Easter Sunday Weather History

Heat? Humidity? Rain? Cold? Snow? Given the nature and variability of when the Easter Holiday can fall over the course of the spring season, our region has seen it all throughout the years. Since the start of 2020, however, we haven't seen anything all too crazy or unexpected here in Albany. Low temperatures have ranged from 26 to 34, with highs ranging from 48 to 64. Interestingly, only a trace of rainfall was recorded on Easter Sunday 2022 despite just a 14 degree diurnal range, or the spread between the low and high temperature.

2022 is the only rainfall observation on Easter Sunday so far this decade, and our current forecast looks to continue the theme of dry Easters. We will get our weekend rain out of the rain on Saturday - a few showers and thunderstorms are expected, interrupting large intervals of dry time. We look to start the day considerably milder, however, than the past 5 Easter Sundays, with morning temperatures in the mid 40s. Afternoon highs look seasonable, near 60 before all is said and done.

So the 2020s, to this point, have seen rather boring weather for Easter (which isn't a bad thing when it's sunny & 60 - the good kind of boring!). However, Easter can technically fall between March 22nd and April 25th, given that Easter is observed on the first Sunday following the first full moon after the Spring Equinox. Thus, we can get just about any weather on Easter!

The warmest Easter Sunday was back in 1976, when it reached 90 degrees on April 18th. The coldest Easter was just 17 years prior, where the mercury fell to just 5 degrees with a late-March celebration. The wettest Easter was way back in 1901, when 1.12" of water collected in the rain gauge. And perhaps the craziest part of these facts... Just two years after our warmest Easter on record in Albany, nearly 4 inches of snow was measured on Easter in March of 1978! Imagine or remember an Easter Egg Hunt, with the eggs hidden in the snow!