JerseyWx

33 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

We just hate warm weather. What's wrong with that ?

Two things:

1. We don't want to hear it every day.

2. We don't want to hear it when it's above 70 degrees.  If we were in a legit heatwave with high dews I could understand.

87 here.

3 hours ago, MANDA said:

Yes, another 31 days but the gain of daylight is subtle each day now.  Only 15 minutes more of evening daylight gain before we reach latest sunset.  We've almost dug out the hole and it will be time to start filling it back in again...so to speak.

We got a long way to go.  The increase might be subtle approaching the solstice, but so is the decrease following.

So nice having time to actually enjoy the day and not get home to pitch black darkness. 

37 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

Same here

Well it's only May.  Buckle in and enjoy the sun on your skin. 

This time of year I spend my days off outside, even if it's yard work. 

2 hours ago, bluewave said:

So far ISP is tied for the cloudiest May at least through the first half of the month. 
 

https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/plotting/auto/?_wait=no&q=45&network=NY_ASOS&zstation=ISP&hour=12&year=2024&month=5&_r=t&dpi=100&_fmt=png
 

Nice, I put in MMU, cloudy 62% of the time at 12 pm, double climatology.

2 hours ago, Stormlover74 said:

Yeah people forget this is what spring is usually like. It hasn't been overly wet despite the cloudy dreary cool days

Yeah but we've had more clouds and days with rain than normal, even going back to last summer.  It's not necessarily a lot of rain in terms of totals, but days and days of smaller amounts.  I remember plenty of springs that were dry and the pollen really began to build up.  I still want to see a graph with cloudy days going back to last June.  Guarantee it's way above normal.

1 hour ago, MJO812 said:

Beautiful day 

55 and sunny

Do people really hate this weather ?

It's not a matter of hating the weather, it's a matter of hating the timing of it.  November this would be understandable.

39 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

Not everyone wants to read about people loving hot weather. 

It's a weather forum. Deal with it.

And not everyone wants to read about 40's and rain being great either.  I don't care who likes what, but it just gets tiring.  We only get real heat with humidity for like 3 months of the year anyway.

18 minutes ago, jm1220 said:

Really is like clockwork. Last spring was the exact same with the weekend wet patterns. 

As was last fall, and even summer.

4 hours ago, MANDA said:

Cold upstate NY this morning.  Looks like KSLK bottomed out at 13.

Wow that's crazy for late April in the teens.

4 hours ago, kat5hurricane said:

Personally I hate this weather but why does it bother some of you that others like it? Not everybody is a warm weather fanatic even in Spring.

I really think that deep down, no one actually enjoys this 40 something degrees and damp weather for days on end.  I mean could understand the flip side, not liking 90 degree heat with humidity in summer, but it just seems some like to "troll" that we aren't seeing much nice weather.

2 minutes ago, Stormlover74 said:

Pretty typical for April. We won't break out of this for at least a month

But I'm even talking about the pattern in general since last summer.  We get a couple nice days, then pay for it with crap for several days.  Barely used the pool last year because almost every weekend had storms.

3 hours ago, jm1220 said:

And right on cue. We get teased with the warmth and the back door/drizzle garbage surges right in. 

Always happens.  We just can't break this back and forth pattern.

3 hours ago, psv88 said:

Not sure why it matters that the warming may be largely from lows. Warmer is warmer. High lows means fewer mornings with frosts and freezes that kill bugs. One could argue that higher lows has more of an impact on that environment than higher highs

I'm not arguing at all against the fact it's warming.  Just stating that the lows have been contributing to our AN departures recently.

2 hours ago, Allsnow said:

Our cool downs are still above normal 

Yeah but that's because of the warmer lows.  Our daytime highs haven't been anything crazy.

I think we can comfortably put today into the top 10 worst weather days of the year.  Just a miserable wind driven 37 degree rain all day.  Sitting at just under 2 inches here.

