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Records: Highs: EWR: 98 (2022) NYC: 96 (1939) LGA: 96 (1987) JFK: 94 (2022) Lows: EWR: 44 (1938) NYC: 46 (1938) LGA: 50 (2021) JFK: 48 (2023/2021) Historical: 1830: Shelbyville, Tennessee was turned into "a heap of ruins" as a tornado moved east through the center of the town. This tornado destroyed 15 homes and 38 businesses along with churches and other public buildings. Losses were estimated to be as high as $100,000. A book was said to be carried seven miles away. 1858: A tornado moved across Warren County and devastated the town of Ellison, IL about 14 miles southwest of Monmouth. Only 3 cabins were left standing. 19 people were killed, and 60 injured, along the tornado's 5 mile long track. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1889 - The Johnstown disaster occurred, the worst flood tragedy in U.S. history. Heavy rains collapsed the South Fork Dam sending a thirty foot wall of water rushing down the already flooded Conemaugh Valley. The wall of water, traveling as fast as twenty-two feet per second, swept away all structures, objects and people. 2100 persons perished in the flood. (David Ludlum) 1927: Springtime of 1927 saw 18.64 inches of rain fall in the Peoria, IL area. This established their wettest Meteorological Spring (March, April, May period) on record. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1934: Early season heat gripped central Illinois. Springfield reported its earliest triple-digit high temperature on record, with a temperature of 101°. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1941 - Thunderstorms deluged Burlington KS with 12.59 inches of rain to establish a 24 hour rainfall record for the state. (The Weather Channel) 1954: Sioux Falls, SD recorded their latest snowfall on this date when a half inch was reported. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1961 : Boston, MA suburbs experience a late freeze. (Ref. NOAA Boston Weather Events) 1983: Albany, NY experienced its wettest spring season in 109 years of records with 19.54 inches while Philadelphia, PA also had their wettest spring with 21.85 inches of precipitation. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1985 - Severe thuunderstorms spawned forty-one tornadoes across the Lower Great Lakes Region and southeastern Ontario which killed 74 persons. (Storm Data) 1987 - Thunderstorms in New England produced wind gusts up to 90 mph at Worcester, MA, and Northboro, MA, and hail an inch and a half in diameter at Williston, VT. Unseasonably hot weather prevailed in the northeastern U.S. The afternoon high of 94 degrees at Portland, ME, was a record for the month of May. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary) 1988 - Hot and humid weather prevailed in the eastern U.S. Thirteen cities reported record high temperatures for the date. Cape Hatteras, NC, reported their first ninety degree day in May in 115 years of records. "Dust buster" thunderstorms in northwest Texas drenched Amarillo with more than three inches of rain. (The National Weather Summary) 1989 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather and torrential rains in northern Indiana, northern Ohio and southern Lower Michigan. Saint John IND was drenched with four inches of rain in two hours, and Woodland MI was deluged with two inches in twenty minutes. Pittsburgh PA reported a record 6.55 inches of rain for the month of May, with measurable rain reported on twenty-five days during the month. (The National Weather Summary) 1990 - Afternoon and evening thunderstorms developing along a warm front produced severe weather from northwest Texas to southeastern Louisiana. The thunderstorms spawned sixteen tornadoes, including thirteen in northwest Texas. One tornado hit the town of Spearman, TX, causing more than a million dollars damage, and seven other tornadoes were reported within twenty-five miles of Spearman. Thunderstorms over northwest Texas also produced baseball size hail at Monahans, and wind gusts to 80 mph at Paducah. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1991: May record seven consecutive 90°+ days-- DC May's record high temperature 99°, low 78° are both all time highs for May. Norfolk, VA hit 100° setting a new all-time record high for the month of May and Philadelphia, PA hit 97° tying their May record high set the previous day. This was the warmest May on record in Washington, D.C. The city also observed a record 11 days of 90-degree heat. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1992: This May was the driest on record for Chicago, IL and Rockford, IL. Only 0.30 inches of rain fell at Chicago and Rockford had a paltry 0.48 inches. The total rainfall at El Paso, TX of this past month was 4.22 inches, making this the wettest May ever for the city. The normal rainfall for May is only 0.24 inches, which means that this month's rainfall total was 1,758% of normal. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1995: The U.S. set a new monthly tornado record in May, 1995 with 408 twisters reported. The record would be surpassed in the busy month of May 2003, when over 500 twisters were reported. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1997: Mount Washington, NH recorded 95.8 inches of snow for the month which exceeded the previous May snowfall record by 43.6 inches. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1997: Mount Washington, NH recorded 95.8 inches of snow for the month which exceeded the previous May snowfall record by 43.6 inches. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 2001: Death Valley National Park, CA recorded a high temperature of 118°, setting a daily record. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 2003: The average maximum temperature for May had a -7.32°F departure and was the coldest May on my 23-years of records. Baltimore BWI said May 2003 was the third coldest in the last 130 years! Annandale Weather Center listed May as the cloudiest May on record and the second cloudiest month in the last 23-years. Only November 1986 was cloudier and not by much. May also had 23 days with measurable precipitation the most ever recorded for any month. The old record was only 19 day in June of 1998. (Ref. Annandale Hills Weather Center) 2011: The Richmond area had its warmest spring and the eighth-warmest May on record. Figures released by the National Weather Service in Wakefield on Friday show the average temperature from March through May was 62.4 degrees. That breaks the mark of 61.5 degrees set for the three months in 2010. (Ref. Ref. NBC 12 News, Weather & NWS) (Ref. NWS & West Henrico Co. - Glen Allen Center) 2013: The 2nd of the top 10 weather events for 2013 was EL Reno, Oklahoma tornado of May 31, 2013. Part of the multi-day storm outbreak caused $2 billion in damage. The EF3 that traveled through the western suburbs of Oklahoma City was the largest tornado ever observed with a width of 2.6 miles. It took eight lives including four tornado chasers.

