest April in the 123-year period of record, according to scientists from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. Much-above-average temperatures spanned the East, with record warmth in the Mid-Atlantic and Ohio Valley.
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