Good day sunshine
MAUREEN DOLAN/Staff writer | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 11 years, 8 months AGO
<p>Carolyn Westrick spends some personal time on the North Idaho College beach Tuesday morning.</p>
COEUR d'ALENE - There's just something about sunshine and temperatures in the 70s.
People walking around downtown Coeur d'Alene seemed to have a little more bounce in their step Tuesday afternoon, the first time since September that the temperature rose above 70.
It was 72 degrees at 3:12 p.m. in Coeur d'Alene, said climatologist Cliff Harris.
"It was a long winter, but it has been a short spring," Harris said.
It wasn't a record high for the date, he said. The temperature rose to 82 degrees on April 8, 1977.
"So it was 10 degrees below the record, but still, it was nice," Harris said.
Things are going to revert back to more normal early spring weather, he said, with some moisture and maybe some thunderstorm activity on Wednesday.
Tuesday's balmy weather comes on the heels of one of the wettest months of March on record. Harris said 5.4 inches of rain fell last month in Coeur d'Alene. The only wetter March on record was in 2012 when 7.1 inches of rain fell.
"March isn't normally so wet," he said. "We had nearly three times the normal rain."
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