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8 years ago. Wild day for SW CT. Thankfully I outran it and missed driving through it coming home.

Daily RONI is still below Weak Nino threshold of +0.5? Only 1991 had a May RONI +0.5 to become a Super Nino, all the others were averaging ~+0.8 by now.

Only issue is that the RONI ls lagging the ONI by more this go-around, even though it is like to reach or exceed that absolute value of 1982.

34 at 6:30. Frost and 30 at Headwaters.

For my location, both models are showing more snow than I care to see, and it has been consistent enough that I am starting to pay attention. I have a lot of trees and my cottonwoods are leafed out now. Rain would be fantastic…

The word drought and New England should never be used in the same sentence.

And then in a few months when its 90 degrees at 10am we will be complaining for this type of weather

Right but relative to the normal temps it was more extreme. Naturally, dewpoints are going to increase as we approach June.

Jones Beach water temp is still 52-53. That’ll put a hard stop on any temp climb on the south shore with that kind of S wind. Probably a full on Ambrose Jet day or two thrown in. Even here might be hard to get much above 80.

Dep through May 14 first two weeks of the month, should erase this in a weeks time and see + dep by the 21 Almost to the halfway point NYC: -2.2 LGA: -2.1 JFK: -1.1 EWR: -0.9

Depending on thunderstorms in the summer to make up the drought is a crap shoot. I fear this gets much worse.

Clouds and wind, cool cool

Records: Highs: EWR: 92 (2018) NYC: 90 (1900) LGA: 92 (2018) JFK: 82 (2007) Lows: EWR: 40 (1939) NYC: 42 (1947) LGA: 43 (1947) JFK: 44 (1966) Historical: 1834 - The Northern Atlantic Coast States were in the midst of their greatest May snowstorm of record. The hills around Newbury, VT, were covered with two to three feet of snow. (David Ludlum) 1834: A wintry period from the Great Lakes to parts of New England. 6 inch snow in Erie, PA (14th); 12 inches in Rutland, VT, by p.m. today; Newbury, VT received 2 feet (sleighs on roads on 16th), while Haverhill, NH, vicinity had 2 feet in valleys and 3 feet on hills. 1896: A tornado with F5 intensity struck Sherman, TX killing 73 people; 60 of them in downtown. Tornado victims were found as far as 400 yards away from their original location. A trunk lid was carried 35 miles by the twister. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1949: A violent F4 tornado moved through Amarillo, TX. The tornado tracked through the Amarillo Airport and damaged or destroyed 45 aircraft. Seven people were killed and 82 were injured. Damage was set at $4.8 million dollars. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1951: On this date through the 24th, Hurricane Able does loop-the-loop north of the Bahamas and reaches Category 3 strength off Cape Hatteras, NC. 1962: Record maximum temperature for Washington, DC for the date 94 °F. (Ref. Washington Weather Records - KDCA) 1966: The NIMBUS II satellite was launched on this date. NIMBUS I had malfunctioned and was never operational. The arrival on the scene of the NIMBUS satellites eliminated the threat of tropical cyclones striking without warning ever again. Polar orbiting satellites, the NIMBUS series gave meteorologists worldwide coverage at least once per day. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1968 - A tornado touched down southwest of Anchorage, AK. It was the second of just three tornadoes reported in Alaska since 1950. (The Weather Channel) 1972 - The worst ice jam flooding of memory for long-time residents took place along the Kuskokwim River and Yukon River in Alaska. It was the first time since 1890 that the two rivers "flowed as one". The towns of Oscarville and Napaskiak were completely inundated. (15th-31st) (The Weather Channel) 1985: Marion, NC received 6 inches of rain in just one hour. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1987 - Unseasonably warm weather returned to the north central U.S. Seven cities reported record high temperatures for the date, including Janestown, ND, with a reading of 96 degrees. Thunderstorms in Utah produced five inches of rain south of Bicknell. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1988 - Thunderstorms in Oklahoma produced wind gusts to 80 mph in Oklahoma County, and baseball size hail at Pawnee. Hail piled up to a depth of 18 inches south of Pawnee. Hail damage in Oklahoma was estimated at close to 25 million dollars. Thunderstorms in the Upper Midwest produced golf ball size hail around Cleveland, OH, and wind gusts to 83 mph at Angola, IN. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary) 1989 - Thunderstorms developing along and north of a stationary front produced severe weather in the south central U.S. Thunderstorms spawned eleven tornadoes, and there were 145 reports of large hail and damaging winds. Softball size hail caused 2.1 million dollars damage at Sherman, TX. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1990 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather from the Central Plains Region and Oklahoma to Indiana and western Kentucky. Thunderstorms spawned fifteen tornadoes, including seven in Oklahoma, and there were 165 reports of large hail or damaging winds. A tornado killed one person, injured a dozen others, and caused four million dollars damage at Stillwater, OK. Another tornado injured eight persons at Foyil, OK. Thunderstorms in Oklahoma also produced wind gusts to 92 mph at Oologah Lake, and softball size hail at Canton and north of Oakwood. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1991: A series of slow moving thunderstorms moved over Bennett County in South Dakota. Not only did 5 to 6 inches of rain fall in the Martin and Tuthill area, but marble to golf ball size hail fell for an extended period of time. So much hail fell that it actually piled into drifts as high as 6 feet. A flash flood threatened 16 children and 3 adults on a field trip in Little Grand Canyon, in southern Illinois' Shawnee National Forest. While trying to escape the rising waters, a teacher and three children fell into a creek and were swept downstream about a mile. They were later rescued by helicopter. At least five tornadoes struck the western and northwestern parts of Texas. The strongest tornado was sighted near Laverne, which was rated as an F3. The tornado was 800 to 900 yards wide, and its path was 11.5 miles long. Three injuries resulted in the Laverne area. This storm also produced hail the size of grapefruits. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1995: About 5 miles north of Charleston and Ingalls, KS strong thunderstorm winds gusting to over 100 mph snapped off 150 power poles and 40 pivot sprinklers were damaged or destroyed, along with trees and fences. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

