Weather.com - Chris Dolce and Andy Cox, 5/15/13
April 2013 Temperature Rank (since 1895)
April 2013 ranked as the 23rd coolest April on record. The north-central states saw temperatures the farthest below average. North Dakota recorded its coldest April on record. Six additional states had a top ten coldest April. The Middle Atlantic, Vermont, Florida and the Southwest had above-average temperatures in April.
April 2013 was wetter-than-average and the coldest since 1997, according to a report released Wednesday by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), an arm of the federal government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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