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As an example, as the storms approached BOX you could start to see a faint echo representing the gust front/outflow. Conditions were really conducive to forming strong cold pools. and so the leading edge of the wind was approaching Danvers when you wouldn't have seen rain until you got to Newburyport. That's one way to do it. Another is a dry microburst. That is more of a western CONUS thing. You need deep dry air in the lower levels, which evaporates all the precip before it hits the ground. However you still get evaporatively cooled air that accelerates to the ground and can be quite strong. MAF a week or two ago gusted to over 100 mph from a dry microburst.

It's the OFB from that storm that is intersecting the line back by Ware, MA We had a TOR drawn up if that had started looking any better.

Line is intersecting an outflow boundary down around Belchertown/Three Rivers. Might be enough to spin something up.

I'm liking the surges in the line near Thompsonville and Northampton.

Gonna uninstall those ACs for you?

I just did. I had to find my directions to remember the process. You can go years up here without issuing one.

I honestly can't remember the last time I had to issue a watch. I'm always either off or working the radar.

As long as spring is last.

They have. This particular scene is all the better when you find out that it wasn't in the script. He just improvised it.

What do you mean? He's already washed the truck and did a little lawn clean up. Beautiful day to relax on the deck.

5 straight hours of showers at Robin Circle.

I didn't think anyone was calling us out, but I did want to make sure GYX was following my own advice before I started talking about it. Thankfully we no showers up here.

Oh, you aren't topping that without some concession stand EF3 action.

Congrats on your best convection of 2025.

Had to check our forecast before I commented, but this is one of the thought processes that I go through during the warm season. Like two days ago I have no qualms about going "showers likely" but once you get to today I ask myself what public perception is going to be. Are they going to step outside and say it's showering, or it's raining. If it's the latter, I make sure I change the wording from showers to rain. To that end, I almost always go "rain" when PoP is 75% or greater.

We'll see if those instantaneous rates start to tick up any. Right now the embedded stuff is just starting to top 1"/hr, so maybe 0.20" with how fast they are moving.

Feels like we're way ahead up here too. I don't usually see leaves until after our oldest's birthday. But the maples are pushing out some pretty swollen buds now and I can see some green popping out of the peach buds.

I almost did the same tbh.

Asperatis. Still an active area of research, as it's a relatively new cloud classification. The prevailing theory is something along the lines of a stable base layer, with instability just above it leading to the turbulent look but wavy nature of the base.

Beer?

@Damage In Tolland traveling today?

This is a teachable moment for the neighborhood. They all pulled up the driveway stakes 3 weeks ago, and ran the gas down on the snowblowers. Well the resident meteorologist did not pull up the driveway stakes.