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Is it bad that I am already sipping on a bourbon?

It is a bit yes. I mean it could happen, but heavy snows in the deep south?? Even northern Florida? that's just ridiculous. Even more so in a strong El-Nino winter. Sure it will be cooler than normal and generally wet there, but not white.

While the warmth in the Northeast during super El Niño winters has been a main feature for us, the snowfall has been more variable. We would need SPV activity at least somewhat like 2015-2016 to at least make the snowfall a little more interesting than 1997-1998 and 2023-2024. But we probably wouldn’t be able to forecast such a reversal until the winter is already underway. So not many people would be willing to include it in their seasonal forecasts with the warmer risks of such an extreme El Niño event that is developing. Plus not sure if we could go 3 winters in a row with such strong blocks like we had in February 2025 and the 2025-2026 winter at different intervals. 2015-2016 was a reversal of the record +NAO +AO pattern in 2014-2015 +AO. So we may not be able to use it as a reasonable blocking analog. We have been experiencing very extreme NAO and AO reversals since 2009-2010. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2016JD025288 In January 2016, Asia and North America experienced unusual cold temperatures, although the global average of surface air temperature broke the warmest record during a strong El Niño event. This was closely related to the remarkable phase transition of the Arctic Oscillation (AO), which can be explained by stratosphere-troposphere interactions. First, the quasi-biennial oscillation changed to its westerly phase in summer 2015 and the stratospheric polar vortex was stronger in early to midwinter 2015/2016. As blocking did not occur in December, the associated downward propagation signal resulted in a strongly positive AO in late December 2015. Second, after late December, the positive phase of Pacific-North America pattern became apparent in El Niño event, which strengthened the Aleutian anticyclone in the stratosphere. In addition, an equivalent barotropic (“blocking”) anticyclone was established in the troposphere over Asia. The coexistence of blocking over Asia and North America characterized the negative AO and a strong zonal wave number 2 pattern. Due to stronger zonal wave number 2 signals from the troposphere, the stronger stratospheric polar vortex was elongated, with two cyclonic centers over Asia and the North Atlantic in January. The resultant southward displacement of polar vortices was followed by rare snowfall in the subtropical region of East Asia and a heavy snowstorm on the East Coast of the United States.

The water table barely broke the surface in my seasonal woodland wetland this Spring. Just some patches of "puddles" here and there. Normally it ends up an expansive area(an acre) of water a foot deep. Applying larvicide was an easy job.

countdown to more sunlight as well! Exciting

Holy wind

From several showers and a severe thunderstorm, I received ~1.75” yesterday. That put me then at ~3.80” MTD. I received more rain overnight of varying intensities and it’s still falling very lightly with constant rain since late last night. I’ll post the total for this later. It will be >0.5”. No more watering for at least awhile!

Let’s go USA!!

.39 here, but better than nothing. It is a beautiful day out there today! Glad that you guys cashed in.

Grain of salt....this guy is kind of a weenie IMHO. https://www.severe-weather.eu/

Excellent summer so far. Here is my local CSA haul for this week. Going to sit on the deck and shell those 3 bags of English peas.

Parents are here this weekend. They’ve been here during the Halloween blizzard, Sandy, Irene and several 100 degree, humid as Houston days. Nice they get a taste of what true PA summer should be.

I managed .65 as things were mostly south or north of me.

Got some great rainfall with highs today and tomorrow in the 70s with lows in the 50s. More rain coming Monday.

The El Niño standing wave/forcing around the dateline has become extremely well pronounced with organized and strong, persistent convection in that area. Negative OLR and negative CHI200 anomalies are really showing up now, indicating the strengthening of organized deep convection and upper tropospheric divergence…. @GaWx Given that the MEI is a measurement of SSTs, sea level pressure (which includes SOI in part of that measurement), surface winds and OLR, my guess is that it continues to rise at the current record-breaking pace on the next update

Yes sir! Had just a hair under you at 1.67 but that really beats any forecast that was put out which im happy about. Got some really beneficial rainfall and it was even raining at around 6 this morning.

The risk turned out to be a very windy sunny warm day. This was nothing for days storm wise.

Down in Morehead City, NC. Impressive line coming through the county and a good spin right over Havelock.

Countdown to less sunlight begins

Countdown to less sunlight begins

2026 warmed to +1.2 relative OISST on June 17th, which is 0.1 warmer than the warmest week on record (back to 1982) centered nearest to June 17th, 1997’s +1.1: 2026: +1.2 1997: +1.1 1987: +1.0 2015: +0.9 1982: +0.8 1994: +0.7 1991: +0.6 2002: +0.5 2009: +0.4 2023: +0.4 Data source: https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/data/indices/rel_wksst9120.txt

Will this system “reconfigure” the atmosphere now so it will start raining on the regular? Or will it go back to being dry?

Got the decent rains over night and this morning. yay!!! .85" for the day today. 1.03" for Arthur and company. You can hear the sighs of the lawns and plants outside this morning.

I just emptied 1.79 inches out of the gage this morning. Not bad at all for yesterday's beneficial rain!

Feels like one of those deals that could have a narrow area of intense rain.