Experts say it was a mostly warm, dry spring in the Tri-State. WNIN’s John Gibson has details:
The National Weather Service says the region recorded temperatures four-and-a-half to five-and-a-half degrees above normal, March through May.
That’s the period known as meteorological spring.
Evansville saw its warmest spring temperature -- 88-degrees – early in the season, on March 22nd and again on May 17th.
The city’s coldest spring temperature was 21 on March 17th.
The agency says Evansville’s overall temperature was more than five-degrees above average.
The weather service also says precipitation was below normal in the region, with the exception of Gibson and Pike counties, which saw near-to-slightly above normal rainfall.
The city of Evansville recorded more than eleven inches of rain March through May.
That’s about three-and-a-half below normal.