Buffalo Bumble

Amazing pics from you guys in eastern NY. Another day of frequent snow squalls here. That's probably what amazes me most about this...I remember other snowfalls in May, it's not that uncommon. But the sun comes out, snow melts quickly, and we jump back to spring. This is legitimately locked in winter for 2+ days. No quick melt, no warming breeze. Just...winter.

Great shot!! Clear here too, if wind drops temps should really nosedive.

I'm certainly no climate scientist and haven't read too much on this, but...I bet you would find that average temps here from about mid-March through May are much cooler than the rest of the NH at similar latitude for what seems like 2 obvious reasons - 1) frozen Hudson Bay and residual snow cover in eastern Canada extending down to 45 deg latitude; and 2) massive bodies of water (Great Lakes) immediately upstream ranging in temps from freezing to 50 degrees. Combine that with building heat domes in the southwest US pushing up into the Rockies with a propensity for air coming off the Rockies to bend southeast, and you have a perfect recipe for a mean trough over the upper GL's/northeast US. Seems like from Washington D.C. points west are immune from our seasonal spring lag/extended winter as they mild and green up on que in early April.

I feel like this current NH snow cover image is a good indication of why our springs more often than not are horrible (cold, wet, cloudy, snowy). Snow cover persists towards the 45th parallel right over our heads, whereas the rest of the NH is snow free up to the 60th parallel. Perfect recipe for our spring "perma-troughs", and certainly a clear pathway for polar air to slide into our region with accompanying fat fluffy snowflakes. And during the middle of the day 6 weeks from the freaking summer solstice no less.

I made a post in mid-April about being rather amazed to see "real" snow falling in the middle of the day (big flakes, sticking easily...like look out the window and it could be January). Fast forward to May 8 at 1115 am and same exact thing! Gentle mid-winter snow parachuting down. Unreal.