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High for the day 77. That’s decent I think if it makes it there. Regarding the fact that this summer has been seemingly cooler and drier than last year in eastern CT… One thing I notice that happens in cooler than normal patterns in summer is that you will see the several-day forecast keep trying to adjust upward and give you 80s, maybe for climo or something? But then as you get closer to any given day the forecast adjusts downward. I’m not asserting this happens so much but it’s the impression I get from my light amount of checking the forecast. I keep expecting very warm days but I keep getting 60s and 70s and dry.

Thanks I appreciate this. I bookmarked it, and hope I’ll remember to use it since the regular noaa.gov weather radar is so sluggish. I should send a feedback too about it would help. i know they sometimes put out surveys but I don’t recall one recently

I miss the old NWS radar. The new one is way too sophisticated in its display and half the time I can’t get it to load. And I have a reasonable iPhone 11 and WiFi Too big for its britches. I think there’s a way they could have made it less data hungry and function better. I don’t need that fancy features for radar.

I worked, outside on the SE coast like I always do and I was mildly miserable. When I woke up before work and perused the forecast I wasn’t sure what to make of it. High of 69… or was it 70? Depends on where I put the dot. I didn’t bother looking at the hourly graph either though. Seeing the forecast I knew that a high of 69 could totally go either way but ultimately decided on shorts and T-shirt. I was swayed by the fact it’s mid June, sun should be strong right? Big mistake. The early sun was replaced by relentless stratocumulus deck It was decidedly uncomfortable with wind chill… and I wound up wearing a light but obvious spare winter coat from my car trunk and looking weird and sweating because it was too heavy and I would alternate with and without it. Yuck. What I would have done for a cotton hoodie. Next time I will at least use long sleeve shirt if it’s a high under 72 and I will also check hourly because today it tanked with each passing hour.

Well we made it guys. For all intents and purposes it’s summer. This is a departure from my normal pattern. I usually vanish from this forum once the warm season is in force. I like Thunderstorms but those are little instant gratification perks to a day. They aren’t big, trackable, deals unless maybe if you’re someplace in Tornado alley and a super serious event is expected. Interior CT gets decent thunderstorms and in recent years you’re seeing them a little more in coastal New England than you used to I think as well, but this is just not Nebraska let’s be honest with ourselves.

As of the beginning of the week, the forecast for my early weekend outdoor work marathon promised sunny with highs in the 80s, and slight chance of showers Saturday with highs in the 80s. This “promise” seems to have slipped away, becoming highs around 70 with chances of showers. I guess that would still not be so bad and the chances are less than 50 per cent… but given the pattern we have had all spring, I can see how this may well deteriorate further. Climate change or not… Southern New England is simply known to get into multi-month funks where it just rains all the damn time. I have no doubt that, in the future, heavy rains will totally be a thing. I really should consider a job where I’m protected from the elements.

Unpleasant weather. it’s just not summer yet clearly. And hard to dress for. I have terrible genes that cause me to sweat profusely indoors if I wear hoodies or whatever and then I freeze when I go back outside, I hate it.

Between China’s lockdowns and Russia’s unrelenting vicious, violent assault and threats, to say nothing of the political pettiness and social insanity among people here at home, I have grown despondent and bitter about the behavior of humanity, at times wanting nothing to do with humanity for the rest of my life. Like, I want to get me a small but fortress-like compound and a lifetime supply of food and podcasts and mode trains and just cut people off.

Memory is a funky thing I am sure about it, so my memories may be warped. But to me, May is the first month where I can reliably expect warm and nice days to be a rule rather than an exception. Right now is late April, and winter seemed to be a long thing that was slow to leave. So when I hit up the NWS website and see that every day for the upcoming week is slated to be around 60 degrees plus or minus a few, it makes me pizzed off and makes me feel like we are being haunted by unseasonably cool weather that is overstaying it’s welcome. To me, May is the start of “mostly summer”. By this time I am expecting 70 degree days all the time, with a few nasty ones peppered in between so I am always disappointed when each day on the forecast said “high of 58” or something like that. I mean 58? What am I supposed to do with that? I shan’t assert that my idea is ultimately accurate, but it’s not surprising if I am jumping the gun on summer time.

