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Let the dry out begin...

I agree 8:30 sounds very strange even thinking about that. However, I think its a good trade off to prevent those awful 4:30 pm sunsets.

Out for a walk and it is wonderful! Sunny, nice breeze, low humidity, perfect early fall like summer day.

I think that a lot of the frustration comes from saying that April (7th warmest on record in Detroit and Chicago) is equivalent to any of these months being below average, when none of them were anywhere near 7th coldest. Essentially the argument you guys are saying is 7th warmest is balanced by being colder than normal, even if it’s like the 50th coldest (I didn’t verify the actual ranking, feel free to check what those below average months ranked). So it just feels like a false equivalency that you guys are arguing.

Neeeeed.

As a cold/cool weather lover this is heaven. Hold that heat off as long as possible!

Plus, a similar strength el nino in 09-10, which produced a very cold (and in the mid-Atlantic, very snowy winter) happened in between. In hindsight, though, we probably should have seen that 25-26 was going to be a cold and snowy winter in the East, and warm in the West. 25-26 was the 2nd year without a defined ENSO state. In recent times, 2nd years without a defined ENSO state (93-94 and 13-14) were cold and snowy in the East, and warm in the West.

Many areas improved as expected. But they did extend the extreme to more of the SAV area as NorthHills predicted. However, if the forecasts verify well, even this area will improve some there on next week’s map.

25⁰ windchill at Scooters house. Family gathering in the living room huddled together with winter gloves hats and heavy blankets is so far from normal. Like a 75⁰ turkey day.

I am not exactly happy seeing this.

Crystal ball says MDT finishes the month with a mean temp of 62.0 -- good for 1.4 BN and middle of the pack all-time. Book it.

They tend to be note overly reactionary. Updated outlook:

WB latest EPS weeklies for mid June to mid July: near normal temps and precipitation.

Late May is the equivalent of late November on the other end…so this isn’t even that. If this were June 8-10 and this happened maybe. What folks fail to realize…just as they do in late November(which is still very much autumn), is that Late May is very much still spring in New England, and this crap happens here. Everybody is always in a rush to bring in the next season…it don’t work that way on either end.

Gold tournament in Foster RI Sat afternoon should be fun; glad it’s not an AM start?

WB 0Z EPS. Spectacular Spring like week ahead.

https://phys.org/news/2026-05-hot-years.html It addresses the 'surge' nature in which the ongoing GW recency has been observed. It doesn't specifically attempt to nail down why-for that behavior; altho, it does attempt to implicate a contributing faster warming Arctic, citing less ice and snow and pan-dimensional Albedo as causal ... but that's not in depth enough. The global surging phenomenon is (or should be) of particular import. Namely, the uncertainty. There are no predictive tools, man or machine, anticipating when and to what magnitude. This may seem almost Onion obvious, but ... not knowing an entire planetary system is about to move the equivalent energy of every atomic weapon, is bad. And is strangely poetic, wouldn't you agree? Such was the mysterious lurch of late February thru early May, 2023. Yes ... prior to either the onset of +ENSO, but even so... vastly too soon to be sufficiently lag correlated in the first place. I'm still not fully convinced that the switch from negative to positive mode of the ENSO that spring, was causal in the global temperature surge, because of those incongruencies in specific timing - yet I continue to encounter narratives that the El Nino was instrumental. Wrong. Be that whatever it may be ... we are in the similar window now. With the expected onset of +ENSO, "super" this and that, notwithstanding, so it is a testable moment in history. .

I work weekends that's why

Unless I’m getting pasted, I’ll pass on mangled crap. Why can’t this be on a weekday.

Okay, I stand corrected. Colder than I recalled.

I’d honestly be cheering it on if it was June. But I’ve seen plenty of mid to late May flakes the past couple of decades…granted this would be the latest.

You aren't married are you. Wives tend not to be so fond of this idea.

Have not seen a PNA spike like this in quite awhile! (WB)

Pretty sure this is the first time in 7 or 8 days that any ray of sunshine has hit my house. (We haven't had as much rain as many, but more overcast)