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Through the first week Temp Dep: NYC: +4.8 LGA: +5.4 JFK: +5.5 TTN: +6.9 EWR: +6.9

I remain skeptical of calls for a wetter pattern. While I agree that there are things that may point to it, often times we see much of the precipitation off to the north and west or hook around and out of the area entirely. This has been a trend for month after month now. The latest drought monitor is out, which shows modest improvements in the more severe drought areas for NJ, but much of the more pronounced improvements in the northeast are all over central PA as well as central and western NY State.

Nice ... 67 and the sky is allowing a flood of sun in. Nice little sneaky gem day in between the shits.

Unfortunately, the Pacific Jet has been too strong during the winter. So as the gradient weakens further into the spring, the weaker jet isn’t able to act as a kicker. So these closed lows get stuck in place when people are ready for sunny spring weather. But the good news is that the northern edge of the drought areas to the north of I-80 and into CT has improved with the soaking rains there in recent days.

For sure! If Walmart had stores that only sold used goods...

we really need to develop interstellar travel.... it's either that or extinction

ya I like going just to walk around and see what they got on Sundays.. plus you get to meet some interesting people

1784 - A deadly hailstorm in South Carolina hit the town of Winnsborough. The hailstones, measuring as much as nine inches in circumference, killed several persons, and a great number of sheep, lambs and birds. (David Ludlum) 9 inches? that's larger than the current record holder!

Crap! I didn't know retiree ranch was still going on! I haven't been there since like Y2K

1803 - A freak spring storm produced heavy snow from southern Indiana to New England. The storm made sleighing possible in Massachusetts, but also ruined shade trees in Philadelphia. (David Ludlum) wow this must have had some heavy totals in NYC. a few days ago there was another storm like this in 1812.

Going to be interesting to see if it actually clears out before the afternoon now looking at a couple things. Seems like snow always clears out earlier than forecast and rain later

this definitely belongs in the winter, not right now.

I went a couple years back and found pretty cool things.. good luck and hope you guys sell tons.. If not there's always Rietta Ranch in Hubbardston every Sunday but that might be kind of far but tons of people go.

Yep! I don’t mind being there at 6 AM with the scouts because I get first look at all of the vendors merchandise!

HRRR has storms firing around 1pm in western MA

Yea, need to weight the RONI heavily.

Franklin county tag sale?

And here I am trying to go fishing this afternoon

Capitalism can't solve the CC crisis. Our culture cannot seem to process any mere movement or action without sending it through a lens of how to convert that into a profit ... It stands in the way of innovative policies that would contribute to an overall all humanity mitigation in the CC crisis. We have the tech ... It is vastly easier to find Solar companies charging exorbitant greed fulfillment ...because they are not doing it for the virtue of health and vitality of the environment - CC obviously being a part of that. Oh, they market it as such... but that's not the agenda and intentions. They are doing it quite obviously for the myopic goal of money. That's a major failing of the U.S.A. - the failing of ingrained senses of morality and virtuosity. Free market societies don't have to be myopically driven to the acquisition of the wealth. They can certainly be imagined as functioning with those as curbs in the streets of economy. But we're still recovering from about 200 years of Industrialism that was wholly profligate in use of the environment - that's a lot of generations of people and deep enough cultural heritage that just about everyone walking and talking within our societal machinery just doesn't have an intrinsic awareness of how else to function. We just can't seem to do it in this society of ours. We've been over this lament aplenty over the recent years, here and there in threads. In the case of Solar, there cannot be a profit incentive, because well more that half the mass of population cannot be placed in systemic dept so that a small fraction of wealth earners can parachute to opulence, in the name of saving the world. That's not going to work. Yet, that's what we have, or are approaching, as our contribution to renewable/green energy solutions to lowering our carbon footprint. Wrong. China gets it. They may have other evils and iniquities and whatever in the hell people need to describe them as sons-o-bitches, notwithstanding ... But in this area of advancing tech, their solutions and implementation efforts actually look a lot more like a benefit to the planet then anything we've done or are doing. It's never going to happen in the United States, so long as there is a dumbed down populace that cannot know their ass from a hole in the ground, when it comes to making an intelligent, virtuous and moral choice when voting officiates into positions that exert enormous influence on policies critical to all this - when both sides of the equation are profit oriented/'what's in it for me' ... we are at a culture disadvantage. We need a revolution of thinking - what's actually going on is that the crisis needs to be free to fix. That's why China, for all their whatever we want to call it, is superior. Because they are not slowed by a quagmire of profit ambition.

