1928 (Sunday)
Low temperatures ranged from 38° to 40° for the past nine days (the average low in late April is in the mid-40s). Besides chilly mornings, this period was also rainy, with slightly more than four inches of rain measured.
1974 (Monday)
The day after the year's first reading in the 80s (the high was 80°), today's high of 89° was a record for the date (a record that still stands) - 23 degrees above average.
2009 (Wednesday)
The day after the high reached 90°, today's temperature fell steadily throughout the day and was in the 50s during the afternoon.
2017 (Saturday)
For the second day in a row the high reached 85°. And although 4/16 had the warmest reading of the month (87°), today had the warmest mean temperature as the low of 64° was five degrees warmer than 4/16's.
2023 (Saturday)
For the first time (going back to 1869) more than an inch of rain fell on this date. Today's all-day rainfall of 2.46" broke the previous record of 0.91" in 1909. (This leaves Sept. 9 as the only date not to have a rainfall of an inch or more.) In total 2.79" fell from this low pressure system (0.33" fell last night), making this the biggest rainmaker since Oct. 25-27, 2021 when 3.69" fell.
Prior to today, the previous ten years that had rain on 4/29 all reported amounts less than 0.10". Besides the rain, it was also chilly as the high was only 53°, fourteen degrees below average.
2024 (Monday)
The high got up to 87°, 20 degrees above average, and the warmest reading in Central Park since 9/8 of last year, when the high reached 90°.
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