April 2025: A look back at last month's weather
Your StormTracker 59 team goes back into the weather files to highlight some of the most impactful weather of the month for April 2025:
Warmest High Temperature: 84 degrees (April 19th)
Coolest High Temperature: 43 degrees (April 8th)
Coolest Low Temperature: 24 degrees (April 9th)
Warmest Low Temperature: 64 degrees (April 19th)
Overall, April was a warm month across southern West Virginia – the fifth warmest in recorded history for Beckley!
The first half of the month featured more below average days than above, but we made up for it during the second half of the month, with upper-level ridging supporting many warm days, including three high temperatures in the 80s! The heat peaked from the 18th to the 21st and then again from the 28th to the 30th – during both stretches, there was not a high temperature lower than 78!
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When it's all said and done, we were quite a bit above average and not far from historically warm, coming in just a couple of degrees shy of the record, which was set recently in 2017. In fact, four of the top five warmest Aprils in Beckley in recorded history have occurred since 2017:
2017: 58.4 degrees
1948: 58.0 degrees
2011: 57.3 degrees
2025: 56.6 degrees
2019: 56.4 degrees
In total, seventeen of the 30 days were above average, twelve were below average and one was right at average. Interestingly, the April was a month of waves: we were above average from the 2nd-7th, below average from the 7th-17th minus the 14th, and then above average from the 18th-30th minus the 25th and 26th. Pretty wild!
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Overall, most areas were slightly below average in rainfall for the month of April, but not low enough to be alarming. Some of our southeastern towns
Wettest Day: 0.85″ (April 4th)
Though none of our region experienced during the month of April, we did exit April on a dry note, leading to many areas in our region upgraded to 'Abnormally Dry' conditions according to the Drought Monitor. This is the predecessor to drought conditions – hopefully we can get a couple of steady rains in May that allow for the groundwater to be replenished without causing flooding!
Easter took place on April 20th and it was a warm one – the warmest Easter we had seen over the last ten years, with high temperatures flirting with 80 degrees! The Easter Bunny likely needed a nice cold lemonade to stay cool while flinging eggs and delivering baskets!
The full moon for April was the Pink Moon, which took place on April 12th. A cool period made for jacket-wearing to view the moon!
Launched in 2022, #WeatherTogether is a dedicated community photo album hosted by 59News and StormTracker 59 to allow viewers to submit weather photos directly to us that we can share on all our platforms on-air or online. These photos are also showcased in our web-based photo album on our site for all to see and enjoy! Any photo of interesting weather, storm damage, snowfall, pets playing in puddles or snow and the likes are all welcomed! We hope to use this to showcase the beauty of the two Virginias through the eyes of our viewers and the vastly dynamic weather we see because we think there is no place more beautiful than here.
See for yourself the collection of photos already submitted or submit a few of your own, here.February 2025 Monthly Review
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