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El Nino is starting up.

Beautiful morning but the clouds have found their way here.

May finishes with a -13.22 SOI Since Apr 2016: Top -SOI Months (out of 121 Total months): 1. Feb 24: -15.55 2. May 23: -15.26 3. Feb 19: -14.62 4. Sept 23: -13.87 5. May 26: -13.22 6. Sept 19: -12.72 April-May finishes with a -23.10 SOI Since Apr 2016: Top -SOI 2-Months: 1. Aug-Sept 24: -24.72 2. Apr-May 26: -23.10 3. Feb-Mar 19: -21.10 All others above -20

Sounds like a CoastalWx attitude!

More lightning north of Sherbrooke this afternoon than I’ll see all summer

Virga plume ahead of the upper low w/ embedded convective elements. A little odd for an upper low dropping from the N. Nice spiral in Quebec w/ decent tstms. Maybe Scott can get some rumblers in Ossipee!?!

You're the one who asked for it.

It worked

Yup. Obs thread…

Managed a greatfirst half of Sunday. After a 38* start it was nice and sunny until 1:00. overcast and 59* now. Maybe we can manage a good weekend next week.

52° with RW+ at 230pm. What a way to run the last weekend in May.

Looking at KBED records that start in 1890 I got from a local wx company I worked for in the late 1980s and early 90s, and then using my own records and another's from Woburn (4 mi ENE), only 3 times has measurable snow occurred in May - 1917, 1977, and 2002. 6 other times a trace. 1917 0.3", 1977 9.5", and 2002 0.2" Weren't there flakes in the air in SNE, including ern MA, in early May 2020? This was after I moved to the DC area.

I think partially that and the bigger issue is all they rely on is the HREF. Euro had 45-50 for CT for days

HRRR clearly showed at least ern CT was going to have good wind. NBM issue? NBM tends to smooth things out a lot, so it may not handle the more wild/high-end/atypical events?

That's what I thought. This late in the season, it is typically either rain or snow. Not that sleet doesn't occur, but typically not in significant amounts or for an extended period. Temps aloft steadily cooled in NNE well as the upper level low moved in, so there should have been no funny warm layers, esp. in a convectively unstable column. Any/all mix should have gone to straight snow in the mountains.

Raining in Greenfield. At least it started while I was up on a ladder outside.

That was a pretty good 5 minute deluge

CT is the slightly further south version of the western 2/3 of MA. I think forecasters can easily handle it.

Pretty good wind with this line of showers/downpours

Improper wording on my part. It should say, "most of the time" not "always." If you go back months, you'll see the bias I am talking about. Look at his posts about Europe heat in the last few weeks. Why would an OCM that should be focusing on wx local to their DMA or at least the U.S. talk about hot wx/heat domes in Europe? Could it be that there was no sig heat in the U.S. at the same time, so one has to go find it elsewhere on the globe b/c that the "in" thing to hype b/c of global warming? What gets the most clicks/likes and promotes gloom and doom? These tendencies and biases are not hard to spot. All I am saying as a scientist, one need to avoid bias, hype, and report on things w/ balance and reason. When you are a public figure to millions, a responsibility comes w/ that. But you see far too many fall into hype and over-the-top/cheesy statements and graphics just to grab attention and proper perspective, reason, and facts be damned.

Glorious last day of May. Lunch on the deck.

Ending the month with a bang. Getting some sprinkles from time to time. Will finish May with 1.77".

Not a good look for Baltimore when a fan throws something from the stands and injures an opposing player. edit: It turns out that it was a freak misunderstanding. A 10 yo kid thought he was playing catch with Sanchez and accidentally hit him. Talk about bad luck!