Average central Indiana Easter Sunday: 60 degrees and no rain

An old adage suggests that if it rains on Easter Sunday, it will rain every Sunday for seven weeks.

Hang up your raincoats and stow your umbrellas for that apparently will not be the case this year. Judging by forecast of 74 degrees and partly sunny being predicted for Sunday, Easter bonnets and the frills upon them should stay dry across central Indiana.

While that old saying is not much more than fodder for discussion, the National Weather Service is sharing a few interesting Easter Sunday climatological facts to ponder about central Indiana:

-- The average Easter Sunday high temperature has been 60 degrees, while the average low is 40 (those average values were arrived at by averaging Easter holidays from 1872-2013).

-- The warmest Easter Sunday ever was 1941 when it was 86 degrees, while the coldest Easter Sunday high temperature was 23 degrees in 1894 and the coldest low recorded was 15 degrees in 1940.

-- The average rainfall for Easter Sunday is 0.11 inches.

-- The most rain to fall on Easter Sunday was 2.01 inches recorded in 1921.

-- The most snow to ever fall on Easter Sunday was 0.3 inches in both 1964 and 1972.

-- The most snow on the ground on any Easter Sunday was just a trace in 1928, 1972, 1975 and 1978.