NorthShoreWx

Doesn't sound like an apple's to apples comparison. Depends on the kind of trees. Near here, trees along RT 25 in Caleb Smith and 25a north of the bull are past peak and shedding leaves. Where there are primarily oaks still lots of green. I just got home from the North Conway area and it was surprisingly similar in places. As you head up the notches it looks more winter like. This is from Bear Notch Road near Bartlett on Thursday.

I just saw a great shooting star to the west heading roughly from south to north. I wouldn't call it a fireball, but like someone threw a sparkler close by. Definitely one of the better ones. Anyone else catch it?

Seabreeze front showed up really well on satelite and radar, but it is a seabreeze without any gumption. Pretty solid and rather darkish Cu overcast and temp dropped from 94 to 88, but I suspect we'll see mid 90s again when the sun comes back out. Looks like northern Nassau is sizzling all day in the sun. Even the south shore down to the beaches is still high 80s except for right on the beach in parts of the south fork where it is around 80, but there are still 90s away from the beach there too. It only looks like a seabreeze. Anyone notice that MCS about 300 miles south of MTP? Wicked outflow boundary on the south side of it while the exhaust blows off to the north. Looks awesome on sat.

At one point about 75 - 90 minutes ago we were surrounded in all 4 cardinal directions by these otherworldly black towers (except the one to the east which was well lit). it looked like the view from a hurricane hunter in the eye of a cat 5. Continuous thunder since that time but we are still waiting for a drop of rain. The dome is intact. This is actually fascinating. I regret being outside looking up without my camera.

0.02" total here since June 11 (split between 2 different days...basically sprinkles). None yesterday. Seeing some cirrus blowoff from various storms elsewhere all morning and some forming towers to the south, but nice deep blue skies overhead. The ground is pretty crunchy around here.

That's about an inch more than we got. Same today. Watched storms spiraling down from CT and hitting a wall over the sound. Then when we decided it was safe to have dinner outside, it rained on us lightly (but enough to get us wet) for 10 minutes while we had blue sky overhead. If I had a tenth of an inch of rain for everytime I heard thunder the past couple of weeks we'd have drowned, but instead we've a trace to show for it. Sometimes you're a Louisville slugger, sometimes you're the ball.

I'm beginning to think it will never rain again here. We heard thunder, there are reports of flooding in Smithtown (and a flood advisory), but I'm about 2 miles north of Main Street and we literally did not get a single drop of rain from that cell. At least the temperature went from 84 to 78, so that's something.

April was wet enough here (5.03"), but May (2.40") and June (0.92" so far) have been dry. The last rainfall was June 12 (0.16"). The other 3/4 inch that fell this month was spread over a 4-day period from 6/4 - 6/7.

How does Euro look for the Adirondacks on Saturday?

Temp is down to 55 here.

On a clear day you can just make out the ocean looking south down the trail, especially in winter. I've read that in the past you could also see the sound, but the trees have obstructed that view since.

39 here at 3AM. Upton is down to 31. I had to look.

Hail here just before 5PM. Second time this spring. It actually started to cover the ground.

Watching that heavier squall well to the west and just noticed that there are stray flurries already flying here now. Temp is 45. Low this am was 33.8.

January was warmer

It's been groundhog day since March. Basically, we're still in March.

First snowflakes here at 12:47. Its still 41, but that's down 2 in the past 15 minutes.

Platekill Mountain has a coating so far:

Got it. We had the hail here on the 21st too. I said 22nd, but meant the 21st (since updated in post). I haven't observed any May snow in the 25 years we've been at this location (although I might have missed some in 2013), but what I was a little excited for a couple of days ago was the slight chance of light measurable. That isn't looking good at all. If you can't waste time talking about May snow during a quarantine, when can you?

Thnaks for confirming! Too bad that track meet wasn't a day later. I'll never know if it snowed here (Smithtown) on 5/25

Speaking of late snow, May 25, 2013 (Saturday of Memorial Day weekend) was darned close and I suspect parts of the area did have snowflakes mixed in. The high temp at ISP that day was 49 with about 3/4" rain and strong NE winds. I took my son to a track meet at Randalls Island and it was a miserable day (but we did get to see Usain Bolt in his prime). It was windy, rainy and cold and at one point I thought I might be seeing some white rain in the mix. Maybe I imagined it. Meanwhile, upstate this was going on: https://www.mynbc5.com/article/whiteface-mountain-gets-three-feet-of-snow/3309477 The Catskills got snow that day too. I think something similar might have happend around Memorial Day 1967.

I can't speak for JFK, but it definitely snowed here on 4/23 between about 10 and 10:30 AM. We had pea-sized hail on the 21st. I have some video for 4/23, but also used the snowfall as an excuse for this post on my business IG (which features an unrelated May snow photo):

I recall frost on the cartops around May 20 -22 sometime in the late 80s or 90s, but it didn't seem to damage any vegetation at the time. I wouldn't use that as a reason to wait the extra 2 weeks.

Ditto. Maybe 97 for me on ne.weather. Hard to remember for certain as I wasn't even born yet.

Here are the coldest May days at my location since 1996. We've hit 32 in May twice (5/1/2008, 5/14/1996). Sub 40 has been rare since 2008 but was common before 2008. 2019 42 5/13+ 2018 43 5/1 2017 40 5/4 2016 41 5/9 2015 39 5/3+ 2014 42 5/3 2013 40 5/15+ 2012 43 5/12 2011 42 5/6 2010 41 5/10 2009 40 5/19 2008 32 5/1, 39 5/20 2007 38 5/8+ 2006 41 5/24 2005 36 5/4+ 2004 37 5/5 2003 36 5/5 2002 36 51, 38 5/22 2001 37 5/8+ 2000 36 5/1 1999 39 5/15+ 1998 35 5/14 1997 37 5/8 1996 32 5/14 + also occured earlier in the month