Helen Qin holds her basket after a community Easter egg hunt sponsored by Stuart Heights Baptist Church at Coolidge Park Sunday morning.
Staff photo by John Rawlston/Chattanooga Times Free PressThis Easter was not a good day to be stuck inside a bunny suit, as Chattanooga temperatures climbed to 84 degrees Sunday.
“It’s not the hottest Easter we’ve ever had, but it ranks close to the top,” said WRCB-TV meteorologist Nick Austin.
The warmest Easter recorded in Chattanooga was in 1946, when the temperature reached 86 degrees. This year’s Easter high ties with four other years: 2006, 1999, 1981 and 1962, Austin said.
Though the holiday came late this year, the temperatures are still unseasonably high, according to Austin.
“Even for late April we’re about 10 degrees above normal,” he said. The normal high for Chattanooga at this time of the month is about 74 degrees.