Haha, it might be because people are still below the 40th percentile for ytd rainfall. Honestly unless we get area wide coverage of 25" from now till end of August I'd expect this map will be there the entire summer. Add in the fact that many have not had an above normal season in 3-4 years I'd be more worried if the map showed nothing. Sent from my SM-S731U using Tapatalk

What a gorgeous stretch it was in ITH for a change.

I live on a small hill, and usually can see evidence of rain runoff down to the roadside ditch when we get something like last night's 2.5. It was heartening that I didn't see too much of that this time. A "good" rain.

44.8 here this morning, felt incredible walking out the door

Yeah, it's probably just more noticeable now since one can now easily see it on phone radar apps, and before you'd never know that Sebago to Augusta was being hammered and you'd miss out.

Lows in this area were in the mid 50s, significantly below the low 60s normal. Dewpoints are still way down in the low 40s.

56 / 44 coolest of the next 10 or longer as the ull cutoff spins through with breaks of sun and isolated showers capped in the 60s. Ramp up and warm up Sat 80s - sun - wed 80s / 90s in areas - Peak heat is Tue and maybe Wed pending on the timing of the front with clouds. Next shot at rain is showers / storms from the front wed with potental >0.5 of rain. Ridge remains in the east and outside a ULL / custoff pegged around the Memorial day weekend (which could be split nice/vs not so nice ) TBD track, it looks overall warm - hot at times through then and beyond.

Let us be done with this cool nonsense. 56 degrees at 8:30.

Barry the goat

Had a low of 34 this morning. Feels like October

This seems a little off as in my local where I picked up .88 of rain on Wednesday evening. The colors on the map show I only got .25-.50 US National Weather Service Middle Atlantic River Forecast Center · Follow · The latest drought monitor was released this morning and it's not good news for the areas already in drought. Although the extent has not changed, the severity of the existing drought increased. Over the past 24 hours, up to an inch of rain fell, but the heaviest amounts were mostly in areas unaffected by drought. The next 72 hours will not bring any relief as less than 0.25 inches, and increasing temperatures, are expected

Low of 49. Nice one today. My wife wanted me to turn on the heat the last two mornings. I’ve never scoffed at her so hard ha.