April 29, 2024 Hot Mid-Atlantic to End Month
Eastern U.S. trends to comfortable, summer-like warmth
April 2024 was the 15th-warmest April in the 132-year national record (1895–2026), at 53.6°F against a 1991–2020 normal of 51.8°F (+1.8°F).
April 2024 was the 37th-wettest April in the 132-year national record (1895–2026), at 2.8in against a 1991–2020 normal of 2.7in (+0.1in).
NOAA/NCEI Climate at a Glance, contiguous United States. This is the observed record for the month, not a score of anything said in this piece — the forecast ledger begins 2026-08-17 and cannot reach earlier posts.
Temperatures in the 90s today in the Mid-Atlantic and then continued comfortable warmth into early May. Nothing too extreme — just seasonably mild.
The upper-level pattern looks very progressive with a series of upper-level troughs rotating around the hemisphere along the jet stream waveguide.
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