EastCoast NPZ

As far as I'm concerned anything over 45F is spring, and anything over 70F is summer.

A few 50s thrown into the mix would be even better.

I agree. I'd gladly trade a cold, snowy winter for a -7F, wet summer w/o a single 90F high. Granted the latter is pure fantasy and physically not possible in these parts.

Yep. Same. Drought posts will be coming soon.

The forecast for here is between 1/10 and 1/4 inch. That's very likely to result in a T.

Good. That's 3 days too much.

.40" over 24 hours. Came down in buckets.

.30". This one was a total dud. Not nearly enough of what was needed. And it doesn't look like a good chance of anything meaningful for at least 7 days... and 90s waiting in the wings, apparently. Misery. Pure misery.

Let it rain. Pollen yesterday was brutal.

2014 was the best weather year I can remember. As you noted, there were several continental air intrusions that summer. Not to mention a great winter to-boot (starting in Dec 2013).

Oh yeah. Breezy, refreshingly cool/dry air-mass. High temps in the low 70s. People in sweatshirts and huddled under blankets for the fireworks. Lows dipped into the 40s that night out here. I remember actually being chilly that late-afternoon (in the shade) at a cook-out. DPs in the low/mid 40s. It felt like October. It was simply amazing, and every-bit as rare as a HECS. In fact, I'd argue it was more rare, and I enjoyed it every bit as much.

IMO, the best event, and by a very-wide margin, was the July 4th Canadian air-mass of 2014. That was straight out of my dreams. I would rate that weather day as one of my top-5 weather events of any type in my lifetime.

30F for the low. Gorgeous day from start to finish. Pollen starting to build again, though; need another rain storm.

28.4F according to nearest PWS here. Calm, brisk. Perfect.

Periods of flurries this afternoon. Impressive cold for mid-April. Definitely enjoying the cool weather after last week's furnace. I thought I'd grown sick of chilly, windy weather, but then last weekend happened and I was reminded I liked that a whole lot less.