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today was probably the last day i was in winter gear until this fall..

We need several long round of slow, soaking rain and unfortunately that just doesn't seem to be in the cards.

Switzerland is amazing and very accessible.

Deep nap. They are out there flying around once the sun is out.

low of 26f here.

Man thats awesome. I haven't been out of the country yet but I possibly planning to go to the Alps this May before I start my summer coaching job. Do you have any recommendations on locations/any other advice?

at least it warms up quickly once the sun is out this time of year

Hey all, just wanted to ask if anyone knew any good sites for seeing past synoptics (namely 500mb height anomaly/jet stream and surface maps) I know the NWS has their surface map archieves but I remember being recommended a site one time with all that information. Paging some of the mets @MillvilleWx @WxUSAF

32.2F here - technically did not hit the freezing point.

I think they’re hardier than peach (people are growing some in MN). But you’d almost never get ripe fruit there with your short growing season. There are some cultivars out there that ripen early though.

We are already headed there. Hasn't really rained much last month and we had a fairly dry winter despite the robust snow. Saturday's event could miss SW as well

Gotta be careful, though....2023 mimicked modoki forcing, but it was because the west Pacific was so warm, so it actually created a MC influence...which was wretched.

Yea, yea, as well...except for 1982, which was around normal.

an overnight low of 25 and lots of sparkly frost everywhere earlier. hope that's the end of that nonsense until the fall.

I tend to doubt there will be 100 degree days in July followed by 50's - the thing to be really concerned about this summer with a lack of tropical activity and El Nino is drought conditions becoming severe along the east coast

Scooter yesterday https://www.facebook.com/share/r/17MFfRZ1sQ/

Friday through Sunday looks like a heavy traffic circus in the Plains. Saturday and sometime late Sunday looks like left-overs from the Friday and Saturday Plains come through the Valley. Should be just showers, not severe, as upper energy and LLJ all eject north and/or weaken this way. Monday could be more interesting, especially if the GFS is closer to the truth. Morning wave will create complications with the instability forecast. However by Monday evening the LLJ is forecast to recover over the South with a back wave. That'd be fireworks. ECMWF is less convincing with the second wave but does have some LLJ recovery. Both have adequate speed shear and turning. Questions remain at the surface and also if the second wave is real or trash. SPC has Day 7 into the South for Monday. Even with all my concerns, late April temps often find a way to recover. (I also recall a couple times the Georgia cool wedge oozed west and cut off even Alabama). They are prudent to outlook Monday just in case.

Pawpaws at our frost pocket would probably fare the same as Reliant peach, which was (almost) a total failure. Hit 17° this morning, cool for late April, though we've matched it on 4/29 (twice).

This comes after we broke the one-day record for biggest temperature drop last month. Yep, this isn't normal. I've seen temperature swings, but not this many in such short order like we have this spring. I hope this doesn't continue. I'll even take consistent 50 or 60 degree days over this. No one wants 100-degree heat to be followed by 50-degree temps in such short order in June or July.

I wonder where all those bees and wasps that were out last week went ?

Northern Catalpa are traditionally only native to parts of the MS river valley, but they grow like weeds everywhere. Blue ash isn’t native here either, but it has shown a little more EAB resistance than green and white. Of course it could just be a preference thing and once the green and white are gone they’ll move onto the blue. Can’t help you with the beech though. Hickories and black walnut are nice shade trees, but hickories take a long time to grow. Butternut is faster, but those are diseased and dying too. The NH state forestry nursery has butternut hybrids that they sell for cheap in bulk. We need more people growing pawpaws too.

Overnight low of 25 here. Sampling of NJ overnight lows attached.

32.8 imby/Columbia this morning. Up to 44.3 at 10:30am.

Came back 20 deg so far... 24 --> 44 Pretty much 0 discernible wind ...any movement out there is closer to untouched and unknowable. With that purity of the clear sky and now late summer sun intensity, that's about as close to a 10/10 nape factor as can be found.

First I've read of green ash surviving. Many sources have confirmed some survival of white ash but things look grim for green and brown. In Maine (also probably elsewhere), efforts are being made to collect brown ash seeds, to fend off extirpation of this species of great importance to indigenous peoples in the Northeast. (Other than urban plantings, Maine has very few green ash.) No sign of EAB on our woodlot but it's not far away. White ash is the 3rd most abundant there, trailing only red maple and balsam fir, and brown ash is a significant component as well. I plan to have a harvest in the next few years, and would harvest all ash of sawlog/veneer quality 14"+ diameter while retaining all other ash. (The 2013 harvest included no hardwood sawlogs but took a significant volume of hardwood pulp. A second harvest would take some red and sugar maple logs along with the ash.)