NorthShoreWx

Well that was quite the interruption. Had to take down tents and bring the bar in in a hurry.

I remember baking in the 90s Austin in March. At least the evenings were a little better at that time of year. Min this morning was 76. 97 now. I mowed the lawn in the backyard this morning while it was still in the shade, but the temp was already up to 90.

Good thing the water temperatures saved us today.

1:36 pm. Just hit 100.0 here.

Heatwave here: June 30 64 90 July 1 68 91 0.53" This morning's low was 74. Up to 85 shortly before 9am. Point and click warmer again with Friday at 101⁰

Max here yesterday was 90.1 at 1:09 pm. 68⁰ now with a noisy thunderstorm in progress. 0.40" in the guage so far. Nice!

My system is poorly placed for wind, but tonight's gust to 20.6 mph is tied for the 2nd highest gust it has recorded since I installed it 18 months ago. Highest was 21.2 mph. Its still useful. If I'm not home and I see it 10 mph or more, I know its windy.

Also this insane cloud of pollen out of one of our pines.

No rain yet, but we have large limbs down with the gust front a few moments ago. Heard them cracking and saw one fall across the street.

I'm the guest bartender at the St James Brewery this afternoon/evening (fundraiser at the tasting room for my SAR team) and was hoping for nice weather. Instead we got a typical November day. 53° cloudy and windy at 1pm. At least it wasn't last Saturday. PS Stop in and say hello.

Only 0.35" here.

Kind of a fun temperature graph. There was no local storm responsible for the drop, although the nearby ones definitely helped. DP up around 70 though non é buono.

That's it. Put that marketing degree to work. Occasional rumbles of thunder here, but only a few moments of insignificant rain so far. We maxed at 94⁰ here. Down to 81 now.

Up to 1.46” on the Ambient. Drawn out rain like this is probably about the best way to get an inch and a half on dry ground. 40⁰ and rain continues.

It's a balmy 43° here. All things considered, I'll take the rain.

30.0⁰ low this am

Took the thruway from Kingston around 9pm tonight and got treated to an awesome light show to the south.

Low was 27⁰ here with lots of frost.

While I agree in principle, most of the non-native flowering cherries are sterile. Eastern Redbud is a better choice.

I had a date. We were off from school and took the LIRR to see the circus at MSG. Thundersnow at Herald Square is a cool memory.

Down to 54⁰ here now. It's actually turned into a nice afternoon for getting some work in the garden done. It was too warm before.

We seem to have topped out at 66⁰ here. Pretty steady around 65⁰ at the moment. It's dropped from the mid 60s earlier to the low 50s around Montauk. The cape is in the 40s. This is very April.

It is literally almost 40° colder here than it was at the same time yesterday. I'm good with it. In my family we have a word for this kind of weather. We call it "April"

Thanks, that is interesting. For that 20 year period, our average last freeze is April 11. Assuming a similar comparison in the fall, that's at least an extra month of growing season here. Not trivial, especially in the fall, but I'll work those numbers another time. I think the difference in the fall will be even more...it's hard to get to freezing when the LI Sound is still near 60°. Our first fall freeze is sometimes a couple of weeks later than the center of the island, but I don't think there is much difference in the spring.

Average last freeze in Smithtown for the past 30 years is April 12. It really hasn't changed much over that time, despite 1996 being an outlier. Last 32°, Smithtown NY Year Date Low Temp 1996 5/14/1996 32 1997 4/16/1997 32 1998 4/13/1998 32 1999 3/27/1999 29 2000 4/14/2000 29 2001 4/20/2001 32 2002 4/24/2002 32 2003 4/8/2003 31 2004 4/6/2004 31 2005 4/17/2005 30 2006 3/30/2006 32 2007 4/11/2007 28 2008 5/1/2008 32 2009 4/17/2009 32 2010 3/28/2010 30 2011 3/30/2011 30 2012 3/28/2012 30 2013 4/7/2013 32 2014 4/21/2014 31 2015 4/12/2015 32 2016 4/14/2016 32 2017 4/13/2017 32 2018 4/21/2018 32 2019 4/2/2019 26 2020 4/19/2020 30 2021 4/4/2021 32 2022 3/30/2022 28 2023 4/10/2023 30 2024 4/26/2024 31 2025 4/10/2025 32