weatherwiz

Here we are through 05/23

It is nice to see what the sky looks like again without smoke.

Springfield is really weird with prices. I know it depends on station/area but some stations in Springfield are rather cheap (relatively speaking) and some stations are sky high. There is a Citgo and a Shell maybe a mile apart and the Citgo is like $.15 to $.20 cheaper. That just seems absurd to me.

It's like as soon as you get used to the lower price...boom its back up I think I paid $3.77 in Windsor Locks yesterday and I was just about on empty so just over $40 to fill up. I feel terrible for those that take double that to fill up.

And there's nothing to really prevent it from happening :/ Oh for sure...but this cycle has seen to be going on for at least a few months I've noticed. Now my sample size is small (basing on a few gas stations in Springfield then down in CT but the past 3-4 months it seems like we'll get a drop in gas prices (closing in on $3 at times and even a bit below) and then within 2 days its up $.30 again...then in a few weeks it will drop into the 3.10's then within 3-4 days be into the 3.40's...and each drop is higher then the previous drop and each max higher then the last.

I like to think of spring in two ways 1. Get us to consistent hot/humid weather 2. Then get active with convection I can tolerate boring April/May so long its a great transition to warm weather...but I'm really storm starved right now. I hate seeing the signal moving into the second week of June, but I'm placing little confidence in that range at this point. I'm hoping a lot of these inconsistences we're seeing is a signal of a pattern change, though I'm also fearing it's due to just anomalous departures within the pattern.

Thanks...figured moving into summer blend had something to do with it...which I always found to be a bunch of crap and just a reason to drive prices up but what do I know. It's just so frustrating...there is absolutely zero reason for prices to be this high...absolutely none whatsoever.

Anyone who follows gas/oil WTF has been going on. Gas will drop like $.15 in a few week span and then all of a sudden jump up $.30 in two days.

Only difference is now its 60's and rain instead of 35-37

Better come with some severe threats. On vacation June 3-18 for storm chasing so SOMETHING BETTER HAPPEN

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Must be wild being there

It will be interesting to see if Super Typhoon Mawar has any influence on the downstream evolution of the pattern over the next 7-10 days.

Going to be some pretty intense downpours under that. Even some gusty winds (30-40 mph) and some lightning.

Guess we should see some nice downpours move across the region tomorrow, though probably weakening with southeast advancement. Tomorrow is the PERFECT reason as to why not to use extended range QPF products.

ahhh yes...it was Holy Cross that recorded it.

90's and 00's definitely offered more widespread region-wide events. We just can't seem to do good squall lines anymore. The kind that develop right ahead of the cold front and then move across the entire region. That's what I miss most growing up in the 90's...but it always sucked to see lines completely fall apart around Hartford and then rejuvenate east of the River. While it was the 1995 derecho that got me interested in severe weather it was constantly watching squall lines fall apart which got me into wanting to study thunderstorms...it used to drive me nuts.

Yeah it's been pretty meh overall in terms of higher end events outside of the February 2016 (was it the 13th or 17th? I remember it was a Wednesday), 5/15/18, 8/27/20 there hasn't been much in the way of higher end setups or events.

Gusting to 104 mph for straightline winds is pretty wild and all the more wild the time it happened. I think even BDL gusted to around 70 mph. My sister called us screaming b/c she thought it was a tornado and not many (older) homes in Windsor Locks have basements. The mid-to-late 90's into the early 2000's were quite kind to us with higher-end svr.

Yeah it was. I remember watching TWC, local news, and even on the radio they were talking about tornado potential on Saturday.

I can't image us ever seeing a high risk again unless we had a classic derecho setup. That last week of May and first week of June was wild. June 2 had a pretty prolific tornado outbreak just to our southwest from Ohio/PA into the mid-Atlantic. I think there were over 50-60 tornado reports that day. Also...look at the size of that moderate...from NH southwest to KY

That was some weekend. Had severe weather that Friday with that front stalling to our south which lifted back north as a warm front that Sunday morning. That Sunday was wild...heck, the Red Sox crushed the Yankees too...I think they scored like 10 runs in the 3rd inning (actually almost kind of blew the game). But that late Sunday afternoon/evening...wow. I'm 99.999% sure I saw a funnel cloud, but it was dark out so can't confirm but my dad and I were looking out the window straight ahead and there was this super low cloud that was visible with the lightning.

The best Memorial Day weekend ever was 1998

No different then when December begins and we all look for and want snow threats even though December isn’t historically a “snowy month”.

Hopefully after Memorial Day we can start cooking up some severe threats