Greening-up Fields March 31st.

Temperatures were very warm both Tuesday and Wednesday, with a warm air mass that moved in after a strong warm front moved through Tuesday, which brought very strong southerly winds, gust as high as 30-35MPH were reported. Tuesday March 30th was actually the day I officially hit 70.F for the first time this season. This was earliest 70 degree reading that I’ve recorded in my records, in the past 3 years. Last year my first 70 was April 16th.

Wednesday,winds were more calm, and temperatures soured well into 70s, after lows well in the middle 50s. Party sunny to sunny skies lead to many places reaching the low to mid 70s. Shorts and Short sleeve shorts were common through out the area today. Toady’s highs were 30 degrees warmer then average! The average high is about 45.F, our low temperatures the past couple of nights, have not even been anywhere near the average highs for this time of year! last night my low was a very mild 55.F, I left the windows open all night!

Highs reported Wednesday.

The warmest location was Baldwin, with a high of 76.F the coolest place turned out to be Spooner at 68.F this area held under the thin cloud cover for longer.

our yard March 31st.

March 2010 was definitely a Warm and Dry one, But this March has a significant different then most Marches we experience, because we haven’t even had a trace of snow at all! My location spent all 31 days this month with high temperatures above 32.F, 15 days were spent above 50.F, 6 days were above 60, we even spent the very end of the month in the 70s! with the highest temperature in March reported at 74.F on the 31st. The overall monthly mean temp this month at my location was 51.F, This is well above the mean March average high of 38. Our snow cover was completely melted by the second week of the month the last day I had measurable snow on the ground was March 13th. a mild rainy weather system did our snow pack in, since then it has been warm and dry, with only a couple cool days. This was the perfect set-up for a snow less month of March.

During the entire month of March I’ve haven’t had any snow at my location, so go in the records as 0.00″ and 0.61″ of Rain. This will go down as a fairly dry month, The average snowfall for March is 8.20″. Snowless Marches are not unheard of, but are extremely rare in Wisconsin, so rare that this was the least snowiest March in modern history according to my local NWS, completely snow free Marches have only occurred twice at Minneapolis/St Paul airport twice since weather records began there. in my experience, this was the least snowiest March I’ve ever experienced. This was the second March in a row with below normal snowfall, last March I recorded 3.50″ of snow.