TOP FIVE DRIEST APRIL LOOKING LIKELY FOR NYC...

After a weakening area of showers moves through late this evening into the overnight, the weather will be very tranquil through the weekend and much of next week.  A stray shower could pop up Sunday night or Monday night, but the potential is VERY low at this time for this to transpire.

 As it stands now, the park only has 1.27 of rain for the entire month; the prospects of little to no rainfall the next seven days all but assures that NYC will make the record books for dry Aprils since record keeping began in 1869.

So while in the Mid-West, where it's too wet to plant, we have the opposite problem!

WPC 7-day total precip shows between .01-.10 for the area through next Thursday 5/2/13

The pattern could turn wet, cool and stormy again in the first full week of May, as a cool pocket aloft may try to churn up a coastal storm.

But until then,  at least the next 7 days and probably beyond, spring is in full swing, which should make a lot of people's hearts sing.

Intellicast