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Low of 43, glad I turned the heat back on.

55 / 38 clear (for now) Clouds arriving by noon / early afternoon. Still think we'll push rain totals 0.50 - 1.50 in places but most between 05 and 1.00 inches Wed into Thu. Thu / Fri kind of a repeat of Mon/Tue in reverse Overall cooler pattern - clouds Saturday and still watch for unsettled progression. Trough into the east now to persist towards the first week of May. Moderation towards mid May. Could be looking at a 2008 style May.

Holy moly that overperformed

I finished #6 yesterday. And that's a solid six...it's not like I'm out there mowing nothing. My yard has been going nuts for weeks.

GSP forecast from this morning through Thursday evening below. .37 for all 3 days. My ACTUAL rain just this morning only and just so far: .82 I love me some over performing!

All these offices incurred staffing losses when we made 'merica fuckin' awesome agin'. I'm sure SPC, being under the NOAA umbrella, are in a similar situation where top-down imposed cuts erode their abilities? That'd be my high confidence guess, considering there's been articles written about how staffing cuts lent to poorer hurricane this and that, too... It's a pervasive problem that we the mouth breathers, in order to form a more perfect union, had the audacity to believe would get us anywhere closer to that description. This facet of the times we are in ...hasn't gone away. Yet we keep having these post where we are surprised this and that. No ... we are not surprised. What we all are is disconnected, in all aspects of the reality we create at a civilization level, from the consequences of our collective actions - apparently.. This can be easily proven. Well, by this shit above... But it can be proven by the predicament of anthropomorphic -induce CC and the enabled denialism ... It can be proven by everything in between. This is also part of the ( most probably ) Fermi Paradox explanation, for those of us that know what that means/is... Civilizations innovate the ability to survive that exceeds the background trials and tribulations of the pure biological Darwinism, ...resting in relative affluence. The Law and principles of lessening returns kicks in as apathy and sloth take over. This creates a nonchalance to morality and virtuosity, too. This enabling to flout advice and act sort of recalcitrant to the objective reality and truth that your grand kicks are less likely to survive ( ironically...), won't be obvious until you see them drop dead. Basically ... culminating in a carelessness with dad's species gun. It's going to fun for the interstellar aliens that happen by our solar neighborhood and detect a world with bio-markers... come check it out, and what they find makes Shelley's "Ozymandia" the best metaphor to describe.

My parents live about 20 miles south of Ft Myers-while they had some flooding at the Naples Beach the city was largely spared the damage just to the north. Amazing how 20 miles makes all the difference if you're not in the eyewall.

most of that is well to our west.

I have considered this. Perhaps I should, then May's not suck anymore

Where'd the big rainy pattern go-Upton has showers Wed night/Thurs AM and then nothing through the weekend

Well what a surprise we have this morning. Not adding up to much yet in CLT, but thats better than the 0 that was forecasted for this AM. Lets see what happens tomorrow too.

You should start counting down to June 1st because every May is shiat

56 degrees and cloudy.

3 days left

free of frost concerns here but a naso great mid range outlook

Looking ahead we are going to have frost potential as late as May 10th. I'd hold off planting a garden for a good 12+ days. Even if the frost is light/patchy the plants probably wouldn't grow much anyway with these cooler temps.

Oh my god, Ditty, look at that PDS watch, it is sooo big

That event was the biggest tornado outbreak that I can remember. The only other event that even comes close in my mind was April 16-17, 2011. Both events even spun tornadoes up into our area.

Glad we didn't install.

I like big busts and I cannot lie?

Second big bust this year

0.38" at 7 am CoCoRaHS reading! Most since 4/2 when 0.51 fell. Brings monthly up to 1.41", still over 2" below normal. Currently 48.8/47.6 at 8 am with very light rain falling.

I was initially shocked to see the PDS tornado watch, especially given it was south of where the best overlap of ingredients seemed to be and even south of the moderate risk which was for the higher tornado probs. I wonder if the lack of upper-level forcing was a big culprit in this...those situations are always a challenge because too much forcing (or too strong) and you'll have convection developing all over the place making it difficult for convection to become mature enough and utilize the environment fully. Probably should throw in capping too...that EML may have been a bit too strong (coincident with the weaker forcing). This may have been a huge issue even in Missouri...many of those cells were really trying to take off but something was impeding those updrafts from really taking off.

WB 0Z EPS keeps it cool through mid May. Next long range rain chance toward the end of next week.

WB 0Z EPS keeps Saturday system to the south.