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3 day totals via CoCoRaHs reports which looks good including NYS Mesonet and my Wanted 1.25. Drought over for the time being, as per last Tuesday's report and this attached data that goes into the 5/27 report publicly available 5/29. EC suite was overdone for this period, no doubt...both wind and rain. Looks to me like milder this coming weeks 70s morphs into summer June 1, more or less on schedule with at least 80s almost daily the first week of June, excepting coastal sea breezes. CoCoRaHs 3 days attached-click for clarity.

I've had good success with seed from American Meadows. They have native flower mixes for our area. Nothing eats the flowers and they are drought resistant.

40’s? Should be 50’s for lows even some dews later in week or weekend

Summer returns after next weekend. It’s coming.

My Mom would tell me, “ remember you are judged by the friends you keep”. Well done, forky, as always…..

EWR: 5/19: 73 / 52 (-1) 5/20: 71/50 (-3) 5/21: 59 / 50 (-10) 5/22: 53 / 50 (-13) 5/23: 67 / 48 (-7) NYC: 5/19: 69 /51 (-4) 5/20: 67 / 49 (-6) 5/21: 59 / 49 (-11) 5/22: 51 / 48 (-15) 5/23: 63 / 47 (-10) LGA: 5/19: 70 / 52 (-4) 5/20: 68 / 50 (-6) 5/21: 59 / 49 (-11) 5/22: 53 / 48 (-15) 5/23: 67 / 48 (-8) JFK: 5/19: 74 / 53 (+3) 5/20: 69 / 50 (-3) 5/21: 58 / 50 (-8) 5/22: 55 / 49 (-10) 5/23: 67 / 48 (-5)

Records: Highs: EWR: 93 (1964) NYC: 93 (1975) LGA: 91 (1964) JFK: 86 (1964) Lows: EWR: 40 (1963) NYC: 39 (1963) LGA: 41 (1963) JFK: 41 (1963) Historical: 1877: Heavy snows occurred over parts of the northeast and New England. 4 inches of snow fell in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. 1894 - Six inches of snow blanketed Kentucky. Just four days earlier as much as ten inches of snow had fallen across Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. Six days earlier a violent storm had wrecked nine ships on Lake Michigan. (David Ludlum) 1930 - A tornado touched down near the town of Pratt, KS, and traveled at the incredibly slow speed of just 5 mph. (The Weather Channel) 1940 - Hail fell near Ada OK to a depth of six to eight inches, and rainfall runoff left drifts of hail up to five feet high. (The Weather Channel) 1987 - Severe thunderstorms in southwest Texas spawned a couple of tornadoes near Silverton, and produced golf ball size hail east of the town of Happy. Thunderstorms also produced large hail and damaging winds in Louisiana and Texas. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary) 1988 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather in the southeastern U.S. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 88 mph at Columbia, NC. Baseball size hail was reported near Tifton GA. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1989 - Thunderstorms developing ahead of a cold front produced severe weather across the Upper Midwest through the day and night. Thunderstorms spawned 30 tornadoes, and there were 158 reports of large hail and damaging winds. A strong (F-3) tornado caused five million dollars damage at Corning, IA, and a powerful (F-4) tornado caused five million dollars damage at Traer, IA. Thunderstorm winds gusting to 88 mph killed one person and injured five others at Stephensville, WI. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1990 - Severe thunderstorms spawned two dozen tornadoes from Montana to Oklahoma. Four tornadoes carved a 109-mile path across central Kansas. The third of the four tornadoes blew 88 cars of an 125-car train off the track, stacking them three to four cars high in some cases, and the fourth tornado caused 3.9 million dollars damage. The third tornado injured six persons who were trying to escape in vehicles. A woman was "sucked out" of a truck and said that at one time she was "airborne, trying to run but my feet wouldn't touch the ground". She also saw a live deer "flying through theair". (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

Started off at 45. Chilly surf session at dawn. At least the water temp is already flirting with 60.

If only our species could learn to love as they do. A memory wet with tears, as always ….

Just had another shower to start off the holiday weekend on a good note

57 / 43 partly cloudy - mostly cloudy today mid 60s but looks dry. Warming Sunday to the low 70s and mid 70s with sunny conditions on Monday - memorial day. Warmer Tuesday ahead of next trough digging in could approach 80 in the warmer spots with enough sunshine. Clouds lingering around Wed/Thu with next chance of rain - which looks mainly light and staying south. brief warmup next weekend before trough returns 5/31 - 6/2. Warmth and heat from the west moves north and east with heights rising by the 5h for a much warmer mirgation. 5/24 - 5/26 : Cooler to normal / mainly dry 5/27 : Brief warm up to near / slighy above normal 5/28 - 5/29 : Clouds some light rain <0.50 5/30: 1 day warm upp ahead of trough 5/31 - 6/4 : Cooler than normal to normal 6/5 - beyond : Much warmer - potential first 90

Won’t complain about the upcoming week. But low 70s over 40s doesn’t scream summer to me. But it’s coming.

