Sheldon, Iowa — April, 2019 is in the books, and it was about normal for temperature, but WAY above normal in precipitation.
According to the official National Weather Service records as compiled by KIWA Radio, on the warmest day of April this year the mercury topped out at 82-degrees on April 21st, which is well below the record April high temperature of 98 which was recorded clear back on April 28, 1910. The average high temperature in Sheldon was 56-degrees in April this year, just 2-degrees cooler than the normal average high of 58. The coolest high temperature in April this year came on April 13th when we got up to just 32-degrees.
As for low temperatures, the coldest temperature reached in April, 2019 came on April 1st, when we got down to 19-degrees. The coldest temperature ever recorded in April came back on April 3, 1936, when the mercury tumbled to a frigid -2 degrees. The warmest low temperature for the month of April this year was on April 7th when we got down to a comfortable 50-degrees. Our average low temperature for April this year was 35-degrees which is the same as the normal average low temperature for April.
April was a much wetter than normal month, which I’m sure comes as no surprise. In April, 2019 5.33-inches of precipitation fell on Sheldon, which is more than twice the normal precipitation of 2.46-inches. We even received an inch of snow during April this year, 0.25-inches on April 2nd and again on April 28th, and 0.5-inches on April 12th. In a normal April we’d receive 1.9-inches of snow, so our one-inch in April this year puts us 0.9-inches below normal.
