It's April 7th, it's Boston, and it's 90 degrees already

[Xipe Totec]

Thank God there's no global warming, otherwise we'd be screwn...

:sarcasm:

[MiniMe]

1. It's 90 degrees in DC too, and I refuse to turn on the AC

At least it cools down at night now.

[walldude]

2. LOL.. we need some baggers in Colorado today..

It's like 70's out there right now, but last night is snowed. So it's 70's with snow on the ground. Let the baggers make something out of that! :rofl:

[azmouse]

3. I remember an April back in the 1970s when it was in the 90s in PA too.

It does happen from time to time.

[Warpy]

5. I think it was 1976

and that Easter weekend the high was 94. I ran around trying to find shorts and light shirts, thought I was gonna die.

Two days later, it was back to a typical Boston spring, 40 degrees with drizzle.

[azmouse]

6. That year sounds about right.

I was helping my aunt and uncle move that weekend and I remember sweating buckets in the unusual heat.

[Cetacea]

10. ITS NORMAL THIS TIME OF YEAR

Intense sarcasm

[cali]

4. aargh. hardly unheard of. this is as stupid as freepers insisting

that a cold winter is evidence that there is no global warming.

[Xipe Totec]

11. Actually, it is unheard of for Boston

The highest high temperature for Boston on this day was 86° (1991)

This is a new historical record.

http://www.boston.com/weather/

[cali]

14. No it's not unheard of.

just because on this particular date the temp was a record, means zilch. I lived in
Boston for years, and I remember very hot days in April- back in the seventies.

[Xipe Totec]

15. It's still a record for today

Quibble if you want.

http://wbztv.com/local/boston.weather.heat.2.1616718.html

[onenote]

7. I don't suppose it will do any good to ask, but could folks stop linking daily temperatures

to "global warming"? Temperatures fluctuate. Always have, always will. Looking at a single day's high or low tells you very little. Its been as hot or hotter in Boston in April before and it will be above or below average from time to time later in the month and throughout the year.

Its long term trends and extreme weather events that are noteworthy.

[protocol rv]

8. Global Warming?

I thought they were bragging about their ability to live without AC. I guess I don't understand Americans.

[Xipe Totec]

12. See post 11 for historical record.

[lbrtbell]

9. Out here, I was shoveling SNOW this morning

Now it's sunny, 60 degrees, and the snow is melted from the grass. If I'd known that was going to happen, I wouldn't have bothered shoveling. :mad:

For the record, the weatherguessers said we were going to get rain. Idiots.

[pscot]

13. We've got 40 degrees and overcast

with a 20 knot breeze and a threat of rain. Perferctly normal for Seattle in November.