You can thank Monday's 79 degree high for coaxing an above average week in the temperature department. Temperatures ultimately averaged a degree above where we "should" be in early April but there was little average about temperatures on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday. Monday's high of 79 was the warmest we've seen so far this year (although tomorrow may very well change that), with Tuesday's high of 70 occurring at 1 AM in advance of a cold front that brought two rounds of rain through the area, the second of which dropped temperatures twenty degrees in an hour's time in many locations and left a raw, chilly afternoon. Friday's mid 40's included two-thirds of an inch of rain in Philadelphia on a day more typical of November than April.
Nationally, the brunt of the warmth so far has continued to remain in the Plains and Southwest...which has been the trend for the better part of the last month where temperatures have been significantly above average and precipitation has been next-to-nonexistent. The trend of a hot, dry Plains summer seems increasingly likely.
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