Typhoon Tip

I just need Sunday to end up on the fairer side - can you work that out ?

mm...I also wouldn't trust the NAM with those metrics. It's been vacillating between completely cloud and mostly sunny for today, for example.

Dry micro bursts ?

Whenever I see one of these alerts down there I'm always struck with this notion that the region in question is really in a constant state of meso-beta ( between synoptic and meso ) scale circulation, already. Like a static, if not quantifiably rotating field relative to the surrounding medium, certainly intense potential vorticy. It could be a sunny day with no jet streak moving over, no DP gradient fairness, ...that region still slowly turns around itself. Just a matter of whether it gets focused. This is going to be really bunner comment here ...but, I've seen this watching slowly whirling leaves around the lee sides of buildings and when a gust comes over top ... it provides a wonder natural laboratory. The slowly whirling leaves suddenly contract into a rapidly spinning column as/while the gust is roaring over from over the building and passes over that same region. It's really the same thing in principle. We dawn with "slowly turning leaves" down there, and wait for some jet streak to come over top the "rockies building" - it passes over, triggers a lift, stretches the vortex which contracts it's diameter ... and away it columnates. It's like if we lived on a world that didn't have water, there'd be tornadoes there anyway -they just wouldn't be connected to any thunderstorm CBS. heh interesting.

The mood is down in here today ( apparently ... heh ), because in being slaved to photo-electric effect, the brain circuitry misses the direct sunlight thru the warm air we were promised on people's faces this morning. If it were 64 already with warm sun corpuscular rays beaming thru the morning budding trees of May and all that, we'd be spinning things more optimistically - understood. It could be ... vastly worse. May 2005 makes this look like a Hawaiian get away.

You can go ahead and expand this perspective into the total arc of human evolution. Climate has been a modulating force on migration pathways and establishment depots during all three major migration events out of Africa. This is known yup. No one asked me but the only thing stopping me from going elsewhere at this point is loneliness - ha... I don't want to to commit to any such venture, by my self, and have to start over at my age. Interestingly, there is this new reverse aging technology. Apparently it's working in mice. Like they've cracked the code of death. They've taken these mice that are geriatric, and reverted them back to svelte and virile. Solving problems and getting phone numbers from the babes in the other cages. If this were somehow scaled up to humans? Yeah, given another 70 years of good looks, intelligence, and hot girls, might make it worth the while Lol. Most of my erstwhile life I was on the tolerant side of this New England's time stealing season known as spring. I was tolerant because I had a kind of tacit agreement with nature: you get to violate my will to live in the spring, because you're giving us big winters. It was a willing trade off. Besides, albeit rare, some years would turn balmy, early, and stay that way. And usually, July is still coming whether spring liked it or not - we'd get at least a couple of months of that 80+deg, golf and beach nostalgia. But lately? Winters are a root-canal, while summers are becoming too submerged in DPs mixed with "continental B.O." - I don't know what you call that polluted miasma we've been getting in recent summers, but it's causing these black mold blooms like red tide in the house. Summers are becoming eerie. And springs seem to eat later and later into summer. The deal is off! Taking time away from higher sun angle time of the year and eating into the warm season, while our winters are increasing sucky. That's another reason why people migrated from the Brit Empire ... taxation became unfair. ... Without winters? what's the point. It's a good thing the climate isn't changing I keep getting post cards and cold calls, and texts from strangers offering to buy my house, as is, ...dinner plate departure, for cash - meaning you drop what you're doing and just give them the keys for X amount of dollars. Literally, 'no cleaning necessary. Leave the furniture ...', etc. A lot of people are getting those around me, too. I guess most of the population doesn't give a shit what the weather's doing because I'd-a thunk a climate frustration triggered diaspora would lower real-estate demand I dunno. Point is, I can probably get out here if it got bad enough - but where to go? Cloudy, 53 .... supposed to be 71 but it's cloudier than modeled as a last minute adjustment - go figure.

The difference between today and tomorrow will be among the more impressive single day changes we've seen in quite some time, pan-regional. Especially in your lower els that escape the fog capped valley inversion - which I think the wind will be establishing a S bias in the Notch. No one's really talking about that as it's a non-injurious notable but 46 to 76 isn't out of the question say St Johnbury region, and that's true for down our way too. It's 49 here mi casa this hour, steady R- Can't find a model lower than 76 here when factoring in the typical 2-meter sounding slope. This is one of the deals where the whole system sensibly is more like a warm front, even though a cf clears the region prior to dawn. It's one of my personal labeled type of system, more common in autumn and spring - where the cold is on the front side only. Only when this does it is spring, you get the sun booster to really bring the point home.

It's subtle . .. but, the 12z Euro's trying to normalize that D5 - 10 pattern. It's got a ways to go but it's not as obnoxious with the 500 mb height synopsis as it was in prior runs. Wednesday may have some interesting convection with that entangled warm boundary/weak cyclone deal. Nice theta e pooling in CT with a strong temperature gradient in that vicinity, with a modest mid level wind max/right exit jet region coming in over S surface winds.

