STRONG LOW-LEVEL COLD ADVECTION IS UNDERWAY, INITIAL LAKE-EFFECT SNOW ACTIVITY HAS EVOLVED LARGELY AS EXPECTED AS BLUSTERY TODAY LAKE-EFFECT SNOW CONTINUING THROUGH TONIGHT. Of course there was a price for crops to pay as April 2012 ended up close to average and there was a hard freeze on April 29th when the temp fell to 28° causing a lot of damage to crops that year. Not only that, but the records for the most consecutive March days with highs above 60, 70, and 80 degrees were also set. In Detroit, the mid-March heat wave was enough to vault the month to the top of the list of warmest Marches on record. Also, 18 inches of snow was still on the ground when the first record high fell on March 18 (64 degrees). Also, 10 straight days of new record highs (March 13 to March 22).Ģ6 The number of inches of snow that melted over the course of just seven days in Caribou, Maine, from March 15 to March 22, thanks to the unusual warmth. Eight of those days saw the mercury climb above 80 degrees, which is normal for mid-June.ĩ3 The temperature swing that occurred over the course of just nine days in International Falls, Minn., from a low of minus 14 degrees on March 9, to a high of 79 degrees on March 18.

Such low temperatures, about 30 degrees above normal, are more typical for mid-June.Į low temperature that day was even higher than the old record high temperatureĩ The number of consecutive days that Chicago, Ill., has broken a record high, from March 14 to March 22. In fact, a new all-time high temperature was set two days in a row, with the mercury first climbing to 84 degrees on March 21.Ħ0 The average low temperature in Chicago, Ill., from March 17 to March 22 of this year. In reaching 83 degrees on March 22, this came to fruition for the first time since March 21, 1921.Ĩ6 The new all-time record high temperature for March in Detroit, Mich., set on March 22. This occurred despite temperatures having dropped below zero for four days early in the month.ġ921 The last year it was above 80 degrees in Boston before March 28 of any given calendar year. The margin of defeat was so great that the 21.2 The temperature departure (in degrees Fahrenheit) from normal for the month of March thus far in Winnipeg, Canada. The new record high was 81 degrees, obliterating the old record of 49 degrees. The ‘Heat Wave’ of March 2012, By the Numbersģ2 The gap, in degrees, between the old and new record high on March 21 in Marquette, Mich. New All-Time Record High Temperatures for MarchĬity New Record High (Date) Old Record High (Date)Ĭleveland, Ohio 83 (3/20-3/22) – tie 83 (, ) Reaching a peak on March 21st with a high of 87° In all in that 12-day stretch Grand Rapids had 5 days of 80 or warmer 5 days of 71 or warmer and 2 days in the 60’s It started in earnest on March 14th when Grand Rapids had a high of 80° and for the next 12 days we had temps that would be more like June then March.

This was not a one or two day “warm” spell that we sometimes get in March but instead lasted for (at Grand Rapids) for 12 days. We generally do not think of the term “Heat Wave” when we think of the Month of March but in March of 2012 we had a very remarkable warm event take place. The record low of 5 was set in 1965 and todays record snow fall amount of 5.7” was set in 1965. For today the average H/L is 45/27 the record high of 75 was set in 1894,19. The overnight low here in MBT so far for today is the current temperature of 20 and there is snow falling and I have 2” now on the ground.

There was 0.35” of ran fall and a trace of snow fall, there was no sunshine. The official high at Grand Rapids yesterday was 49 reached at 4:25 AM the temperature fell all day and reached the low of 27 at 11:59 PM.

Detroit weather march 2022