April 2022 Climate Summary for Northern and Eastern Maine

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CLIMATE REPORT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME

447 PM EDT SUN MAY 01 2022

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...THE BANGOR ME CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL 2022...

...APRIL 2022 NORTHERN/EASTERN MAINE MONTHLY CLIMATE NARRATIVE...

APRIL 2022 ACROSS NORTHERN AND EASTERN MAINE FINISHED SLIGHTLY

ABOVE AVERAGE FOR TEMPERATURE, ABOVE AVERAGE FOR PRECIPITATION,

AND GENERALLY BELOW AVERAGE FOR SNOWFALL.

TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE REGION RANGED FROM AVERAGE ACROSS THE FAR

NORTH UPWARDS TO 1.5 DEGREES ABOVE AVERAGE FOR CENTRAL AND

DOWNEAST AREAS. CLOUDY, WET CONDITIONS LIMITED TEMPERATURE

EXTREMES ACROSS THE REGION THIS MONTH WITH ONLY LOCATIONS FROM

MILLINOCKET AND SOUTHWARD EXPERIENCING 60+ DEGREE HIGHS AFTER

APRIL 10TH AND ONLY HOULTON ACROSS THE NORTH ON APRIL 25TH. THE

COLDEST MORNING ACROSS MOST THE ENTIRE REGION WAS ON THE MORNING

OF THE 6TH WITH LOWS RANGING FROM TEENS NORTH TO LOWER TO MID 20S

DOWNEAST.

TOTAL PRECIPITATION ACROSS THE REGION RANGED FROM 100 TO 140

PERCENT OF NORMAL. THE MOST SIGNIFICANT EVENTS FALLING FROM THE

8TH-10TH AND THE 27TH-29TH WHERE UPWARDS OF AROUND AN INCH OF

LIQUID EQUIVALENT PRECIPITATION FELL FOR EACH EVENT.

SNOWFALL FOR THE MONTH WAS RELATIVELY SCANT RANGING FROM A TRACE

OVER DOWNEAST AREAS UPWARDS TO 50 PERCENT OF AVERAGE ACROSS THE

NORTH. THE MOST SIGNIFICANT EVENT OCCURRED LATE IN THE MONTH ON

THE 28TH-29TH, AND MOSTLY AFFECTED HIGHER TERRAIN OF NORTH

CENTRAL, NORTHEAST, AND EAST CENTRAL AREAS WITH 2 TO 5 INCHES.

A FEW LOCATIONS, HOWEVER, LIKE MARS HILL AND JEMTLAND THAT WERE

UNDER LOCALIZED BANDS OF HEAVY SNOW RATES RECEIVED UPWARDS OF 8 TO

10 INCHES, ABOUT THE NORMAL COMPLIMENT OF APRIL SNOWFALL.

SNOWPACK WAS ONLY PRESENT FOR NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE REGION AT

THE BEGINNING OF THE MONTH, AND INITIALLY GRADUALLY MELTED PRIOR

TO THE PRECIPITATION EVENT OF THE 8TH-10TH. MELTING OCCURRED MORE

RAPIDLY AFTER THE 8TH, RESULTING IN THE SUBSEQUENT DISLODGING OF

NORTHERN RIVER ICE WITH LITTLE IN THE WAY OF SIGNIFICANT FLOODING

DURING THE WEEK AFTERWARDS. MAXIMUM SNOWPACK AT CARIBOU WAS 16

INCHES ON THE MORNING OF THE 1ST WITH FAR NORTHERN WOODS LOCATIONS

STILL AROUND 30 INCHES, AFTERWARDS CARIBOU DOWN TO TRACE ON THE

GROUND BY THE 12TH. THE MONTHLY AVERAGE SNOWPACK AT CARIBOU OF

2.9 INCHES WAS BELOW THE 1991-2020 30 YEAR MEAN OF 4.1 INCHES,

DESPITE CURRENT SEASONAL SNOWFALL TOTAL OF 123.1 INCHES, WHICH IS

NEARLY 5 INCHES ABOVE THE 1991-2020 30 YEAR AVERAGE.

THE CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER`S FORECAST FOR THE MONTH OF MAY

FOR OUR REGION IS CALLING FOR NEAR NORMAL TO SLIGHTLY INCREASED

CHANCES OF BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES AND EQUAL CHANCES OF BELOW,

NEAR NORMAL, OR ABOVE NORMAL PRECIPITATION. NORMAL TEMPERATURES

ACROSS THE REGION IN MAY RANGE FROM LOWS LOWER 40S AND HIGHS OF

LOWER TO MID 60S. NORMAL PRECIPITATION FOR THE MONTH IS AT OR

JUST BELOW 3.50 INCHES.

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