Here’s NOAA’s outlook for US summer weather—and hurricane season
Enlarge / Let's start with something nice... check the orange popping out of this April 14 satellite image of the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve. (credit: NASA EO)
On Friday, NOAA released its latest seasonal weather outlook for the US, which followed an updated hurricane season outlook. As always, the seasonal outlook starts with a look back at the previous month.
April 2020 was the 2nd warmest April on record globally, but a southward meander of the jet stream over Canada and the eastern US made this region of North America the exception. For the contiguous US, April was slightly below the average going back to 1895. Precipitation was similarly just below average, but a few states including Colorado and Nebraska had an extremely dry April, while the Virginias and Georgia were extremely wet.
This was the 2nd warmest April on record, globally. [credit: NOAA ]
If you live around the Midwest or Plains states, you won't be surprised to hear that recent weeks have not been particularly warm. That's because mid-April saw a hard freeze come through, with another freeze in the second week of May. While the April freeze wasn't really late compared to the long-term averages, it followed a warm spring that caused vegetation to pop up early in many places-only to be bitten by a frost.
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