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64 and sunny. garbage stretch incoming but still salvage some of Sunday and Monday

well I guess they're too busy eating sunflower seeds

it would have been an even colder year if that record high waited just one more day!

Great weather continues both today and tomorrow before we turn increasingly chilly and wet for much of the rest of the week. We will be only a few degrees below normal today with highs near 70 degrees....but by Wednesday and Thursday I suspect some of the higher ridge locales across the area may not escape the very chilly 40's to near 50 degrees. This is more than 20 degrees below normal for late May. A nice soaking rain will arrive by Wednesday morning and last into the weekend. The heaviest rain should be Wednesday into Thursday. Model output shows between 1.5" to as much as 3 inches of rain for some spots as any drought concerns have been erased over the last 2 months.

Great weather continues both today and tomorrow before we turn increasingly chilly and wet for much of the rest of the week. We will be only a few degrees below normal today with highs near 70 degrees....but by Wednesday and Thursday I suspect some of the higher ridge locales across the area may not escape the very chilly 40's to near 50 degrees. This is more than 20 degrees below normal for late May. A nice soaking rain will arrive by Wednesday morning and last into the weekend. The heaviest rain should be Wednesday into Thursday. Model output shows between 1.5" to as much as 3 inches of rain for some spots as any drought concerns have been erased over the last 2 months.

Way above 60F in dighton

It was 2nd coldest, only 1903-04 was colder. However, it was the all-time coldest for avg min temp (10.2F). It was a brutally cold winter, and 1875 is the coldest year on record. The unseasonable cold was so impressive all throughout 1875 that not only is it the coldest year on record at Detroit, but it is a full 1.5F COLDER than the 2nd coldest year on record. Though records began in 1870, there is unofficial data dating to the 1830s and 1875 is the coldest. And wouldnt you know, that a big warm spell ended the year, so the record high for Dec 31st is 65F....set in 1875. Just gotta love weather stats!

6.07" at KMJS.

November 1950 had that historic triple phaser, I think it was most powerful triple phaser of them all (stronger than January 1977 or March 1993), anyone have a list of all the triple phasers that have affected the CONUS? (I know the Canadian Maritimes have many more of them and even stronger ones like the one that hit Nova Scotia in January 2004.)

1944-45 was a very cold white winter than suddenly turned into record warmth in March, starting vegetation a month early, then April and May frosts/freezes destroyed the fruit crops, similar to (if not worse than) 2012. Actual snowfall numbers and technicalities aside, here 1942-43, 1944-45 & 1947-48 were very white winters and 1941-42, 1943-44, & 1948-49 were very bare winters.

1947-48 was mostly below normal snowfall in the Lakes. The Northeast and New England fared way better.

I have had 4.8” rain this month. I was curious what MDT had - they’ve had 5.45”.

A frozen, white, cold winter...with below avg snow. With 89 days of 1"+ snowcover, only 1903-04, 1977-78, and 2013-14 had more. So very impressive in that regard. But the peak depth was only 5". A New Years ice storm left a frozen tundra for weeks. The total snowfall was just 28.4". No other winter on record had so much snowcover with so little snowfall. Ive seen some cool pics of the Dec 26, 1947 storm at NYC.

The 1940s had some impressive winters. 1944-1945 had very impressive snow cover in the lower Great Lakes region, and 1947-48 was very snowy in the northeast, especially around Worcester. I think they had like 3 feet of snow on the ground in February in Worcester, Massachusetts and that's from when observations were taken in town and not at the more upland airport location. 1948-49 & 1949-50 were low snow, but very cold and snowy in parts of the northern Plains and northwest. I would point out, however, that 1950 was the coldest year overall for the U.S. since 1929, and 1951 was even colder, per NCEI. 1950-51 was very snowy in the Ohio Valley and Appalachians.

I read a paper about this ... This is the cold meander phenomenon that's tied to CC - they manifest ( or can...) as these unusual late and early shoulder season cold excursions, even capable of snowing in Octobers and Mays. We've known - or suspected - this frequency was increasing and have discussed it in here many times. Here we are. This is one of them. We're no where near snow at lower elevations this particular rendition, but in principle, the pattern is represented.

wild was 1874-75 your coldest on record? April 1875 was historically cold and snowy here, like January in April lol.

How did you do in 1947-48, it was NYC's snowiest winter on record and had the longest duration snowcover until 1995-96 and 2010-11 came along.

I mean I’m watching for flakes, ha. I’d take a couple degrees cooler through the column. The old Will adage that once below 45F, start rooting for 32F.

Lows;EWR: 39 (2002)NYC: 38 (1976)LGA: 43 (1976)JFK: 42 (2002) Tony did you notice this too? It can't be a coincidence, obviously the same pattern repeated almost exactly in 1976 and 2002. Record heat on the same dates in April followed by record cold on the same date in May !! Obviously 2002 had a much hotter summer, but April and May were clones of each other in 1976 and 2002 !!

Records:Highs:EWR: 98 (1962)NYC: 99 (1962)LGA: 96 (2017)JFK: 92 (2017)Lows;EWR: 39 (2002)NYC: 38 (1976)LGA: 43 (1976)JFK: 42 (2002) The extremes here are absolutely wild from nearly 100 to the 30s. What's ironic about 2002 is we had a historic heatwave (matching 1976) in April and then this historic cold and then a hot summer right after this. Looks like 1976 and 2002 were alike in the historic cold after historic heat but the summers were completely different!

Loving the autumn-like weather this coming week!

1962: A heat wave gripped the East Coast with high temperatures reaching 99° at New York City, 98° at Baltimore, MD and 96° at Philadelphia, PA (all either broke or tied records for the month of May.). Other daily records included: Greenville-Spartanburg, SC: 99°, Newark, NJ: 98°, Concord, NH: 97°, Allentown, PA: 97°, Richmond, VA: 97°, Athens, GA: 97°, Columbus, GA: 97°, Philadelphia, PA: 96°, Atlantic City, NJ: 96°, Roanoke, VA: 96°, LaGuardia, NY: 95°, Harrisburg, PA: 95°, Wilmington, DE: 95°, Charlotte, NC: 95°, Raleigh, NC: 95°, Nashville, TN: 95°, Hartford, CT: 94°, Lynchburg, VA: 93 °F. so close to getting our earliest 100 degree reading in May 1962!

I have looked into some of the eastern winters of the 1940s to compare to the meek ones we had here, and Id have to say its probably the most different of any decade. Those winters sucked here. But I think a lot of it was due to dry weather and bad luck. Though there were some mild winters in the 1940s, the decade was easily colder than either the 1930s or the 1950s. But it sucked for snow. It is by far Detroits least snowiest decade on record (avg 28.7"). We had 3 major ice storms but no memorable snowstorms. In terms of the WWII years, 1942-43 was the best winter of the decade. 1944-45 was cold and white but very dry. 1941-42 and 1943-44 were very bare winters overall.