Today's high was 76. The record for April 21 is 94, recorded in 1987.
Sunday: Breezy, mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Lows in the low 50s. Chance of rain 5 percent or less.
Tomorrow's weather column by WKRG's Alan Sealls:
Earth Day weather
Today is Earth Day but in meteorology every day is Earth Day. My focus is always air, water and sunlight. These three ingredients create all weather on Earth. Just as in making a cake, slight changes in the quantities of ingredients lead to widely different outcomes. While the weather impacts us, what we do on Earth impacts the weather too.
Cities create and trap more heat. Development removes trees and sometimes fills wetlands, changing humidity balance. Pollution changes the composition of air and rain. Airplane condensation trails create clouds to affect sunlight absorption. All of these byproducts of human existence feedback into the cycles of weather. It's not necessarily a bad thing but we do influence natural cycles and that's something to be considered in everything we do as individuals and as societies.
Enjoy the sunshine for this Earth Day and for the next several days. A brisk northwest wind will keep us with plenty of blue skies and golden sunshine. Daytime highs will be a bit below average in the comfortable middle 70s. Nights get cooler, falling into the upper 40s tonight and middle 40s tomorrow night. The entire workweek looks calm and dry.