And that's actually better than the 00z and 06z in the sequential order. I mean ... it's been getting better - imho. But still is above the vomit threshold - ha. One upshot is that it's keeping the pattern progressive while that +PNA trough spends that 5 days in there. We're not stalling lows in the area. I'm also noticing that we aren't pulling as much "blue line" S of the border as much as prior runs. Maybe it's bad pattern and at the same time the model's admitting that the sun is hot now. jeez

Getting two days, back-to-back, above 70 F in this -NAO relaying into a +PNA is actually a pretty fantastic achievement relative to that predicament. Beyond that, NWS is right ... probably 5 to 6 consecutive days of BN. How much, or if we can pull a 'normal' day out of that stretch will come down ( as usual ) to the amount of sun. The Euro variant would be on the uglier side of a frontal boundary, with cyclic waves running out along or S of LI Each one enhancing light rain and raw E drift to the air. Couped up cabin fever at a time of the year whence that is clearly stealing what precious time we have for summer in this godforsaken cold dumpster region of the continent... This is entry into solar maximum week ... From now through August 8 we are getting what we're going to get from old sol - I'd rather not spend a week of it rotting but to each is his or her own. That all said, I suspect the Euro is over doing it with those thermal profiles S of ~60 N across the continent after D 7 or 8 ... that looks like typical model trying to eclipse the season shit we see in that time range during spring modeling season. For that matter, there some possibility these models are all wholesale over doing that L/W rangle in that time range.

Be careful though. We may not cleanly exit the shits like that. The PNA is being forecast to flip modes into positive in the Euro's recent ensembles - fwiw. The GEFs are bit tamer... rising to neutral index, but the Euro brings back February. This can be seen both in the numerical telecons, but also in the larger hemispheric synoptic mean. If it has legs we shift away from the -NAO shits, right into PNA diarrhea. Models do tend to be over amplified as a standing correction ... Pretty much everything they're handling beyond D 4 ..5 ..etc, tends to prove magnified. Factoring that in might bring a more realistic/tamer GFS solution that much back from the brink of disastrous misery. Suddenly some redemption, etc. By arithmetic, that would require a big correction from the Euro, though. This is ensemble mean, mind you, at 200 hours Anyway ... have to see if the PNA is being overly baked by the Euro. This kind of game of relaying from one rapist to the next hemisphere has been a spring plight around here going back years, on top of a climate that is also questionably tolerable to begin with. Therefore, it fits the multi-seasonal trend? so to speak. It just makes the idea feel right ha

Ooh. that's an Arachnophobic Succullotta ... very dangerous. Don't mess with those!

Between my childhood and ~ 2000 ... I never saw snow in May. I've seen it now 10 times since 2000. That's what I mean ? I'm not refuting what you're say, re the four seasons of New England: Summer, Autumn, Winter, Butt Bang Like I said... it's hard to parse out which is which in terms of quota in the question of 'how much of this is just our climate vs being exaggerated by CC' - speculative on this latter point, of course. But just imho I don't think the hockey stick climate acceleration in the last 25 years, vs the sudden frequency shift in odd-ball late cold so pernicious that we have busted virga cu packing pellet flurries like it's Thanks Giggedy in May, is merely accidental.

Nothing will ever beat 2005 May hahaha.

Man, this is may be a record breaking BD - if there were such a tracking... in terms of mass alone this thing is HUGE https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms=regional-eastcoast-02-24-1-100-1&checked=map&colorbar=undefined

It's deep enough in the atmosphere that it may actually partially clear from the NE.. There are clear patches over the lower GOM region on sat. They, and the patches of Labrador shit streak strata are en masse moving fairly quickly SW. So best hope is to have one of these pass over one's region. It's about all there can be mustered that is redeeming. I think this is CC related. These May putrid patterns are part of the spring blocking thing that's been happening with increasing frequency over the past 20 years. It's very complicated ... As the winter seasonal velocities start to come down, and the wave lengths start to shorten, closing off high latitude ridges is naturally going to occur anyway, but we're seeing a preponderance of it that's more than that. It's probably impossible to parse out the natural tendency from the exaggerated tendency, in this case.

I suppose 'as is' ... but, it looks fragile. we'll see.

mm fragile. let's not have any faith in that, either. just my opinion, but we should set the bar pretty low for a learning disabled hemisphere Just long years of experience talking with never winning in the fight against these sort of abysmal spring plague patterns - the worst of all possible outcomes verifies the vast majority of times. In other words, something will emerge to f-up Tuesday too.

Monday and Tuesday don't look like decent days to me. May be just my preference, but when the boundary is suppressed to barely underneath our latitude with waves rollin' along it... we're not getting balmy buds of May weather

5 Mays in a row defined as having to scrape decent moments, if not a day, only once out of each p.o.s. week ...

If it stays overcast, it won’t be that warm

You actually can see the back door on high resolution radar as it’s sweeping southwest through the area should be entering north eastern Connecticut over the next hour overtaking Kevin mid evening… Not sure what it’ll mean for tomorrow’s temperatures again it’ll come down to how much sun

It’s all gone tomorrow

seems like it's been a reenforcing BD every 18 hours for 6 days now

It's not a bad 'global vision' yeah. I could see that. Unfortunately, that still would be too late for a lot of fragile species that cannot adapt ( down to evolutionary genetics!) quickly enough, thus will go extinct. I mean this is already happening - not supposition on this point. We are in mass extinction when expanding to geological time scales. Anyway, it may also not take PETM to lurch and trigger vastly more injurious consequences than are foreseen. In fact, I'd almost count on that. Intuitively we don't need 5 deg before crazy enough stuff starts happening within that uncertainty manifold. Enough so to enforce population correcting in our species - even if people think we can exist on this world in a vacuum. The funny thing about that op-ed there... birthing rates, globally, are plummeting already. Not sure if this sociodynamic randomness, or some sort of biological aspect with pollution or both... I suspect both. "Millennials" aren't interested; a one generation distinction but it's broader than that. Meanwhile, fertility in males is falling at alarming rates.