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I also think we need to recover the polymath instinct. Historically, a lot of important thinkers crossed boundaries between business, politics, science, history, law, and the arts. We’ve moved toward extreme specialization, which has benefits, but also creates blind spots. AI makes it possible for more people to responsibly cross those boundaries again — not by replacing expertise, but by helping them read, calculate, compare, and test assumptions across fields. That’s the spirit of the piece: not “I’m the final authority,” but “let’s make the assumptions visible enough that more people can examine them.”

I think I follow. I agree that access to more data does not automatically produce better analysis — people and institutions can still overread, cherry-pick, or filter evidence through assumptions. But that is exactly why I wanted to start with a narrow, checkable example. I’m not claiming one CET reanalysis settles the whole medieval climate debate. I’m saying Lamb’s specific annual estimate is often treated with more authority than it deserves, and when you test the seasonal assumptions behind it, the result changes substantially. So the point is not “everyone with data is right.” It is almost the opposite: even influential reconstructions should be broken down, tested, and made transparent enough that non-specialists can see where the assumptions enter.

LOL ... yeah, sorry... the other aspect triggered me .. But that doesn't have much analysis. It's a brief homage or outright complaint about taking data in quadrature and perhaps over applying its significance? heh, more in line of what I was talking about, tho. So I launched... Much of my rhetoric and diatribe comes down to a simple sort of reflection. Vast amounts of data and access to information doesn't make someone or an institution necessarily very smart. We live in an era where said vastness is already incomprehensible for lacking the the ability in the audience. And the "institutions" we are creating out of it are not very intelligent, most probably because of that. ( as an aside, a glaring example of one in a few ways in which human innovation has outpaced evolutionary built-in checks and balances; I once mused long ago but still find myself coming back this upon occasions like this conversation - the greatest natural disaster to have ever befallen this planetary history might actually turn out to be the rise of human innovation) I mean I understand the poster's sentiment to have given a broader spectrum of it all upfront, and not after it has passed through a narrow analysis ... or possible bias lens..etc... However, I don't know if that helps. Because there's a bigger problem with humanity whence exposure/consumption of waves of assumptive crushing new information isn't being properly handled. There are evidences abounding as to the ramifications in doing so.

Pattern would be shit with a day here or there of excellent weather but Mt snow in NNE was mentioned and laughed at. We need to break up the persistence trough.

RSMT2 COOP Site, I somehow managed M2.02" for April.

What did you think of the analysis?

I'll do an expanded analysis on Substack at some point. Here's GLERL satellite data for 1995-2025 for all of the lakes.

I wish it was...can we get 3 months of 80s, mostly sunny, and afternoon storms 3 days a week, please? I'm ready for summer.

Played a decent 9 last night. Shot a 40. I was on the 9th green in two but was like 40'-50' away on the wrong tier, putting up a steep slope. Blew my first put 10' past and lipped out the par putt to miss shooting a 39. I hit the ball decently and putted ok with only the one 3 putt. It's a decent start to the season for me.

Well so much for lasting until Fall I’ve been wanting to hold off longer, but my girlfriend had been looking at shelters and came across Izzy and fell in love with her. She was found around a gas company by some employees and had a leg injury. They had paid for the surgery and brought her to the shelter. we went to go meet her last night. Unfortunately, she came down with a cold and because she is being treated we can’t legally take her across state lines. So hopefully we will be able to bring her home Tuesday or the following Tuesday.

Sunday PM to Monday AM is trending to be much wetter than tomorrow's system. We shall see.

I'll be down in OC MD from May 26th - 30th for a conference. I realllly hope the weather cooperates this year. Seems like every year it's 43 degrees, fog, and a stiff wind off the ocean.

OK thanks - that's the raw data at least. Don't want to provide a link to a larger more readable version of your analysis?

That's opening a Pandora's box of "sociotechnological" ramifications ... holy shit! In a simplified ... hugely, hugely reductive idealistic sense... yeah, data that effects/affects everyone gets to be seen by everyone, with expediency, upon its very emergence - the only restrained factor being the communication time it takes to get the information to 8+ billion eyes and ears... Yay! What happens when you subject the population background density, one understandably characterized by limited or narrowed intelligence scope just for shear lack of previous exposure and/or education, certainly lacking any wisdom thru common experience, to the vastness of data outside their perspective frame and natively derived belief systems? Let's spell it out. F E A R The rest is academic. Fear and histrionic triggers 'compulsion' of reactionary response at worse. At best, hasty judgement. Look around us... Oh, I dunno... maybe paranoia and bad judgement..etc might say drive a society into voting into a dark triad personality convicted felon ruler, into the most powerful post known to modern humanity - and I'm not using this to make a political statement with this.. it's just a fact of circumstance we are all in - find a fucking cause for that predicament. People are in the process of mass-hysteria proving that aliens are walking among us based on some sort of "plausible" explanation of the last 5 to 7 years of Pentagonia released informatica on UAP's ...must just be a neuro-linguiestic preparatory course work to some big reveal that doesn't have a prayer at being either real...or if so, is not likely to be very big. People are lusting for some sort of overarching explanation for all this information they are too challenged to effectively categorize in any objective spectrum. Even if 90% of humanity had IQs of 120+ and en masse PHD's... the shear amount of incoming stimulus and information far, far exceeds brain capacitance at this point in evolution. It's probably why the savior thinkers among the various walks of society are beginning to cave themselves ... We can digress from here a lot of ways.... but if all this going to end well? It will be on the other side of (probably) narrowly avoided end scenario.

I’m in sandbar mode too. This is like November but with twice the daylight length. Nothing is going to accumulate but just spitting snow showers on May 8th, with a backdrop of sticks. Not a lot of value here, ha.

https://www.weather.gov/buf/LakeTemp

Yeah, this is getting ridiculous. If it's gonna be cold and rainy let's at least bring the sandbags out.

Can you be more specific? There's a ton of stuff on their site, and I'm not finding that. https://www.weather.gov/buf/ There's a Rivers and Lakes page, but generally that just seems to have gauge data for water levels and flows - not seeing anything with regards to temperatures, including those charts.

0.90” in the past month. Not great.

Snowing at Stowe and 57 here. A few months ago, I may have been jealous, but I’m in Sandbar mode now.

I’ve definitely seen some crazy rain snow lines near the Cape Ala ‘10–‘11….But usually if Southeast Mass does well the upper cape should be good too.

NWS Buffalo.

Yes, I noticed lots of damage to many plants around my property and when taking the dogs for a walk around the neighborhood. My one Magnolia (about 25' tall) took the biggest hit.

Reflective SW radiation with cold ass air.

Next winter is toast if this plays out like they say. Awful