Saturday, June 02, 2012
Warmest Spring on Record
It's official: this was the warmest spring on record since the spring of 1878, when the average temperature was 58.2 degrees. The average temperature during the months of March, April and May this year was 59.5 degrees.
The average daytime high temperature this spring was 70.6 degrees and the average overnight low was 48.5 degrees.
This comes on the heels of the eighth warmest May on record, an ordinary April and the warmest March since records started being kept for the region in 1871.
This March, the average temperature was 55.5 degrees - 12.5 degrees above the normal reading of 43 degrees.
New heat records were set on three dates in March and temperatures matched heat records on another three days.
So far this year, rainfall totals are nearly two inches below the average. As of Friday morning 16.89 inches of rain had fallen; normal rainfall by June 1 is 18.59 inches.
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We drove up for a visit with the relatives over the Memorial Day Holiday; stopping in Canal Fulton and the flower shop before the visit to the first cemetery.
Gene takes the time to prepare the soil; planting our flowers is a pleasure.
We drove over to Pennsylvania to visit Aunt Velma and Aunt Nina. Aunt Nina and Uncle Squeak took us along with them to purchase and plant flowers at two of the cemeteries.
Returning to Ohio, we visited with relatives before heading home.
Altogether, a good trip!
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# posted by Martha @ 4:36 PM 