4 hours ago, psv88 said:

I may have to move somewhere else if these late season blocks become the new norm. Can’t deal with these shitty aprils anymore after cool and rainy winters. Absolutely miserable 

Was just thinking about this.  And it's not just April, look how bad last fall was.  If this keeps up I'm going to map out some areas.

2 hours ago, Brian5671 said:

What a wet pattern.  We were lucky to have not much the last 2 weeks to dry out a bit.

It dried out the top layer maybe, but water tables still high and definitely concerned about rivers tomorrow.  We need a dry pattern that lasts for several months, and when it does rain it's not big soakers.

1 hour ago, Brian5671 said:

Euro is a monsoon through next weekend

Shouldn't surprise anyone.  No matter the kind of winter we have spring tends to be terrible around here lately.

5 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

It feels like full on spring here this week...

And yet next week my forecast highs are in the 40's with lows in the 20's.  I see all these t-shirt people and wonder if they think it's summer from here on out.

Just about 2" here and still raining.  Had some heavy pockets where it really came down.  Stuck in the upper 30's most of the day.  Doesn't get much worse.

19 minutes ago, winterwx21 said:

Figures that after a very warm winter, a cold shot will likely be coming in around the 19th for the official start of spring. But before then we could have temps in the 70s late next week, as bluewave pointed out. 

It's really part of the up and down pattern we've been in for awhile.  Warm up, cool down on repeat, although the former tends to last longer.

3 hours ago, bluewave said:

Plenty of extra Atlantic warmth and moisture to fuel more heavy rains.

 

 

Good data.  Definitely not surprised to see we're in the wetter area.  Really ever since June it's felt like we've been in an excessively grey and wet period.  Almost never had to add water to the pool, and look how many weekends we lost in the Fall.

58 minutes ago, lee59 said:

Did you ever see a forecast like this?

Sierra Nevada north of Tahoe

Tonight

Snow showers. The snow could be heavy at times. Widespread blowing snow. Low around 23. Windy, with a southwest wind 34 to 37 mph, with gusts as high as 47 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. Total nighttime snow accumulation of 22 to 28 inches possible.

Friday

Snow showers. The snow could be heavy at times. Some thunder is also possible. Widespread blowing snow. High near 28. Windy, with a southwest wind 34 to 37 mph, with gusts as high as 55 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 30 to 36 inches possible.

Friday Night

Snow showers. The snow could be heavy at times. Widespread blowing snow. Low around 18. Wind chill values as low as -1. Windy, with a southwest wind 38 to 41 mph, with gusts as high as 60 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 36 to 42 inches possible.

Saturday

Snow showers. The snow could be heavy at times. Some thunder is also possible. Widespread blowing snow. High near 22. Wind chill values as low as -2. Windy, with a southwest wind 30 to 32 mph, with gusts as high as 41 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 18 to 24 inches possible.

Saturday Night

Snow showers. The snow could be heavy at times. Some thunder is also possible. Widespread blowing snow. Low around 17. Windy, with a southwest wind 26 to 33 mph, with gusts as high as 38 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 12 to 18 inches possible.

Sunday

Snow showers likely, mainly before 4pm. The snow could be heavy at times. Widespread blowing snow, mainly after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 23. Breezy. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New snow accumulation of 9 to 13 inches possible.

Sunday Night

A 50 percent chance of snow showers, mainly before 10pm. The snow could be heavy at times. Widespread blowing snow, mainly before 7pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 15. New snow accumulation of 4 to 8 inches possible.

If you add up all the "new snow accumulation" that's like 14 feet??

Pretty decent wind gusts.  Half an inch of rain here since midnight.  

42 now down from 57.

32 minutes ago, gravitylover said:

I just said that in another thread. My yard is too soft to do a real walk around but it's a mess with sticks and branches down and all of the tall flowering weeds that I let go are down and broken. Cleanup is gonna take a while this year. 

That's why I've been doing periodic clean-ups the past few years.  A couple weeks ago for instance, before the snow came, I filled up a whole bag with branches, stray leaves, and some other yard debris.  Now when spring arrives there won't be much to do.