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Wouldn't be fine when JB officially starts talking about Memorial Day weekend, as of this morning. https://x.com/BigJoeBastardi/status/1922282897592971662 CFS v2 and CPC agree. CFS v2: CPC: There are a lot of times that cold Memorial Day weekends have been followed by cooler than normal summers like 2003, 1996, or 1992. Also, the NAO and PNA will be negative by that time while the AO is near neutral.

1.68" this morning. That gives me a 3 day total of 3.59".

The Black Hills have some serious elevation and have had some crazy late season dumps.

Meant more into Montana and maybe Wyoming...should have specified that

Been cranking in Columbia since I got here and, of course, the precip rates improved on my drive in while crossing Parr's Ridge. Beautiful event so far, at least in the northern tier.

I'm thinking a lesser version of Venus will develop eventually, maybe even permanent cloud cover. With 70% of the surface covered in oceans, it's not even that much of a stretch. The permanent cloud cover will help even out the temperatures across the planet so that's a way of planetary self regulation too, not that we want that lol.

1.18" here in the South River watershed. It's still steadily lightly raining. I'm going to take a hike and check out the flowering mountain laurel.

Only Phoenixville and Spring City are NWS COOP stations and used by NCEI. The others are not used by NCEI.

This year is shot. Ready for 2026 already.

Yea, because there are some extremely high peaks in the northern plains....

There is some truth to that. If you look back at periods that had similar CO2 levels and resultant temps 5c warmer then current. The poles were warm enough to support forrests. Warming is much more pronounced closer to the poles.

Steady light - sheet rain has yielded 0.11 here in the last few hours.

1.02” here

Just broke 1” mod steady rain

Wow .... things haven't changed much here. Haven't been on here in quite a while, and Kev still likes dongs slapping him in the head.

Columbia 1:30pm imby: 0.86” so far, rain ongoing, temp 66.6°

Columbia 1:30pm imby: 0.86” so far, rain ongoing, temp 66.6°

Looks like we are done with the long duration rainfall but we've got storms popping in SW mountains that can lay some rain down.

He also never posts the record lows which would invariably show a much greater bias towards early year than record highs, especially using his convention of ignoring subsequent ties.

only 0.26" at CHO and we've got sun trying to peak through now

Seen in the skies above the greater Litchfield NH metropolis just now. Does this mean Tatum is magically healed ?

Flash flooding happening in the valleys around Cumberland. 2.00-3.50” of rain so far with more to come.

Those maps are always just a bunch of nonsense anyways. Martz only lists the first occurrence of a record high so it biases it toward earlier years. With that said, even using his data, 10 of 50 states have set monthly record highs since 2000. That's 20 percent of all states. Keep in mind, the data this is drawn from actually extends beyond 1895, with scattered data all the way back to 1870 [and limited data before then]. Limiting to 1895, that's 20 percent in 19.3 percent of the total years. Extending back to 1870, that becomes a fairly hefty overweighting of recent record highs. Again, especially considering that Martz only shows the first occurrence, so there are probably more recent ties not reflected on the map. Data quality on some of these records are also highly questionable. He includes even highly questioned observations. I saw one record shown in March for the State of Missouri that was 10+ degrees warmer than any other observation from the same month. When I went back to the original document, the Weather Bureau had actually drawn a question mark by a few of the observed highs. And even some of the recognized highs are questionable by today's standards. For instance, the 112F at Martinsburg, West Virginia in July 1936. It was 105F in Kearneysville, and 103F in Hagerstown on the same day. Is that level of discrepancy plausible for a daytime high temperature? @FPizzand @ChescoWxwould be having a conniption fit. People are constantly complaining about ASOS readings a couple of degrees too high on here.