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Steady light rain ongoing but looks to be last batch. Should see drying and some brightening by later this afternoon. Event total here as of 8am 1.90". Hoping to get something on the grill for dinner. Remember those who gave all this Memorial Day. My great Uncle, killed on Iwo Jima. I of course never met him. He enlisted at age 18, right out of high school and was deployed to Iwo Jima. My mother told the story of how she was visiting her grandparents in rural Teaneck, NJ. and she was sitting in the living room with her grandmother (my great uncles mother) when two marines knocked on the door with the news that he had been killed. My nephew, a marine now holds his medals and dog tags.

They are not likely to make it up. Lots of $ lost for those folks this weekend. One of the three big summer weekends was just flushed down the drain.

Have to believe the bicycle stuff is due at least in part to the tough economy right now. Gas costs eating into people's disposable income? I'm sure the weather does play at least some part though. Hope things pick up for you soon.

The only folks I feel sorry for this weekend are those that count on nice beach weather weekends to earn a living. It is a short season for them and this long holiday weekend was wasted. The rest of us will survive, it is an annoyance at worst.

Rain all but over out this way. Clouds will linger along with some mist and drizzle. Event total here as of 8am = 1.55". Temperatures have been in the mid to upper 40's for about 30 hours. Just now popped to 50 degrees. Spread fertilizer on Friday afternoon and nice slow rain was perfect to soak it in. Nice soaking sub forum wide.

Thanks for the stats! So a small one site sample shows: - 40 years since the last monthly record low. - 92 years since a monthly record low during meteorological winter. Since 1998 5 monthly record warm readings but none of those during meteorological summer all were during meteorological winter. Of course NYC temperatures during the summer are skewed low since equipment was moved from out in the open to the middle of a thicket. Hard to envision a monthly record low in NYC until the next climate shift to cooler occurs from whatever the cause of that may be. Volcanic? Next natural climate shift? Something more drastic?

@donsutherland1 or @bluewave Do either of you have any idea when the last time a monthly record low was tied or broken at any of our local climo sites?

Anyone have an idea of when the last time was around here that a monthly record low was tied or broken?

Steady light to sometimes moderate rain ongoing. Very chilly and damp with temperature currently at 54 degrees. Had an overnight low of 50. As of 8am had received .12". Ongoing rains will moisten the soil so that the upcoming weekend rains will be more able to soak in instead of just initially running off. Going to put some fertilizer down tomorrow. Been waiting for some decent rains to apply it. Totals as of 8am this morning. Some places did really well. Click to zoom.

Small clusters of storms developing over CPA

Watch posted sub forum wide.

Sampling of the highest readings across NJ today.

Warmest NJ highs from this afternoon.

Currently a 97 near TTN. Cooking over the interior of NJ today.

90-95 along the urban corridor over NJ seems very realistic.

Look on the bright side. We are only about 30 days away from the latest sunset and then we will SLOWLY start going the other way. The hole is almost dug and we will soon starting filling it in.

Some of the NJ hot spots are flirting with 90 degrees this afternoon. NJ April climate summary: https://www.njweather.org/content/thermal-whiplash-april-2026-recap-and-20252026-snow-season-overview

Worked out in the yard all morning from about 8:00 to 12:30. Started out pretty cool but once the sun hit where I was working it got warm. As somewhat gusty breeze still made it feel very pleasant. Soil is VERY DRY!

A paltry .07" here. Yet another event that looked decent 3-4 days out only to dwindle at go time. Top soils are barely ok but will dry out very quickly with any stretch of sunny, very wam to hot weather. Long term dryness persists. It has gotten better over the last 4-6 weeks but could easily go in the other direction fast if we don't get meaningful rain. Southeast really taking it on the chin. We'll see if that persistently dry area hangs on and/or expands over the next few months. It could make an upper ridge want to hold on as the Summer takes hold.

Certainly not worthy of any awards....that's for sure.

Nice explanation from him but even he seems a bit uncertain about the transition. I think they should have left the older models (at least the NAMS) in place and let them run operationally for another year alongside the RRFS. He thinks the V2.0 will be an improvement but who knows when that will be available operationally. Will be interesting once the older models disappear to see how things shake out. I'm personally still going to miss the NAMS in winter events since it handled low level thermals better than any other model, IMO.

Not a popular move. I feel the same way...see above.

I'd rather they all hung around. I personally don't think the RRFS is quite ready to solo in prime time. At least we knew the inherent short comings in the existing soon to leave us models and could use them as tools. NAM always seemed superior to other guidance (most of the time) in nailing CAD and speed of mid level warming in snow to mix/rain scenarios. Will miss that.

Not looking forward to months of AC but that's the way it goes. Much rather have the windows open a bit at night and be under the blankets. That will be coming to an end soon enough.

Sampling of the coldest NJ lows this morning. Likely not another morning with this kind of areawide chill until late September or October.