2017年4月 Saint 云 天气 Summary

Rains Come in April to Top Off Third Mildest Cold 季节

After a quite dry start to 2017 (1.99 inch of precipitation in the first 3 months), St. 云 caught up on rainfall in April. 一共3个.27 inches fell during the month, including 6 days exceeding a quarter inch of precipitation. By the end of April, the 2017 rainfall had climbed to 5.26英寸，只有0.10 inch below average. 还有圣. 云 Airport had one of the smaller rainfall amounts in the area as places in the eastern half of Minnesota picked up 3-6 inches of rain during April. Only northwestern Minnesota got mainly shut out of the rain.

While 2017年4月 was not nearly as unusual as the winter months, it did mark the ninth consecutive month with an average temperature at least a degree above normal. The April average was 46.0 degrees (average high: 56.5 degrees, average low: 35.4度)，1.5 degrees above average. 这包括St。. 云's first 70-degree high of the season on 4月8日. On the other hand, the only record temperature set in April was the 34 degree record cold high on 4月27日.

The April statistics pushed the Oct-April average temperature 在圣. 云到32.5 degrees, the third warmest cold season 在圣. 云记录, just behind 2015-2016 (33.2度). The warmest October through April 在圣. 云记录 was 2011-2012 with an average temperature of 35.3度.

而圣. 云 did end up cooling off late in the month with an inch of snow falling early on May 1, several cold season statistics rank among the warmest in city records. St. 云 had only 65 days this cold season with a high temperature of freezing or colder, which is tied for the 排名倒数第十. 云记录. Low temperatures dropped to freezing or colder on 150 days through mid-May. That would be the second lowest total 在圣. 云记录, ranking only behind 2015-2016 (143天).

That last inch of snow on May 1 ran the cold season snowfall to only 30.9 inches, a full foot below average. While there were 12 days that produced at least an inch of snow in 2016-2017, just short of the 14 day average, the generally mild conditions meant that the snow didn't stick around for long. There were only 65 days with at least an inch of snow cover, more than a month short of the 101 day average. The longest streak of consecutive snow cover days was 46 days, 40 days below the average.

In the past 6 winters, there have been two years ranking in the top 5 in snowfall (2012-2013 and 2013-2014) and three of the warmest winters on record (2011-2012, 2015-2016, 和2016 - 2017年).

2017年4月 Statistics