Just about every kind of weather except for hurricanes has occurred onEaster Weekend. Shown here is the blistering heat wave that scorched theNortheast during the Easter Weekend of 1976. The heat was caused by a perfectalignment of the surface winds and upper air flow which allowed hot air fromthe Desert Southwest to be transported all the way to the Northeast. Oddlyenough, many locations that recorded 90 degrees on Easter Sunday neverexperienced another 90-degree temperature all summer.The thing that made the heat hard to take was that this part of the countrywas just breaking out of winter. When you are used to 40s and 50s then all of asudden it's in the 90s, that's a killer.
Story by AccuWeather.com Expert Senior Meteorologist John Kocet.
