April

Updated at 6 pm EST on April 1, 2022 to reflect the issuance of the Week 3 – 4 Outlook that I think suggests that the Northern Tier of CONUS will be wetter than shown in the Outlook for April Issued yesterday.

At the end of every month, NOAA updates their Early Outlook for the following month which in this case is April. They also issue a drought outlook for the following month. We are reporting on that tonight. The updated Outlook is somewhat different from the Early Outlook which NOAA now calls the Mid-Month Outlook. It is overall less warm and less dry than the Mid-Month Outlook.  We provide partial-month outlooks for the first 22 days of April which will be 28 days when the Week 3 – 4 Update is issued on Friday.  We also provide enough information for readers to understand any changes from the Mid-Month Outlook and we try to figure out why these changes were made.  Most of the changes are explained in the NOAA discussion which is included in the article. When the Week 3 – 4 Outlook is released, we will provide an update to this article if it is needed.