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Took the thruway from Kingston around 9pm tonight and got treated to an awesome light show to the south.

Not bad for April w/ the storms in western MA/CT currently. HRRR 18 and 00z insisting isolated long-tracked supercell NY into NH later Thu. Then a :sun destroyed itself" day Fri w/ RW/TRW peppered all over the place by noon. Best tstm week in April for New England I can recall offhand. But somehow Scott will find a way to say MEH! LOL. SPC 2% tor western section Thu. Only 3 confirmed spinners in April in New England on record. Path Path Time(EST) Width Length --------- ------ ------ MA APR 15, 1925 1700 0k 0inj unk unk F1 HAMPDEN - Brief tornado in Chicopee. One house and five garages destroyed. Damage $50,000. CT APR 26, 1961 1115 0k 0inj unk unk F1 TOLLAND - Two silo roofs destroyed in Ellington. CT APR 21, 2021 1349 0k 0inj 30y 1.0m EF0 LITCHFIELD - Sporadic tree damage in Kent. Also in 2021, we have our first confirmed tor in Mar in New England. VT MAR 26, 2021 1240 0k 2inj 75y 0.7m EF1 ADDISON - Tornado associated with bow echo segment moved through Middlebury. Many trees downed and some structural and vehicle damage.

too warm inside, having trouble sleeping. usually not a problem in mid-april

I planted tomatoes today. It will probably frost here early week, but I'm going to cover and cross my fingers. It's the earliest I've ever planted frost sensitive plants.

Midday Monday will probably be a chilly wake up call.

High of 91 for day and season

Another 0.66" this evening brings the total for today to 1.32", and 5.56" for April. Have had 5.97" since the last day of March.

We're not getting the refreshing cold frontal passages, as used to be summer breaks from heat/humidity for a few days. And with fewer of these frontal refreshers seems also fewer thunderstorms/severe weather episodes punctuating their passage.

Summer like night. Temps near 70, dews over 60, storms popping on radar.

Lots of flashes and thunder with the storm rolling through, but absolutely no wind and all the lightning seemed to be cloud to cloud. Odd. Not much rain either.

Here's the verification

Torrential thunderstorm here...lots of lightning

That's crazy It's almost like US Air Force forecasters Fawbush and Miller, who got hit by a tornado at Tinker AFB in Oklahoma on March 20, 1948. Then, in the next days, they looked at the maps. They predicted a tornado on March 25! Then it happened. And then the US Weather Bureau stopped banning the word "tornado" and started to learn how to forecast them, leading to the first establishment of the office that we now call, the SPC.

I could see just west of the city getting clipped. South and east of there not so much .

Play it

Seems like we could be getting rain chances next week starting wednesday through Saturday .

Some distant lightning visible here from storms in CT. Too bad not a chance in hell any reach me.

With today's 90° high in Central Park, 2026 became only the third year on record with a high of 80° or above in March and a high of 90° or above in April. The only prior years were 1977 and 1990.

A couple of bird fart tors may have dropped southwest of the QC over the past half hour.

I don't "use it to forecast". It's just something I have noticed about the strongest of events. I love how 1983 and 2016 are qualified as BS when in fact they were officially designated as La Niña....that is BS. 1966-1967 sure as hell seems cool-neutral to me........1957 and 1991, sure....I'll grant that. Must be a sample size issue I don't think I used any offensive language in my response to Chuck.....if he feels as though I did, by all means, let me know. At least to me, employing sarcasm is different than using incendiary terms like "idiot".

I'm not offended. I'm proud of my work over the last decade plus...learned a ton. I'm just tired of your loathsome, vile persona acting as though you're superior to everyone and always spewing venom. When in the hell did I run to the mods? I know as a byproduct of your incredibly meager existence you repeatedly made baseless claims of me plagiarizing your work....I called that out, but I don't recall ever getting mods involved. That accusation is every bit as accurate is your idiotic claim about the "smiley" snowfall pattern leading to another shitty east coast winter. Of course, you never acknowledged that. Okay, cool...you found a couple of exceptions ....of course, within this context the sample size is no longer an issue, and those examples can be used to completely debunks my assertion because it's convenient. "The sample size" crap is so fraudulent when you aren't consistent with it. Like I said, put your money where your keyboard is and take the bet, if I'm such an idiot.

Mid 80's still in NYC at this hour, in mid-april, is nuts. Hoping those storms in PA make it here. Had a nice downpour last night.

The entire summer is probably gonna go full-on aggro.

Playoff hockey! Nothing like it

Dale City hit 91 degrees today! You guys are 25 degrees above normal! Normal high is 66, normal low is 45.