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Thanks. Andy H said: “If this forecast is accurate, we could see the 3 big NH basins (West Pacific, East Pacific, Atlantic) all struggle to produce TCs this year.” You never know as he may be into something. But based on the Euro and other things and the fact that no El Niño is forecasted, this sounds quite a bit overdone for the Atlantic basin. The ATL could imho easily have a NN season as the Euro predicts. But having a quiet season there seems unlikely to me. And I’m saying this being someone near the coast who would love nothing better than the lowered stress of a quiet season. The SE US is overdue for a low stress season. But I don’t forecast based on my desires/wishcast.

Top 5 warmth across the area for the 1st week of May. EWR…5th warmest LGA….5th HPN….5th JFK….5th ISP…..4th BDR….5th PHI…..5th

once again the euro is the furthest sw and the wettest

@WxWatcher007 would not be pleased https://x.com/AndyHazelton/status/1920133584146354231

Low of 52. Need to sneak a mow in somehow today.

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.