April 22, 2025 Tuesday Weather Update
Unsettled pattern east of the Rockies with plenty of rainfall
April 2025 was the 16th-warmest April in the 132-year national record (1895–2026), at 53.6°F against a 1991–2020 normal of 51.8°F (+1.7°F).
April 2025 was the 31st-wettest April in the 132-year national record (1895–2026), at 2.9in against a 1991–2020 normal of 2.7in (+0.2in).
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.
Let’s take a quick trip to Europe and North Africa to see some spinning cut-off troughs and Omega blocks forming from typical downstream Rossby wave progression across the Northern Hemisphere middle latitudes.
A sequence of troughs collect over the Mediterranean and if configured just right, they can access the cooler air from the polar front over Scandinavia and Germany.
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