BrianW

I've been working outside all morning. Just a few showers here. BDR T DXR T HVN .01 GON .01

BDR with a nice late afternoon rally for their first 90 of the year.

They just discovered a tick in CT with a new virus. I think it's the same tick that carries the virus that makes you sick when you eat meat. Report shows first evidence of longhorned tick infection in CT in recent years It's the first evidence of a longhorned tick with Ehrlichiosis in the entire country. https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/report-evidence-invasive-longhorned-tick-infection-ct/3573815/ Also those in CT can get ticks that bit them tested for free at The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven. https://portal.ct.gov/caes/tick-office/tick-office/information-on-submitting-ticks

71/69 at 4am. What a special morning...

Great week coming up. Love to see those first triple H's.

COC'd.. @RUNNAWAYICEBERG

Was just looking over my solar production data and it's been pretty terrible here. Some sites up up in NNE have had like zero solar production. May 2023 was a record month.

Summer rolling in right on schedule.. Looking ahead, it`s very possible, if not likely, this will be the coolest day across the region for at least the next week as a warming pattern set ups into the start of meteorological summer.

Beautiful sunrise here in Old Lyme.

Nice sunny day here in Old Lyme but with the wind this is the only one enjoying the beach...

Nice evening here in Old Lyme...

This sucks. https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/south-county/fire-breaks-out-at-matunuck-oyster-bar/

You can also click the airport then monthly summaries and get charts like this.

I'm sure there will be some wood smoke wafting up north but temps look to rebound quick.

https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/ASOS/current.phtml?sortcol=ts&network=CT_ASOS&metar=no&sorder=asc&format=html

Turned out to be a beautiful sunny day here. BDR with the high of 76.

Post up the charts. It's a completely different climate zone down here. Same growing zone as the mid Atlantic (7b) per the 2023 USDA map updates.

Maybe in NNE but down here it's been an exceptionally warm month both for highs and mins. DXR is+7.4...

First Clematis blooms. One of my favorite flowers.

+5.9 for HVN and my central air has been running hard this week and month.

Looks like a great dewy day today with some storms later. Current activity in PA has mainly dissipated and confidence in showers/thunderstorms this morning for our area has decreased. Latest consensus across the CAMs is we are able to clear out enough to get MLCAPE values up as high as 1500 J/kg this afternoon across northeast NJ, the Lower Hudson Valley and interior southern CT NBM was used of for T and Td today giving highs in the upper 70s to mid 80s for most and Tds reaching the mid to upper 60s.

Yeah. They are outstanding units that behave like a mini split. We have some of the most expensive electricty in the US in New England. Anyone not running one of these is just throwing money to Eversource. I don't think people realize how expensive electricty in New England is compared to the US. Top 5 most expensive according to the EIA monthly data.. Hawaii .4269 Connecticut .3325 RI .3307 California .3166 MA .3044 https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.php?t=epmt_5_6_a A traditional window AC unit just cycles the compressor on and off at full speed at like 800 watts. They usually end up running non-stop at like 800 watts when that much cooling power is often not necessary. These Midea U are using variable speed dc fans and compressor. They can throttle the compressor down to as low as like 150 watts and run up to max at the exact cooling load for the room. They are also like 10 times quieter at low speed. I

For South County RI this time of year I would consider this good beach weather. My truck hit 80 a few times along route 1. I think it's the sand in this area but right now it is one of the warmest according to the wunderground stations. It's even like 75-77 out on Pt Judith.

Great Beach day with 76 at the Narragansett town Beach. Lots of people in the water. https://www.wpri.com/live-cams/narragansett-beach/