Weather Tidbits: Easter Climatology at Salisbury

This edition of Weather Tidbits will be discussing Easter Sunday climatology at Salisbury. Easter in Salisbury has featured a wide range of temperatures since records were kept back in 1906. April 18, 1976, recorded the Easter high temperature of 90 degrees. April 1,1923, recorded the coldest Easter low temperature of 15 degrees. March 29, 1970, was the wettest Easter with 1.61″ of rainfall reported. Interestingly enough, the snowiest Easter was April 4, 1915, with a trace of snow reported. This was following an impressive snowstorm the day before that dumped 10 inches of snow in Salisbury, making this the only White Easter in Salisbury on record! Averaging out the data, the average maximum temperature for Easter here is 62, the average minimum temperature is 42, and the average precipitation is 0.19″.