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Easter Sunday Weather Of The Past
Mar 22, 2008 | 3:01 PM
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Considering Easter is not a set date nor a set day (ya know, like 3rd Monday of the month) holiday, the weather on Easter can vary wildly based on when the holiday falls. If you ever wanted to know when Easter is in the year, say, 2049, check out this site and you can see when Easter was going back to 1875 and going forward to 2124.

Easter's "fall date" is based on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the start of Spring. This Spring's first full moon was on Friday, which is why Easter is as early as it is this year.
Going back over the last 30 years Easter weather has varied pretty wildly. While Philadelphia has not received accumulating snow on any Easter since 1978, it has been pretty chilly (1996's high of 41 was the coldest of the last 30 years, on April 7th) on a few occasions but we have seen a 41 degree swing in high temperatures from the coldest since 1978 and the warmest (82, 1986, on March 30th).

We have had only one "frosty" Easter morning going back to 1978, last year's 31 degree low (April 8th). Our 2008 Easter weather will be similar but slightly warmer than 2007's, with a high temperature in the upper 40's expected in Philadelphia.

Source:  Phillyweather.net
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