From IND's Long Term: .Next week... The overall weather pattern begins to shift next week as the upper jet becomes more west-southwesterly aloft and the storm track lifts northward into Indiana. Closer to the surface, high pressure begins to lose its influence over the state as a developing area of low pressure in the Plains and associated frontal boundaries lift northward into Indiana. Low pressure is expected to ride along the warm front extending over the Ohio Valley and provide perhaps the best opportunity for more widespread rain and embedded thunderstorms Monday night through Tuesday. The focus for greatest convective coverage will again be over southern counties in closest proximity to the warm front and track of the surface low. By Wednesday, an upper low will be in place over the Upper Great Lakes while Indiana is in in the wake of the passing surface low to the east. While it is difficult to forecast subtle waves within the upper jet this far out, this pattern would support continued mostly cloudy conditions with showers as weak waves rotate around the upper low to the north. Keeping the forecast more pessimistic mid week based on the overall weather pattern. Confidence decreases mid to late next week and into the following weekend as some longer range models have been consistent in showing another cut off low pattern developing. Guidance usually struggles with patterns featuring weakly forced systems, so confidence remains low in the finer details this far out. For now, keeping a close eye on the potentially cool and wet pattern going into early June as any warm up back to normal may be fairly brief. Should the forecast pan out with highs remaining below 70 through at least Tuesday here at Indy, this would mark a consecutive string of 8 straight days of sub-70 degree weather extending back to this past Tuesday 5/20. The last time Indianapolis experienced this for such a long period of time this late in the Spring was from 5/25 to 6/2 in 1889. The search for a return to more persistent warmth likely is still 7-8 days out and possibly beyond with 80s likely to return by early in the week of June 2. Yep, another cutoff low in the middle of next week heading into the first week of June. So far, DAY and CMH have had 15 days with measurable rainfall for this month as of yesterday. It will add up a bit next week. The record for most days with measurable rainfall for DAY is 21 days in May 2003 while CMH's record is 22 days in May 2004. Could be creeping toward the record by the end of next week.

NYC's average monthly low for May is 44 degrees (1991-2020). NYC had their coldest temperature of the month yesterday 3+ weeks in at 47 degrees. The average lowest temperature from 5/20-5/31 is 51.4 (1991-2020)

Low of 56. Dew point dropped to 44 this morning.

Back in early Spring I planted a bunch of native wildflower seeds at the back part of the yard near the edge of the woods. Lots of growth there now and starting to see beginnings of some blooms. I was thinking of making most of my back yard clover + wildflowers. Tired of dealing with the grass that never survives the Summer and constant reseeding process. White clover naturally takes over in those areas anyway, so why not just plant the stuff. Low maintenance drought tolerant ground cover. Something like this from The Vermont Wildflower Farm, although this seed mix also has some grass mixed in- https://www.vermontwildflowerfarm.com/products/magic-carpet-mix?variant=46441269920051&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=209329693&gbraid=0AAAAAD-xHrEgHFgrwptzJzqv-zz5ffLaA&gclid=CjwKCAjw3MXBBhAzEiwA0vLXQQSxPeRduIIZfvkIVk0P13QBd_cZ8nhsqIvaqhVr8ceckp02xKXd2hoCHWIQAvD_BwE

Third straight day with a low of 49. Added .01” of rainfall to the ledger. Reckon I’ll try and mow and plant some potted flowers today. Onward.

Looks more like a quasi, CC-mutilated winter (now..), moves to a quasi, CC-mutilated spring next this week. Then we'll see if the deeper summer look in the 10+ Euro has any legs. But, I've seen that heat look in the D12 range now on some seven different model cycles, Euro and GFS, since a week ago yesterday in the guidance, and it's yet to actually move closer in... I'm starting to wonder if this is going to be one of those summers where we're always chasing a heat wave in the outer guidance, and finally catch up to it september 9 through the 17th type bs

Pretty pleasant day outside so far here at the coast IMO

It felt like March yesterday afternoon. I got cold mowing grass.

I have a wild turkey who has become a regular visitor, eating the bird seed that falls from the feeder onto the ground. Makes a mess of the mulch though. They also will eat flowers, so I have been chasing it away lately. It's hard enough dealing with the deer, but Irish Spring seems to do it for the most part.

Absolutely! It's WAY overdue.

Winds putting a damper on my weekend birdwatching for what feels like the 9th weekend in a row

Low of 47

New York City has had five consecutive days with lows of 49° or below after May 20th for the first time since 1992. The last time New York City had five consecutive such days was May 24-28, 1992.