Still out in the long range...but the GFS would seem to suggest the doldrums may be coming to an end. CIPS is also starting to latch onto increased severe potential out beyond 200 hours. The 06z GFS run had decent parameters on SEVERAL days out in the long range.

Wet in the east the next week Fri/Sat and then next Wed.

Records: Highs: EWR: 92 (2000) NYC: 91 (2000) LGA: 89 (2000) JFK: 86 (1964) Lows: EWR: 35 (1947) NYC: 36 (2020) LGA: 37 (1947) JFK: 39 (2020) Historical: 1784 - A deadly hailstorm in South Carolina hit the town of Winnsborough. The hailstones, measuring as much as nine inches in circumference, killed several persons, and a great number of sheep, lambs and birds. (David Ludlum) 1803 - A freak spring storm produced heavy snow from southern Indiana to New England. The storm made sleighing possible in Massachusetts, but also ruined shade trees in Philadelphia. (David Ludlum) 1974: Record Minimum temperature for Washington, DC for the date is 39 °F. 1981 - The Dallas/Fort Worth area experienced its worst hailstorm of record as baseball to grapefruit size hail, accompanied by 100 mph winds, caused nearly 200 million dollars damage. Hail accumulated eight inches deep at Cedar Hill TX. (The Weather Channel) 1987 - Twenty-eight cities in the northwestern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. The record high of 95 degrees at Redding CA was their fifth in a row, and the record high of 102 degrees at Hanover WA was just one degree shy of their record for May. (The National Weather Summary) 1988 - Thunderstorms in the Mississippi Valley spawned a total of 57 tornadoes, including 24 in Wisconsin, and a record 22 tornadoes in one day in Iowa. There were also more than 200 reports of large hail and damaging winds. Baseball size hail was reported at Terre Bonne Mo. At Rockford IL one person was temporarily trapped inside a portable toilet toppled by thunderstorm winds gusting to 80 mph. Fortuntely, not a single person was killed in the "Mother's Day" tornado outbreak. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1989 - Twenty-one cities in the eastern U.S. reported record low temperatures for the date. Lows of 28 degrees at Asheville NC and 31 degrees at Greer SC were records for May. (The National Weather Summary) 1990 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather in northwestern and north central Kansas during the evening and night. Thunderstorms produced hail three inches in diameter at Brewster, and wind gusts to 92 mph south of Wakeeney. Thunderstorms over northwest Iowa deluged the town of Boone with five inches of rain flooding basements and leaving some areas under four feet of water. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

Shower chances increase by late today. We could see a couple of thunderstorms later today and continue tomorrow morning. This should be a pretty healthy regionwide rain event with at least 0.50" to 1.50" of rain for most of us in the north and west Philly burbs. After that, the weather looks great for the weekend. Temperatures will start well below normal tomorrow with highs struggling to escape the 50's in ridge locations, but we will warm back up slightly above normal with highs in the mid 70's for Mother's Day.

Shower chances increase by late today. We could see a couple of thunderstorms later today and continue tomorrow morning. This should be a pretty healthy regionwide rain event with at least 0.50" to 1.50" of rain for most of us in the north and west Philly burbs. After that, the weather looks great for the weekend. Temperatures will start well below normal tomorrow with highs struggling to escape the 50's in ridge locations, but we will warm back up slightly above normal with highs in the mid 70's for Mother's Day.