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Easter's Wide Range of Weather Over the Years

Easter's Wide Range of Weather Over the Years
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By National Weather Service
Apr. 20, 2019 | PADUCAH
By National Weather Service Apr. 20, 2019 | 09:55 AM | PADUCAH
For our region, this Sunday's forecast of sunshine and 78 degrees is just about as good as it gets, right in the sweet spot of a nearly 60-degree range of previous high temperatures.

Of course, that's mostly due to the fact that the Easter holiday hops back and forth on the calendar from as early as March 22 to as late as April 25.

This year's late holiday almost guaranteed that we would not challenge Paducah's coldest Easter high of 36 degrees set in 1970. A more recent memory could be the morning of 2007 when the day started at 21 degrees.

But we're also not in range of our only 90-degree Easter ever, occurring in 1946.

The vast majority of Paducah's holiday highs have been in the 60s, 70s or 80s since 1938; in fact only 21 times has the high been outside the window.

The chance for rain on Easter? Even though it has rained for three years in a row in Paducah, it's actually almost a coin flip whether it'll be a wet Easter over the years; 43 per cent of Paducah's Easter Sundays have seen rain. But it's only been an inch or more five times, the latest happening in 2017.

The wettest Easter ever was fairly recent, when almost four inches was dumped on Barkley Field in 2011.

It has not snowed on Easter in Paducah for 79 years. In fact it was the only time ever recorded, but it was a big one when two inches of the white stuff fell in 1940.

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Paducah's Easter Climate Statistics
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