Last week was the unofficial introduction to our severe weather season with Severe Weather Awareness Week. But April is still one of those months where we can see anything from heat and humidity to snowfall to severe weather. Sometimes in the same week! To give you just a taste of what Mother Nature can do in the Midwest in just the first week of April alone, here is a look at some of the wackier weather events that happened over 35 years ago. Back on April Fool’s Day in 1988 in the very small town of Rye, Colorado, which is in the south-central part of Colorado, was hit hard with almost three feet of snow. How about that for an April Fool’s joke?! That same snowstorm didn’t stop there, though. In Oklahoma, about a foot and a half of snow fell. Oklahoma doesn’t see a lot of snow throughout the winter let alone in April! Then closer to home in western Kansas, the same storm dropped almost 20 inches of snow on the home of just over 800 people called Sharon Springs. Around here, we didn’t really get anything from that storm. It was chilly, though. The high for the day was in the 40s (the normal high is 60!) and the low was 16 degrees.
Weather Last Week
March 24: 27/67/0”
March 25: 34/67/0”
March 26: 29/76/0”
March 27: 26/83/0”
March 28: 37/80/0”
March 29: 29/42/0.2” Snow
March 30: 28/38/Trace
Forecast discussion for the week ahead:
April is one of those months where we can see very different weather in a short amount of time. That’s basically our forecast for the next several days. It’s going to be chilly heading into the weekend, then much warmer next week. Rain and snow is possible into the weekend, then lots of sun next week!