National Weather Service statistics show temperatures at Columbia Gorge Regional Airport in Dallesport averaged much warmer than normal during the month of April.  The average temperature was 59.4 degrees, over six degrees above normal and topping the previous warmest April on record, in 1977, by two degrees.  Highs averaged 72.4 degrees, more than seven degrees above normal, with a peak of 89 on April 19.  Lows averaged 46.4 degrees, which was just short of five degrees above normal.  The lowest was 35 degrees, on April 16.  Precipitation totaled just short of two-tenths of an inch during April, which was more than a half-an-inch below normal, but since October the water year precipitation at the airport has been 14.31 inches, which is nearly three inches above normal.  The outlook for May from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center calls for above normal temperatures and near normal precipitation.