PEORIA, Ill. — April snow has traditionally been a fairly rare occurrence in Peoria, but not in the last five years.
With snow in the forecast for late Thursday and early Friday, forecasters are predicting measurable snow in April for the 5th straight year in Peoria.
For the past four years in a row, we’ve seen measurable snowfall in April, including a storm that brought two inches of accumulation in April, 2020 as well as another storm which brought a nearly unprecedented five inches of snow the April before that.
The National Weather Service considers measurable snow to be a tenth of an inch or more.
Online weather records for Peoria show the last time there were four or more consecutive years of measurable snow in April in Peoria was back in the early 1970’s.
Between 1972 and 1975, Peoria saw four straight April snow storms, but each of them paled in comparison to this more recent five year stretch in terms of total snowfall.
Across those four consecutive years in the 1970’s, the area saw barely two inches of measurable snow in total.
Now — Peoria could record a total of more than 8 inches of snow across these last five Aprils.
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