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I can gladly say I dont remember 1982-83, as my mom was pregnant with me haha. But I will say for as much as I dog on 1995-96, at face value 1982-83 was absolutely a much shittier winter. It could have easily been the least snowy winter of all-time (just 9" thru 3/19) but heavy spring snow let us finish at a still terrible 20". But the fact that most of winter was bare after a 64F Christmas is just disgusting. But the winter of 1995-96 was a cold winter with a parade of storms all around us, whereas 1982-83 seemed more like a mild winter with 1 great storm in the east. 1995-96 was the definition of screw zone, but SE MI really hasnt had a screwzone winter since, so I guess its better to let it all out at once (by screwzone I mean how we performed compared to nearby areas).

We are starting to lessen the negative temp anomalies in the East, of the note the NW US really starts to heat up, as the PNA starts to rebound. .

Heavy sigh** Great

By the way, 1993-94 was definitely a solid winter here. I was quite young (10) so I remember only bits and pieces. It had a 10" snowstorm in Jan and 2-storms of 6" in Feb, plus the coldest day of the 20th century at Detroit (Jan 19th, high -4F, low -20F). It was certainly one of the best winters of the 1990s, but between my young age and the fact that there were just too many good 2000s/2010s winters, that even if i let it leapfrog 1998-99 as best winter of the '90s and allow for not remembering it all, it could still be no higher than #10 on my alltime list (and possibly lower), whereas I know its one of the favorites on the east coast.

I dipped to 52 degrees, it felt refreshing. Though there was a lot of dew.

When I was a teenager in Central PA in the early 00s there was a a summer where we had really bad Canadian wildfire smoke - I think it was 2002. Here's an old paywalled news story about it: https://www.morningjournal.com/2002/07/08/smoke-from-canada-forest-fires-blankets-northeastern-states/ I agree with you and @WxUSAF that it seems to be more frequent post 2020. There is an interesting branch of climate research that deals with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrocene

EPS a couple days later, but decent signal this far out. Nice trough out west to help break off heat from the Plains.

While the pattern is warming up from late May, it’s still staying wet. So even though the temperatures are above average, the high end potential is limited. Would need to see things really dry out for major mid 90s to around 100° as the month progresses.

@Damage In Tolland

Quintessential June morning. 66° and the last of the trees are blooming. Hard to beat a nice June day.

I started to measure at age 9 back in 87/88. My first year was incomplete, so I used Rutgers data since the college was partly in my town. My older brother was big into weather and even went to college for it, so we were both little snow weenies from an early age. My first 4 seasons measuring all pretty much stunk, 12.5, 17, 20 and 15". Once I was married and moved, I only moved about 14 miles west, so the data is similar. Though, if I had moved to where I am now, Boxing Day here was only 7" and 14 miles east where I was was 24". I would have flipped out! But that goes to show you, using one location and using blanket statements like the whole area is in a new climate is just not the way to go all the time and doesn't tell the whole story.

another comfortably cool day low dewpoint feel nice...i am still wearing my hoodie..

Who lives there?

52 was my overnight low, already up to 68 at 9:15am. MU already honking about severe weather at the end of the week.

WPC is still pretty good on precip over the next 7 days. GFS backed off. The Euro still pretty wet.

HIE reported 32 this morning so you're not alone. IZG had 36 and we were about the same. Last 30s until September?

Heh 25 deg rise and it's only 9 and change. impressive 45 to 70

46 this morning.

I think this also happened to you in 2010-11 for the Boxing Day event.

Yes the high end el ninos create these jumps that accentuate its effects even more. It makes me wonder if these high end el ninos are increasing in frequency too.

1997: It was a chilly day in the East. The high temperature at Philadelphia International Airport was only 59 degrees, tying a record-low maximum for the date set back in 1881. The temperature at Middletown, Pennsylvania rose to 58 degrees, breaking the record-low maximum for the date of 59 degrees set back in 1915. Washington, DC only reached 58 degrees, breaking the old record-low maximum of 59 set back in 1915. Central Park in New York City only reached 61 degrees. 2002: An impressive heat burst at Amarillo, TX caused the temperature to jump to 90° at 3:21 am. The heat burst was accompanied by winds of 55 mph. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) wow I didn't know or remember this about 1997. What was our low that morning? Wild, 1915 had one of our largest late season snowfalls ever in the month of April. Heat bursts are one thing Texas is famous for, Kopperl Texas had a severe one when the temperature rose to 140 degrees and trees and even wooden doors were burned!

That should be par for you in early June.

correct, this is more of a typical early summer pattern.

This pattern is nothing like May though, the temperatures are going to be warmer (mid to upper 70s) as opposed to the horror we had in May. This is just a wet humid summery pattern with showers from time to time.

Monday/Tue next week then trough into the GL/MW overall beyond there. Euro similar to the Canadian (not sure why its not updating yet). Week of 15 looks warmer as of now with ridging and more heat from the SW building east, perhaps the Western Atlantic Ridge back west later on in the month as well. No sustained heat on the horizon but what has become more typical above normal overall with potentially routine storms/showers with the trough to our west.