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Finally soakers have arrived here. A little over an inch since midnight.

I don't buy it.

Shocking

So far today .43" 1.47 mtd

Nonstop light rain since last night Vienna/Fairfax. Feels similar to Memorial Day weekend 1996, which was in the fifties and raining the whole time.

We finally got a little something overnight but we definitely need a lot more.

And obviously cooler on The Block but still plenty of nice beach days

NAM twins showing a fairly significant shift nw w the precip max thru tomorrow.

Hope so . This doesn’t exactly thrill me though lol

@donsutherland1 or @bluewave Do either of you have any idea when the last time a monthly record low was tied or broken at any of our local climo sites?

Agree 100%. The picture you posted yesterday was just beautiful! I zoomed in and thought I was able to see just a little snow left up on some of the trails on the mountain in the background.

Sorry friend. Rain yesterday def hugged the MD/PA line for a few hours. I just got lucky I guess

0.5” yesterday, 0.3” so far today. Steady rain this morning.

39 to 60... Funny, it was 38 here this am when I crept down the stair. The house chillier down here, apparently having finally forgotten the warmth the other day. Typically it takes 30 or so hourse for the 'thermal edifice memory' I debated flipping the compressor to heat mode. It was just 59. I don't think it's improved much. Something about May-22nd pisses me off enough to stubbornly prevent myself. SO... ah, 61 ..I may as well just open the windows now and let the warm air in. Winning

Everyday is sunny and 75-82 next week. Probably 84-85 Tuesday/ Wednesday

All I can say is "About damn time!" https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/05/07/2026-09099/request-for-comments-on-the-national-weather-service-cooperative-observing-program-coop

I agree, but trying to be a bit optimistic But anytime you see an omega-block like look...always prepare for crap

Subjective reply here but ...I'd even go worse than 'mehhh' I'd say there's a decent chance that's a piece of shit down right frustration that pushes one's patients closer to pulling the trigger on a relo These protracted continental folding patterns that cause the Maritime to try and fist it's way back SW all the way to Florida thing that's been (apparently) a paradoxical /counter-intuitive consequence of CC ...are getting unbearable. As an aside, I had a feeling we would have a problem with this, this particular latter spring this year...because of the way the persistent upstream seasonal pattern behavior was. Since last October, really... I showed the evidence of this every month during the cold season, Nov-Apr... despite those 3 or 4 months having averaged ( Globally ) in contention for 3rd warmest since Humanity became a geological force in Earth's history ( eh hm), the NE CONUS/SE Canada were persistently showing relative offset cooler than everywhere else. This was true whether we were technically above average those months, or not. It's like always coming in last? I still see vestigial markers for that still going on, tho harder to see it. It's some kind of fractal in the hemisphere that hasn't broken completely down... and having these back ward carving Maritime troughs like the current Euro and GFS are doing is some kind of "non-Markovian" bias playing out.

I’m going out to block island next Tuesday-Saturday. Weather was looking great until I looked this morning. Wtf

May 22 2011: A strong EF-1 tornado with wind speeds up to 110 mph strikes north Minneapolis, causing extensive tree and structural damage. The tornado touched down in St. Louis Park and moved through north Minneapolis, lasting 14.25 miles before dissipating in Blaine after causing minor damage to the Anoka County Airport. The tornado reached a peak width of 1/2 mile. 2001: Record cold high temperatures are set in over 30 cities in Minnesota, including a chilly 47 in the Twin Cities and 39 at Grand Rapids and Pine River. Half of an inch of snow falls at International Falls. 1925: Temperatures take a nosedive from 100 to 32 degrees in 36 hours at New Ulm and Tracy. For Friday, May 22, 2026 1876 - Denver CO was drenched with 6.53 inches of rain in 24 hours, an all-time record for that location. (The Weather Channel) 1911 - The temperature at Lewiston ME soared to 101 degrees. It was the hottest temperature ever recorded in New England during the month of May. (David Ludlum) 1987 - A powerful tornado virtually wiped the small southwest Texas community of Saragosa off the map. The twister destroyed eighty- five percent of the structures in the town killing thirty persons and injuring 121 others in the town of population 183. The tornado hurled trucks and autos through adobe and wood- frame homes, with some vehicles blown 500 feet. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1988 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather over the Central Gulf Coast States. Tennis ball size hail was reported at Ripley MS. Showers and thunderstorms in southern Missouri produced 3.20 inches of rain at Springfield to easily surpass their rainfall record for the date. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1989 - Unseasonably hot weather continued in southern Texas and parts of the southwestern U.S. Seven cities reported record high temperatures for the date, including El Paso TX with a reading of 100 degrees. Presidio TX was the hot spot in the nation with a high of 111 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) 1990 - Late afternoon and evening thunderstorms developing ahead of a cold front in the north central U.S. produced severe weather from northwestern Kansas to central Minnesota and southeastern North Dakota. There were twenty-nine reports of damaging winds, or dime to golf ball size hail. Strong thunderstorm winds gusted to 69 mph at Alexandria, MN. Showers and thunderstorms over eastern North Carolina soaked Wilmington with 2.91 inches of rain, which established a record for the date. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

Yeah I hear ya, and we post about it because it’s the min temp… but it’s also such a small part of the day its impact is very minimal except for sleeping and maybe to the vegetation.

Seems like even going back to last december all the storms/poor weather were on weekends.

No, I get it, the recovery is fast now. Was just meaning I don’t want anymore frost/near frost mornings now. Not that what I want makes any difference in the grand scheme of things. But was just saying.

Could. Depends on what guidance one chooses. The Euro's the best; the GFS is worst. I just compared their respective ceiling RH levels. The Euro's ~ 6 hrs faster in the wholesale deep layer. Has a sharp back edge clearing in the 300 and 500 mb levels by 12z...with <= 50% in the 700mb by 18z going clear by 21 z. As is such...it's 2-m Ts are 68 to 72, but the 900 mb T argue that it's really warmer than that in the "real" 2-m ... The GFS, being slower with back edge not only retards any recovery but actually is still raining through 15z. It does finally clear in time to salvage the afternoon but the damage is done, and since this model is deliberately coded to seek out and destroy warm solutions ... it's thus succeeded damping heating potential just enough to get to it's goal of ruining the day. heh Seriously tho the 12z this morning will be intereseting to see if one collapses toward the other. After all, 72 hours away.

Yeah after next Wednesday things could get back to mehhh for the weekend...go figure