Tuesday lived up to the kind of spring day people remember. After a cooler Monday, summer-like warmth returned across the area, with forecasters calling it a 10/10 late-April day and expecting plenty of sunshine to dominate the skies through Tuesday afternoon and evening.
Temperatures were running 15F to 25F warmer than at the same time on Monday, a sharp turnaround that pushed highs into the low-70F's closer to Rochester and the mid-upper 70F's elsewhere. Dew points were expected to stay in the mid-40F's, keeping the air comfortable even as the weather turned well above average for this time of year.
A weak cold front slid through Tuesday morning, but it was not expected to do much more than turn the wind from southerly to northerly. Early winds of 5 to 15 mph were expected to ease to 5 to 10 mph during the afternoon, and the front was not expected to produce real cloud cover until it was well to the southeast.
That is what made Tuesday stand out: the front passed, but it did not take the warmth with it. Instead, the area stayed under bright skies and spring conditions that felt more like early summer by the afternoon, with the warmup holding through the evening and leaving little doubt about the answer to what's the weather.
