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Is this a cruel joke?

well this is pretty interesting.. hopefully we can actually get a skillful model https://windbornesystems.com/blog/wm-6-case-study

sun feels dimmer when it’s not diffusing through layers of haze

I needed to hitnit last year when it first germinated…may alert the town. They make a halfhearted effort every summer to nuke it only for it to grow right back before fall.

Good luck but you won't win. Thankfully that's one of the few invasives I don't have. Not that it matters the others are doing just fine.

Invasives, scourge of the earth. Especially around wetlands.

It’s pretty bad here too. There’s a big patch of it down the road along a stream that feeds into the Winni River. Last year a patch sprouted up roadside halfway up my hill and I’m tempted to roundup that shit myself before it starts spreading.

so cant bears.. I saw one running down rt 2 west in Athol a couple years ago.. Then ended up going over the guardrail and into the woods..

But... After the warmup, we don't sustain summer. My forecast for next Monday right now is back down to 70 again.

https://x.com/scweather_wx/status/2061545870441824660?s=46

You could be right. I don’t think I hit 80 here.

Dude it’s out of control along the river banks here.

Saw a coyote cross 3A in Billerica earlier. They can run all of 30mph

This shit is so boring lol. Great for my business. No weather delays is a beautiful thing. I'd give up a few bucks for a couple days of good steady tropical rain. That would make a fun summer rain hike.

Nothing is that hot Thursday or Friday but we'll see.. also Euro.and GFS are 70s Wednesday for most

Damn look at all of that knotweed

Another day, another weird looking dog wandering around. Four times in two weeks I’ve run into them. I think it’s two different bears, twice. This one is younger, probably first year or two without mom.

And just to put this in perspective: NOAA has District 10 — southeast Lower Michigan — at the 23rd warmest January–April average low since 1895. DTW, meanwhile, is only 53rd warmest for the same period (1895-2026). Some of that is obviously tied to station history/site moves, but it illustrates the broader point: NOAA does not build climate averages from one airport thermometer. It uses the broader station network precisely because individual stations have siting, equipment, and continuity issues.

Cooler air will overspread the region tonight. New York City will see lows in the lower 50s in tomorrow morning. Many locations outside the City will experience lows in the 40s. Afterward, temperatures will top out in the lower and middle 70s. A warming trend will commence on Wednesday with highs in the upper 70s. Thursday should see temperatures top out in lower 80s. Friday and Saturday will be very warm days with highs in the upper 80s and lower 90s. Saturday will remain warm before somewhat cooler air arrives to conclude the weekend. The ENSO Region 1+2 anomaly was +2.2°C and the Region 3.4 anomaly was +1.0°C for the week centered around May 27. For the past six weeks, the ENSO Region 1+2 anomaly has averaged +1.80°C and the ENSO Region 3.4 anomaly has averaged +0.90°C. The ongoing El Niño will continue to strengthen through the summer. The SOI was -14.84 yesterday. The preliminary Arctic Oscillation (AO) was +0.407 today.

I think this misses the point. I’m not making a broad ASOS-era vs pre-ASOS-era argument. The issue is the ASOS sensor retrofit — Vaisala HMP155E probes replacing the older DTS-1 / HO-83/1088 sensors across the network. That rollout occurred last summer, so all of those Jan–May years are on the old sensor. The relevant comparison is before vs after the retrofit, not Jan–May rankings going back to the 1800s.

Dry AF here. Watering does next to nothing. Where's Noah? Gonna need that boat (Ark) soon. The Biblical rains are surely coming.

Withdrawal symptoms should subside shortly. Canada is reactivating the smoke machine as we speak.

This does not rebut anything. The claim is not “DTW should be colder than every nearby station.” The claim is that an equipment change can affect continuity in DTW’s own record. NOAA replaced ASOS temp/dew point sensors networkwide with the new Vaisala sensors/shields, and that rollout has been completed. So DTW, DET, YIP, and ARB are not some clean “control group.” They were all part of the retrofit. All you’ve shown is that DTW remains warmer than nearby stations. That’s siting/geography. It says very little about pre/post retrofit homogeneity.

I'm going through Canadian smoke withdrawal.