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By every account standard time wins. We tried permanent DST before and it failed on every level.

this is the kind of weather where nothing will dry from nature alone unless you was under sunlight or a strong breeze.

Hot Memorial Day in Minneapolis under the influence of the ridge, 86 with the dew point creeping into the low 60s. Point had a forecast high of 88 so I’ll take the W.

2.52” in 55 min

Time for a summer thread. @Voyager should start it.

NWS/WPC forecasts 1" of rain for eastern Colorado and New Mexico this week. We'll see how it turns out. Best of luck busting the long-term drought for a lot of areas of the country. As mentioned by somebody, the drought is down to D1 in Larimer County, but that's a limited area. Strange weather pattern with a cutoff low in the West. There seem to be no interesting severe weather outlooks anytime soon. The NWS/CPC latest ENSO bulletin said we are in a neutral phase, with El Nino onset expected soon. The SST anomalies in the Pacific are already positive. The current weather pattern has rain all week in the southern USA. It already has some of the looks of an El Nino. Including storm chasers sitting at home and doing nothing. They say it could be a large El Nino by the time we get to winter.

Over 3” the last hour and a half.

Ridge out West in late June ?

Keep that ridge out West throughout June!

That line finally reached us here in Hickory. It’s all yellows and reds. Heavy stuff!

Now over 1.00” today! Every drop counts at this point. First 1.00”+ rain day since…2/15/26.

Couldn’t have drawn up Memorial Day weather any better, 83 and sunny with absolutely zero wind. Summer is on our doorstep and a fascinating one looms with a lurking potential super El Niño.

I’m getting absolutely smoked rn. 1.25” in half an hour. Absolutely absurd rates.

That's what Steve and I have been talking about recently. This could go from drought to too much real quick.

Yup heavy rain and these storms are just training also.

We've saving all the above normal temps for this winter.

Right? It's probably going to be beautiful next weekend. Always happens when people start looking at those stupid charts and stuff.

I’m not as educated on some of this enso stuff as a lot of you guys are so I didn’t say anything but I was thinking the same as you just said. I feel like 2023 didn’t have that but I could be wrong.

1. 2023 never got close to a +3 as far as I know. 2. Prior to today’s 0Z run, the highest CFSv2 progged peak mean I can recall seeing is this that I saved from 12/11/2023, which had 2 getting to +3 amp and the other 2 to +2 amp with a peak mean of ~+2.45: 3. However, this run turned out to be way off as just 6 days later it had this, a progged peak of only ~+1.45 and actual peak was only in the low +1s from other runs I saved: 4. Today’s 0Z by a good margin had the highest progged mean that I’m aware of any run I’ve seen because otherwise I would have saved them: insane progged peak probably (since can’t see green member peak) ~+3.5!! 5. But the newest run (12Z) came back to Earth quite a bit from the insane +3.5 although it’s still progging a potent peak at +2.3, which is still the 3rd highest progged peak I’ve saved: 6. Keep in mind that the first time I had seen these charts wasn’t til 2023. Thus I have no idea what it peaked at in prior strong El Niños. 7. Keep in mind that while I like to follow this guidance, it is the CFSv2. So, although well worth following, always take with a grain, especially out 2 weeks+! @Stormchaserchuck1 @snowman19

79 was the high today.

Upstate is legitimately getting enough rain to end the drought there

A rose at the New York Botanical Garden:

I just picked up another inch and its still raining putting me over 5.5 in the past 5 days and more rain coming this evening. I think we could get close to 10 inches by the upcoming weekend...could easily turn into too much too quickly.

And I managed to squeeze out another 0.05" this morning for a 6-day total of 3.36" for the event and 4.46" for the month so far. Much warmer today (and the sun popped out this afternoon), getting me to a high of 74 after a low of 57. It's currently 69 with dp 67.