It’s constantly a plus when we report a month with above-normal rains since there have not been way too many of them. That’s what occurred in April.

Normally Austin’s 10th wettest month with simply 2.42″, this April did much better with 4.18″. Rain was determined (.01″ or more) seven days. In fact, 2.43″ of that 4.18″ was determined on April 6 and also 7, placing Austin over the typical overall really early in the month.

It’s the many rainfall determined in April because a most-welcomed 7.28″ in 2019.

April 2023 is the very first month with above-normal rainfall because November 2022 when 4.14″ was measured, a surplus of 1.22″. And, it’s the wettest month because 5.72″ in August 2022. Yes, August.

The excess of rainfall was not sufficient to make a damage in our continuous dry spell.

The “generous” rains, nonetheless, featured a heaping aiding of extreme climate occasions, specifically the recently of the month.

An upgraded record from the Storm Prediction Center reveals a minimum of 36 records of hail from 1.00″ in diameter up to a couple of reports of 2.50″ (two times) at Streeter (west of Mason). The western Hill Country saw the big hail rocks on the night of April 22. Travis and also Williamson areas saw the bulk of the hail throughout the extreme climate occasion on the mid-day of April 28. Thankfully, the month finished silently with sunlight.

Temperatures were, in such a way, 50-50 without any well-defined warmer-than-normal or cooler-than-normal. There were 13 days when the heat was over typical and also 14 times when the high was listed below typical. A collection of cold spells was liable for the ping-ponging of temperature levels throughout the recently of the month.

The 91° to shut the month brought the ordinary high to 79°, just somewhat listed below typical by 1.3°. The month gathered a typical of 68.5°, simply a level reluctant of typical.

Here’s really hoping for a damp, much less rainy May.