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also notice how your highs happen closer to 5/6 pm instead of the normal 3/4 pm. that's probably when the heavy shade starts to end

If you're traveling on US RT 2, you'll get within a mile of my place, though it's 2 miles by road - from the blinker in New Sharon by Sandy River Farm Supply (one of the cheaper gas places in the area - $2.929 last I looked). Should be a nice ride up I-95, somewhat slower HUL to PQI. The pullout north from Medway has a great view of Katahdin, possibly compromised by smoke. (Maybe you've already been through there before and I'm not offering real news. )

Awesome stuff as always!!

#itneverhits100 DCA: 99 IAD: 99 BWI: 99 RIC: 99

DCA: 99 IAD: 99 BWI: 99 RIC: 101

That ridge position in the means off the West Coast in January 2025 was able to build into the Rockies later in the month like you pointed out in 2022. But the Pacific Jet carving out a deeper Baja trough than we saw in 2022 was acting as a kicker. So the trough near the Northeast was a little too far east for a repeat of the late January 2022 blizzard. Too many competing marine heatwaves driving the pattern this past January to allow the pristine MJO 8 forcing pattern that we got back in 2022.

keep telling yourself it's that

I'm betting on a 0.7 to 1.2 degree drop when the fan aspirator kicks on....

84 and rising. So far so clear

And you took this pic while riding a bicycle

Rush 'em in and rush 'em out. Except winter of course, unless it's too icy, too cold, or doesn't snow early or often enough.

DCA: 99 IAD: 97 BWI: 100 RIC: 99

I'm actually sort of intrigued at Sunday evening. The timing seems a bit off and it's not clear that areas (especially NE of the Potomac) will be unstable enough - but 12z NAM nest really fires a lot of storms mainly west and south of the metros. It would align well with CIPS honking - but not sure there's a ton of support. Good indication of missing ingredients.

I’m looking at my pics and videos of 1/6/25 and reminiscing already… definitely in my top ten all-time favorite snowstorms.

Exactly

I think we can agree that Summer's back is broken. Sure we may see a warm or even hot day here or there but soon we will be sipping hot fresh cider and peeping at leaves.

wow that sounds absolutely amazing, the smoke was your filter

There's some sort of cycle that sends storms here every 6-8 days or so. I wonder what it is.... This cycle won't be broken until we get a real dry spell, likely after June 20th.

When we had the thicker smoke, I was able to catch the sunspots with my cell phone. That was pretty awesome.

DCA: 97 IAD: 96 BWI: 97 RIC: 97

Sunday looks to be dry but mostly cloudy. I don't think we're going to get an inch of rain out of this either.

lol, Looks like 70/50's for hi/lows up here next week.

Yeah I’d toss those GEFS temps… take +2 on most of that. So it’s normal to slightly AN… but it’s like Wiz said.. this is normal June. We like to rush seasons in.

i did not, but when i read the 5/28?? update, a footnote suggested that more area were likely to be reduced moving forward. My question was that we already had most of the rain in the bucket, and wasnt sure why the 5/28 map wasnt reflective of that. Again, that's showing the limits of what I know about drought/precip maps and the criteria used to make em. Thats all. Regarless, the map you posted is a much better looking one. Hoping further reductions are warrented, and not further increases. Been there...did that. Have a good one gang.

If we were in space, the sun would look nearly white (because evolution has determined that we see our sun as nearly white, as it is the primary source of light on our planet and our eyes use that to adjust color balance.) Life on exoplanets would most likely see their sun as white for the same reason (even though we might see their sun as orange or red.) By the way the reason that photosynthetic plants are green is because green has the highest efficiency rate of absorbing light from a yellow sun. On an exoplanet with what we perceive as a red sun, we would see photosynthetic plants as purple for the same reason our photosynthetic plants are perceived by us as green. The atmosphere always has an effect on the color of the sun, the particles suspended in it decide on how much. A lucky shot I took with a solar filter on one of my cameras to capture the sunspot maximum we had last year, caught a bird flying through the frame and eclipsing the sun (yes the sky darkened for a brief second as the bird flew by, just like it would during a real eclipse.) I have another shot somewhere where a plane flew right in front of the sun.