WB 0Z EPS for 2nd week of June. Summer returns with above normal temps. Precipitation normal to slightly above.

Down to 40 here now 63 / 42. A gorgeous day ahead mid 70s to low 80s as the ULL out to see and overall yesterday wasnt half bad. Near normal / dry week balanced by a cooler Mon/Tue and warm to potentially sneaky heat Thu - Fri. Overall normal to above once to the 4th and beyond. Core of the highest departures remain to the north and west with flow flattening a bit - more ridging / sustained warmth second week of June.

6/1/09 we had legit frost here. FIT was 1F cooler than this morn. So maybe then?

WB 6Z EURO. Quiet dry work week ahead with heat slowly building back in with Friday in the low 90s.

36.3 here this morning. Almost all of my plants are in the ground and they're not happy but seem to have survived. Another couple degrees probably would have been disastrous in the gardens

40.2 in Muttontown & 43.0 in Syosset this morning.

I’m seeing 46.9 inter hour. .

Screw you. Got a Steiner for rain yesterday and minimal sun, so hoping today turns out better. Has started off great.

Steiner here. Only about .15” of rain.

Yeah the vis loop this morning has me triggered. Hopefully we can bring down the rest of SNE with us.

JFK Airport reached 48° this morning. That tied the daily record set in 1966 and tied in 1977 and 2023.

Well... so much for SUNday

@OceanStWx Found an error in the MHT climo and record history. 36° is listed as the min for 7/22/1937. It should be 50°. I went and found the original form and the min for the date was crossed out and 36 was put in the range column alongside the 86 max. But the min for the month clearly has 50° listed on the 14th and 22nd. So that 36° is obviously the range and not meant to be the min.

Yikes! That's nuts! Had another half inch yesterday afternoon, with storms popping up already this morning. Wish everyone else could cash in.

41.2 at 6:30

The Nina-like WPAC warm pool forcing in DJF 2015-2016 and 2023-2024 did enhance the warmth in the Northeast those winters above the typical super El Niño winters like 1997-1998 and 1982-1983. While the PDO was positive in 2015-2016, we got the record MJO 5 in December adding to the historic +13 warmth. 2023-2024 had both a -PDO and strong MJO 4-7 activity. So both winters featured record Niña-like MJO activity for super El Niños. But even without the Niña influence in 1997-1998, that winter was still very warm. Plus the winters have warmed since 1997-1998. So perhaps that winter would be just as warm today as 2015-2016 and 2023-2024 was even without the La Niña influence. Since the stronger Southeast trough in 1997-1998 was all Pacific air with the record east based super El Niño. Top 15 warmest winters in NYC Time Series Summary for NY CITY CENTRAL PARK, NY Click column heading to sort ascending, click again to sort descending. 1 2001-2002 41.5 0 2 2022-2023 41.0 0 2015-2016 41.0 Super El Niño Nina Influence 3 2023-2024 40.6 Super El Niño Nina influence 4 2011-2012 40.5 0 5 1931-1932 40.1 0 6 1997-1998 39.6 Super El Niño No Niña influence 7 2016-2017 39.3 0 8 2019-2020 39.2 0 9 1990-1991 39.1 0 10 1998-1999 38.6 0 11 1948-1949 38.5 0 12 1889-1890 38.4 0 13 1952-1953 38.1 0 14 1982-1983 37.9 Super El Niño No Niña influence - 1936-1937 37.9 0 15 1996-1997 37.8 0 - 1932-1933 37.8 0

That 34° at MHT will go down as a record and tied for the coldest for so late in the season. Their threaded climate history is a bit of a disjointed mess though.

low of 46

Low of 39! Wow!

What a way to end May

Car top frost overnight. Might be the latest I've personally seen that

Thats the million dollar question. I hope were done with this cool, sometimes cold, cloudy windy weather till November. But I think we need further guidance on this matter.

Do you mean yesterday’s storm? It was a good event. Definitely thread worthy.

First time since 1988 here around HVN that the strongest May wind gusts occurred so late in the month. So an unusually strong late May storm system. Very impressive omega block for this time of year.