This can be an awkward time of year. I consider the border between gorgeous and subprime to be 68 degrees, and it has to be sunny. That line in the sand is my reference point for my below discussion. The thing is, summer-like warmth is very likely to be showing up by May 5 or so….. so it’s a situation where we are just so close, but April is still being April on years like this and the cooler momentum leftover from winter is just not quite ready to just give up the ghost. Only days, even hours away, we are so close. While there have been years when I’ve lived near the 40th parallel where we have had really cool May weather, or even snow, that is really rare and if it does happen it only lasts for a day and a half. Summer’s force takes over almost guaranteed by the third week of May The week ahead on the forecast is nasty, frankly, all the way through the forecast period. but I don’t see it that that is a guarantee it will ACTUALLY still be 60 when we get to May 1. Major pattern changes often slip in unexpectedly in the middle of the forecast period, almost like it’s bubbling up from under the surface, meaning we don’t always have to wait out an entire forecast period of nastiness just because it says we will right now. And, around the end of the forecast period is when I get to get a G gauge hobby grade train set perhaps.

It’s below normal temperatures on a chronic wavelength. It could be worse, but we are way overdue for 75 degrees.

I was out completing a couple errands just now and determined it’s official: We have crossed from the cold season into the warm season. I know spring is March 1 to June 1 in the world of weather, but that is a transitional 90ish days. But some people talk about a “warm season” and a “cool season”. I guess it would make sense that April 15 would be the boundary for interior SNE… which is a middle-ground temperate climate. April 15 to October 15 is predominantly warmer weather here and after October 15 until April 15 is normally cold, chilly or otherwise unpleasant most of the time until nicer days take over in frequency around April 15.

Snooze. Not much going on. I’m not the only one who goes away in the spring, and goes away until I remember this forum exists when December rolls around. Meanwhile more severe weather focused in the southeast. Seems like it’s always down there nowadays.

Hi Bill. This is Monica.

I know you may not have intended to scoff at me, neverthrless I’ll explain my position. I’ve spent some time looking into American prosperity and how it has changed. Yes, we have garnered access to less expensive and more advanced technologies, but how good that is for people can be debated… The thing about it is, in the mid to late 20th century you could leave high school and garner an entry level retail job, and this would afford you PROFOUNDLY greater financial freedom than it will today. The reason I know this is because my parents have talked to me about their jobs they held while they were young. The fact is, purchasing power was much greater then. Wage-level jobs would easily afford you adequate housing and essentials like food were much cheaper. Education carried much more clout whereas today young people are saddled with HUGE education debt without access to adequately paying positions. This translated to the ability to save a lot of money compared to today, and cultural values were more aimed at responsible handling of finances. The climate for young people has none of that. Young people are forced to live with their parents much longer, and wages no longer afford anything but the most meager of housing circumstances. Corporations and finance are way more powerful today in their ability to manipulate society into a state of perpetual debt which translates to no financial freedom. Corporations, less competitive than before, are continuously bragging about their ability to set prices in a way to reap the maximum profits at the expense of lower socioeconomic classes. Corporate finance has become powerful to such an extent that it has almost made government structure irrelevant… and that would not necessarily be such a bad thing if it were not run by psychopaths who judge people who are way way way less fortunate than they are. Complete apathy on display. I realize that this forum is not frequented by as many people in circumstances of poverty as it is frequented by highly educated people in the sciences but not all people have access to that position. I certainly don’t. And I’m telling you, things are much worse than in the past. I’m disabled but the amount I’ve been able to work and cultural values of the past might have lended me to be able to have much more security in my state of ability than it does today, where I have to worry about future homelessness being a possibility I think the biggest reasons for the change are the percentage of how much of your budget goes to food and housing and the lack of financial cloud basic college education affords nowadays. In the past it was “work hard and play your cards right and you’ll succeed”. But now it’s “work hard and you have a 30 per cent chance of succeeding”

I saw a post about some wealthy businessman making derogatory statements about millenials having to do with current inflation. He referred to millenials as the “entitled generation” and added implications of bad attitude and laziness, despite the fact that millenials face the worst economic situation in history and are way worse off at purchasing power than boomers. Way weaker dollar than in the 20th century. He said “ha ha they will go to the store and not be able to buy what they want”. i was very offended. He’s probably just pissed people are pulling back and not working becuase the money gets them nowhere. You have to be a complete psychopath to be in a position of extreme wealth and say shit like that.

