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Monday's high will probably bounce all over the place the next few days. Last night it showed 70, this morning, it's 77. Monday A chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 77. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Same...

30 MVY lol

46 this morning.

Down to 38F this am in E CT, glad we haven’t installed yet! I think this weeks weather is going to be a microcosm of the summer, some cool days, some normal days with occasional 90 degree days thrown in; don’t feel like we see any prolonged warmth.

I helped my aunt eradicate some. It takes years and this is the method I used. You can also use triclopyr. The first step cannot be taken until late august/early September due to the timing of moving the chemical to the roots 1. Borrow injector gun from county if one is available. Fill it with *concentrated* glyphosate. Inject each knotweed stem below the first node. You may want some sort of paint spray to mark which ones you’ve sprayed 2. It will die off after step one, but the next year it will come back, much smaller. You can’t inject these stems anymore, so you spray the tops with glyphosate. Again, wait until august/sept. 3. It will all die off again, and then very very few will pop up in the following years. You should continue to spray them individually in august/sept every year until they are completely gone. There will be very little to do as it will be only one or two plants popping up. There is no other way to remove knotweed. You can’t cut it, you can’t mow it, nothing. Please do not compost it or transport it. You have to burn it once the stems have dried. It is ruthless because of its underground rhizome growth which can extend up to 10 ft below the soil surface. Don’t listen to anyone that tells you chemicals aren’t needed because you will waste time and likely spread it in the process of trying other methods. Remember that even a tiny piece can start a new plant. [here is what the injector gun might look like](https://snohomishcountywa.gov/2012/Knotweed-Stem-Injector)

Just got in totally forgot the date lol

DCA: 1.0 103 NYC: 0.5 100 BOS: 0.2 99 ORD: -0.5 97 ATL: 1.3 100 IAH: 2.5 103 DEN: 2.0 97 PHX: 2.0 121 SEA: 1.5 96

Extremely dry air advected in from the northeast this evening. Have had dews as low as 33.

I take great pride in not using pesticides on my property but two years ago I nuked the Knotwood along my property line and after a dormant year it has just exploded in that same zone. I hacked at it and left the remnants in the sun to bake, but it's concerning. I have several invasive species on the edge of the property, but that is by far the worst. See above. Sometimes I feel like not using the chemicals just allows the invasive stuff expand but I have good biodiversity (I think) on my patch of land than neighbors. I'm very excited to see how the firefly population looks this year imby.

Do any of you know how to access any new NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data? I was doing a daily map of 500mb anomalies, from the NOAA PSD web site : https://psl.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/data/composites/printpage.pl Then, in March, I found that the data had stopped. How has it possibly stopped? I don't get it. They do NCEP/NCAR reanalysis every day. But now they don't. Say for example, what if I wanted to do a plot of the global 850mb temperature anomaly on March 19, 2026? It's not there. The 20th-Century reanalysis project doesn't cover 2026. I emailed them. They gave me some brief answers, but not much.

June begins with a high temperature of 80. Dews have crashed into the upper 40s this evening.

How did you find the combined temperature average for Spring, and the ranking? I don't see any seasonal summary on the NWS local offices' climate web sites. All I can see is the climate summary for each month. Also, I can use the NOWDATA to see the average value or each (single) month. I am just curious.

@Stormchaserchuck1 @RodneyS @bkviking @dmillz25 If you would like to participate in the Max temp forecast for the same monthly cities throw a forecast up before Friday 6/5 at 6z. Anyone else who has made a forecast is free to change it up until that time.

I'll update for the June forecast later waiting to see if we have dmillz25 join for the month but so far myself and RJAY will have 1 % deduction for a late forecast.

Finally got a chance to finish the 2025-26 snowfall forecasts. In the orange are the actual season totals, in blue are totals that were forecasted under the actual snowfall that occurred. Everything in white is a forecast that was above actual totals. Red indicates the winner. Error points were done that every 0.1" away from the total was 0.1 of a point. For instance Boston was 62.8" this year, if you had a forecast of 40" that would be 22.8 error points or if you forecasted 80" your error points would be 17.2. NYC and Boston surprised folks the most this year which granted large error points. We will set this up again around November forecast timeframe. I will add Consensus and average for this as well going into the next forecast time (Average will be based on 1991-2020)

For the 100-180W subsurface, Mar-May, 1997 and 2026 are nearly identical Year March/April/May 1997 1.17 / 2.17 / 2.01 2026 1.36 / 2.24 / 2.00 https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/ocean/index/heat_content_index.txt

February was the only month you had missed. So yes you certainly are giving him a run for only having 4 of the 5 months so far.

Sky was covered in chemtrail clouds today for the first time in a long time. I guess that means we'll go wetter in a few weeks to months.

Some areas are dry in El Nino, some areas are wet. Our region is usually wetter.

DonS maintains a big lead. Is my total cumulative with Feb included? If so, my average of months played is giving him a run.

We had quite a bit of moving that took place from last month to this. The contest is still very close so continue to do your best. Here are the annual totals up to the end of May scoring for May can be seen on the previous page.

Told you it was a dry pattern. Imagine if it wasn't El Nino. May is our cloudiest month, total clear sky days last month (23/31 or something) is a giveaway.

It just got very windy out of nowhere. East winds at 35. wtf.