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Wind just flipped to light south breeze in Brightwaters. Temp down 2, 80 might have been our peak high for the day

Amazing for A/C… more lackluster for heat but enough to take chill out in late spring and early fall before you want real heat. The A/C has been amazing from our minisplits. Dead quiet, cold rapidly, energy efficient with low electric bills. Given how recent summers go with dews, it was worth the $10K for a couple heads here. We just close off a couple rooms and let those bake lol.

Early data in for March. Another warm one. 5 & 10 yr trend charts shown respectively.

Great...."now batting for East Coast Winter Enthusiasts....Dave....Kingman".

ugh can see the nasty stratus bank out of my window. borrowed time

We missed a massive thunderstorm to our south last night. I barely got much either but right below us looked like some great thunderstorms.

62 dew point already. Yuck

Whats up with the clouds today

The STJ near the Baja is forecast to become more active with the developing El Niño. So it’s looking like more rainfall chances in late April. But the individual storm details will probably have to wait.

Yeah seems like late next week pattern could turn wetter.

About same rain for me. Don’t expect anything so I’ll take it.

Well, it is still April in the Northland. Bouts of chilly wx still in the pipeline.

Yeah, I can see the door coming south on TDWR now. 76 currently.

Eeked out about 0.10" of rain yesterday from the heavy drizzle, and shwrs/stms that developed over the area. Was nice to have stms for a change. Geese have been trickling back into the area as well as flocks of tweety birds. No robin sightings yet, but that'll come soon.

Had mini-splits installed in my last house, was $10k for two units and that was 2009. They were OK

Yea. Should be real interesting to see what happens once this massive DWKW surfaces in the eastern PAC next month

Yeah, we have been in an all or nothing snowfall pattern for 30 years now around NYC Metro. Nearly all seasons have been under 18” or over 30” with not many in the mid range. So it’s a bit like a power hitter that strikes out quite a bit between homers. The background warming loads the dice for more strikeouts over time. But the record SST warmth out near the Gulf Stream results in some very long homeruns like we saw back in late February when the STJ activates with good blocking. The ultimate question each season is how many duds will we have to endure before another gem of a season like 2025-2026?

My wife wants us to get those. I've been hesitating...

OH f yeah. I lived in Rockport ( cold north Atlantic hiny cockport ) for year back in the day. You pretty much just assume there is no other reality but the stench of kelp and the distant wine of gull fly-bys, when there isn't the ghostly howl of hypothermic wind gust through telegraph lines. There's a couple of coffee breaks where something vaguely similar to continental summer merriment shows up from late June to early August ...along with droves of tourism... otherwise, that's a different climate driven salt culture out there, period. Ipswitch? mm... perhaps a hybrid of that but enough genetics to still look just as ugly. I guess tho - in fairness - once your stuck out there and accept it ? It kinda does have a charm. Then aspects like ocean fury and tidal challenges/Nor'easters can be fun.

Yeah there ain’t no door coming west . This is deep heat until Friday . Even Ayer

Well I mean in a relative sense. Better there vs Ipswich lol.

About 0.10" rain last night. Little too far south. High of 82. 68 now.

My phone woke me at 2am with the tornado warning alert. I ended up being up 2 hours. The storm was wicked but no tornado here. Possible one 3 miles north. Got 0.82" rain. Looks like quite a bit of damage noted in ann arbor, Dearborn, lincoln park. The constant lightning illuminated the black cloud overhead