Hey Kat Stevens! This is Cat Stephens.

Jay, move to Raynham or Taunton! Consistently the most snow in SNE, year in/year out. Great people, early green ups. God's country. You want to move to Seekonk, and open strip mall furniture store in Swansea. Yes. And each Sunday you will cross the state line to eat lunch at Chelo’s, where you will dine on Seafood chowder and clam cakes. You shall leave your server a $2 tip because that’s not depriving them of a living for their work or anything. Do it at once. You shan’t delay.

It makes a difference with snow accumulation. I can recall several mid to late February systems drop snow that failed to stick on the grass. These are obviously weak systems, because you get legit snowstorms in March and early April that stick in the daytime but by the end of February you really feel that sun. It’s a welcome change, and by late March you’re into T-shirt days peppered here and there. I will miss our winter as we got a few decent systems this winter. It could be my last, because there are talks in the family of moving to Florida by October.

Iowa recently had tornado fatalities in the last ten or fifteen days but I agree, you haven’t seen as many major Hoosier or Midwest outbreaks that I can remember lately. Kentucky is the closest. Southern Missouri is a hot spot too. Obviously Deep South severe is in early to mid spring and is before the Midwest. I never would have expected tornadoes in Iowa in March, we usually would still be snowing!

I was telling people at work that in our world spring begins March 1. The laymen public observance of the seasons starting at solstice and equinox is fooey. Spring is well underway by the second week of March… even if there is still an occasional snow the overall pattern trends warmer once you hit March.

I normally don’t consider SNE as a severe weather place. But last July I got caught driving in a cluster of severe thunderstorms with fairly large hail and torrential rains. Near Pomfret CT. This is the only time I actually was worried I could drown because the storm seemed to just get worse no matter where I went, the whole area was low lying ground and waters started rising around me and the roads were flooding. I managed to find higher ground and the storm passed before any serious flooding took place but it taught me a lesson that this could happen to anyone young or old and once you are caught in it, it’s just a matter of luck and location. In 2018 there was a serious flood in DSM IA that dropped 5 to 10 inches of rain in 60 to 90 minutes and people got killed, billions of dollars of damage. I never saw rain that heavy in my life, the edges of roofs became walls of waterfall. If you went out into it, it literally felt like standing under somebody pouring a pitcher of water onto you. I had just traded in a car to a dealership and when I went to visit them a few days later, I saw that my old car had been fully submerged among many others.

Hello Lois. This is Louis Lewis.

Not a problem. It looked like a dismissive jab at my statement because I just happened to be talking about unfavorable social hypothesis about the future, but it was a coincidence and I get now that it had nothing to do with my post.

Well there is that. But there is also the information that I have that Americans en masse had access to material wealth in the form of real estate and land that was a few magnitudes more ideal than we have today. You could take a simple job right out of high school and afford a nice apartment or small house, and a car, and have plenty of cash to spare. Land of Idiocy is one thing but it’s also a land of other things in addition to that and I think that access to luxurious cars and technological advances is a lousy replacement for space and comfortable lairs. The pace of lifestyle and prosperity deterioration has been too slow to really piss anybody off. If the decay between 1970 and 2020 took place over a span of, say, 10 years, I think a lot of people would be mad. Is it paranoid to think there is a concerted effort out there by some entity human or otherwise that is working to bleed people of their needs in exchange for technology advances? That the pace of the project is just slow enough not to cause a disturbance like the frog in the pot of warming water? IDK but that guy that called Coast to Coast radio and said he worked at Area 51 and that there was some sort of plan from non-human aliens really stuck with me. I realize that the economic advantage Americans had in the 1950s was greater than necessary and that it probably came at the expense of other nations even, but I would think that humans could at least pull off governance that guaranteed basic shelter to anybody who needs it. We can’t even do that anymore, and decent shelter is becoming increasingly difficult to afford. I think also that we multiplied way too much as a species and the extent we have clamored for resources might have something to do with all this, but what politician is gonna have access to a GOOD plan to deal with that? Seems impossible.