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Great afternoon with mostly sunny skies. Jeans? Shorts and Ts today.

Hmm, interesting arrangement with that HOA, eh? I went to a new/ongoing development in Bowie last fall, and was surprised how good the turf looked. They used sod with topsoil. And the builder (who I won't name) has a bit of a reputation for poor quality. Overpriced too.

That's a little more of a -EPO than WPO. Same with CANSIPS

Clouds have rolled in now, but what a beautiful morning and mid day we've had. I had a low of 41 this morning. We'll see if we make a run at the mid 30's Sunday morning!

Nice day.

Lift from the advancing front produces sprinkles to our west. Saturday rainfall footprint along the East Coast is a preview to DJF 26/27 El Nino pattern....................... Probably......................

2002-3 and especially 2009-10 were cold in the SE.

Nice cool weather yesterday and today with more rain to good chunks of the state. Should have a nice break for a few days to help dry out a bit before more chances mid-late next week.

Probably should rename it warm season banter. I'm sure this one will last most of the summer too. Seems to be the trend last year or so...

Touched 60.4 earlier, one of the nicer days this spring.

Max 58.7° Nice sunny day despite the wind and occasional chill.

We got June weather in April and now we have March weather in May. Chilly 54 and light rain.

Sunday might clear out by late morning. This storm would be decent in Winter, a quick warning event far semass/Cape

Totally different subject - 4 days before the above, my supervisor when I began (Jan 5, 1976)as a forester was at the crew camp next to the Canadian border in far northwestern Maine. He woke up on the 17th to see 3" of snow.

WB 5/1 Canadian Jan-March. Looks wet with cold air around.

June 21st 1964 I was in attendance and watched thousands of Mets fans morph into Phillies fans near the end of Jim Bunnings perfect game. I was 17 and had taken my 10 year old cousin to the game. We sat loyally quiet as the newly converted Phillies fans went wild around us. We also sat through the second game loss but at least they scored two runs while giving up 8. As always ….

WB 12Z EPS total precip. mean for Wed. night through early Saturday.

Strong Ninos are still generally the worst-case scenario for winter here, but again, we still get winter. Ironically, the strong Nino you guys would pick out of the big guns would probably be 1982-83, and that was the worst one here. Each still has different patterns, some big storms, and often decent spells of winter....its just the mean over the whole season is subpar relative to climate. The east is more feast/famine. The Great Lakes always save us to an extent. Even in the worst case scenarios we get plenty of mood flake days to feel like winter. Detroit and Boston average near identical seasonal snowfall. In the past 50 years....both places averaged 44". Yet, look at the top and bottom 5 in those 50 years at each location. Detroit Boston 20.0” – 1982-83 9.3” – 2011-12 23.4” – 1997-98 9.8” – 2023-24 23.5” – 2023-24 12.4” – 2022-23 23.7” – 1999-00 12.7” – 1979-80 24.1” – 2003-04 14.9” – 1994-95 94.9” – 2013-14 110.6” – 2014-15 74.0” – 1981-82 107.6” – 1995-96 71.7” – 2007-08 96.3” – 1993-94 69.1” – 2010-11 86.6” – 2004-05 65.7” – 2008-09 85.1” – 1977-78

Gorgeous morning today waiting for the trains I needed to ride for work. Just gorgeous!

Its my understanding that the pre-1950 ENSO years are more subject to debate re: strength, but still cool to see which years were which. 2002-03 was another cold moderate Nino. 2009-10 was funky but cold in spots. And several others hovered near climo temp-wise.

We got through summer in less than a month, now welcome autumn!

No destructive sunshine here - blue skies, seasonal temps (high a couple degrees BN, low a couple AN) with a bit of breeze. Maple buds opening, along with black cherry.

Not a huge lag between ONI and RONI at the moment (roughly 0.3C):

We did indeed have snow mixed in with rain around 4:35 this morning in northern Noble County.

April numbers: Avg max: 52.4 +0.3 Highest, 72 on the 27th Avg min: 30.4 +1.5 Lowest, 14 on the 8th Mean: 41.4 +0.9 Precip: 4.00" -0.06" Wettest day: 1.18" on the 30th. Storm tried hard to avoid the 7th consecutive BN month (10th of 11) but fell just short. Snow: 2.4" -2.5" (But right on the median) 2.0" of 22:1 fluff fell 9:15-10;45 PM on 4/7, reported on the 8th as my 4/7 obs came at 9 PM. SDDs: one, on the 1st. The 2" fluff was intact at 7 AM for 4/8 cocorahs, but was gone long before my obs. Very average month in many ways - temp within 1°, near avg precip and median snowfall. The warmest and the lowest were within 1° of the 28-year medians (both below). Available sunshine was 43%, on the average for April. We had no powerful storms, a tune that's played for quite a while, but did have a garden-variety TS late evening of the 16th. For 8-10 minutes there was about 2"/hr rate. Half of our Aprils have had at least one thunder day.