By Rod Hill on 2016-05-02
It may come as little surprise, that PDX set the all - time record for being the warmest April! Records go back to October of 1940. The month set 7 individual temperature records for warm air & now holds the record in all three monthly temperature averages for April. Here at the numbers:
1. Warmest average high temp: 68.5 degrees (above normal by 7.1 degrees)
2. Warmest average low temp: 47.0 degrees (above normal by 3.9 degrees)
3. Warmest mean temp: 57.8 degrees (abvove normal by 5.5 degrees)
The previous warmest April was 2004.
Rod Hill
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