After recording above-average temperatures during the months of March and April, our recent transition to cooler weather have many of you asking if cool weather will dominate the month of May.
My current thinking is that the first half of May will indeed finish below average, perhaps well below average, and any change toward the end of the month will not be sufficient to make this our third-straight above-average month.
Plus, according to research being done by Rob Kupec, if El Nino conditions are still present in May like this year, wetter- and cooler-than-average conditions often arrive in this area around the same time the planting season begins. Of course, this is exactly what appears to be happening this year.
Although El Nino springs tend to finish with slightly warmer-than-average temperatures, which will likely be the case this year, a three-month period rarely records similar weather throughout that entire period, and this spring will be another example of our quickly changing weather patterns.
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