Typhoon Tip

22 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Still raining.  Make it stop.

If I were a curious god …

Just for shits and giggles, I’d expose the entire region inside WI-NC-E QUE to the power of 10 suns …

… sit back with popcorn and a coke and watch this planetary scaled turd of cyclonic stench, which clearly has developed its own deviant sentience at this point  ( think tied up in shack by serial rapist …) try and survive against a yato yato yato -scaled thermal deluge

1 minute ago, dryslot said:

Going to need some good weather after this onslaught the last several days, Make it stop.

Imagine it 44 F by day … 40 by night, with winds gusting to 48 mph in driving rain that mixes with sleet over interior elevations, lasting for two days. When exits … the temp doesn’t change.  Drizzle under deep murk persists … three days later. The Nor’easter reduxes, undistinguished … followed by a nearly identical total cycle of reprieve to redux event. 

Unrelenting … for three weeks. No exceptions 

That was three weeks in May, 2005. 

Compared to that … we just “suffered” a relative utopia 

Weekend still looks dandy ... In fact, the Euro's lowered typical cloud height RH levels even further.  Both it and the GFS depicted unilateral flow from 925 to 300 mb levels on a NW trajectory, bumping over the terrain and down-sloped throughout all areas, with 925 mb between +10 and 12C. 

2-meter's would likely make 20 to 23C under that provided the sun works out.  As is in the Euro, borderline but would likely be 80% sun with the down slope drying. So in every day terms ... 72 to 74.  Winds are very light, too.

10 hours ago, tunafish said:

Neat

 

And with that, we've brought you the severe weather season in New England ...  Please join us again next year at this time, when we'll behold ... the skull knock riveting debate over the difference between pea -sized hail and grapple

28 minutes ago, ma blizzard said:

ha I wish .. not quite pea size

Same here ...  peas along side some excessive rain rates... only lasted 4 minutes.   Single rumble of thunder... 

3 minutes ago, ma blizzard said:

thunder and bb sized hail

bb = "Base  Ball" sized hail ??!!!!!

holy shit

4 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

Overall May looking like #noheat

There's still hope, though.  Mid month, based on signals emanating out of the Pacific/tropical dispersion stuff.   

I mean if that's your bag.  I don't personally want it "hot" - who does...  But folks should bear in mind, we had a signal similar to that a month ago, at the beginning of April ... And we ended up popping the 90 cherry two days back-to-back at some sites.

That was more of a 'synoptic heat burst' but ...they tend to nest in warming signals span of time.  That's a bit different than a wholesale warm pattern look, though.

The deal at mid month isn't fantasy - whether it emerges will come down to whether there are other forces compensating ..blah blah blah... 

At minimum ... it seems that this weekend is like graduating seasonal change to the next level.  We can certainly have days crumbled in this 55F cyclonic rubble ... all summer long in this POS summer climate up here.  But sans spanning a whole week, and just lowering frequency of this kind of shit seems to want to begin this weekend.

3 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Furnace on its way 

We'll see...

I'd be happy for this outlook effort just to be consistently albeit modestly above normal.   That's not really even subjectively 'furnace' but I suppose it's up to the user.. heh.

Furnace is a heat wave now that we're into May.  If the mid latitude telecons start to reflect this Pac dispersion shit than we might have the conversation.

We also have to be leery of another a 'synoptic heat burst' ... which is different than a wholesale pattern change and can happen in somewhat isolation.

Here you go, Kev'

Starting to see semblances of the western/tropical Pacific forcing. I've been discussing it for the past week while in wait of this type of model depiction. "Should" see more of this essence emerge. 

Former Pac forcing is a legit powerful observed factor, and I've been suspecting that it's just not yet ( to date) been very well sampled - therefore ... not ingesting into the initialization framework for the global guidance sources.  But, we see now Phase 3--> 4 is occurring and I don't think this solution below is a merely coincidence.  It is in fact, right on schedule.

Like I said... the 2nd week of May - that's the way I'm still leaning for now.  Which isn't that far away so.   

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

For this spring that would be scattered showers and mid 50s.

we could carry that attitude every New England April/spring for that matter -

Not the place for it ... but a quick comment on the Bruins.  I frankly thought they were in trouble back whence they split the first 2 games at home to allow 1-1 going back south.

mm... that didn't sit well with me.  I lowered my expectations at that point in time. Admittedly ... there was optimistic when they got a 3-1 lead.   

But then I was summarily checked out, feeling as though the whole thing was just as predictable - we knew...  as the 2004 ALCS debacle. Same exact sensation - we knew it was over when the Bruins lost game 5 ... Wasn't going to matter what the win/loss record was at the time. The rest was academic. 

So.. being psycho-babble prepared as I was, I wasn't terribly offended or even a little bit surprised by last night's destiny.

1 hour ago, greenmtnwx said:

We use only organic product, bone meal, etc. I know what you mean though, but in suburbia I’ll take a nice green lawn for four or five months. 

Yeah it's not me necessarily either.  As in not my credit. 

I was reading this whole thing about how they create these ecological islands of starvation for a lot of species that are already in trouble because of climate change -related population destabilization. From flowering species to pollenating insects, flora and fauna. 

So I guess the new thing is rock gardens with flowering plant types interspersed ...  

The focus wasn't the fertilization chemistry so much, but fertilizer is a whole nother problem.  Yup.   The era of Roundup is basically archaic and actually just dumb in any generation.  

I suppose it all stands to reason. I mean when we peer over an untouched wilderness scape,  we don't see that look for a reason.  Diversity = health in the ecology.

4 minutes ago, greenmtnwx said:

Been wet and cold with probably 5” on rain in the lowland home front. Lawns are green though. 

Look at that 1980s standardized ecologically toxic lawn...  lol -

been reading about how bad those are for the environment.  Interesting

They're probably just gnats ...

Populous seemed to start referring to general gnat nuisance as black flies some 20 years ago and it's not always the case. There are a lot of black flies, too ... but there are bigger populations of different gnats.  Those swarms that make little personally owned clouds that follow you around behind your head when your walking in spring and early summer are likely other gnat species.  They like sometimes rattle around the orifice of your ear opening?  Could be a black fly, but its just as likely harmless albeit annoying gnats.

What I hate are those dear fly that do blood recons in dive bombing mobius loops

GGEM is 4 straight days of straight cool rain.

Euro at least offers "parole" hearings.  If the rain bomb Sunday overnight scoots along, we may dry slot Monday and find some mercy in there, but... the cold core - which may also be lagging behind seasonal forcing in the guidance some ... - then settles through for a butt- banged mid week.   Thing is, that caveat about seasonal forcing...sometimes things settle out better with those deep mid level deals in May - not always though.  Ha, how did they feel about that under 20" in 1976?   Trick is knowing which way it'll correct.  More often, the specter of it softens some as the mid range nears, however.

We'll see.  I frankly don't mind personally if we get 3 or 4" of water ... then pattern changes circa May 7-10.  There are big signals that the latter may take place, that the general model systems may not yet be detecting.

10 minutes ago, jbenedet said:

We 60 yesterday; we 70 today. Take ‘em up.
 

Classic best weather preceding the worst of weather.

The anomalous surface high responsible for it all.

It is... (bold), and it almost seems endemic to New England, too. I've experienced change from San Francisco to Chicago in my time, and that sort of coldest before it warms, and warmest before it cools happening almost at the seam of the change is more noticeable around this region of the continent.

I think it has to do with barriers associated land-air interface.  The cordillera west, holds cold till the last minute, and then the other way, once the gradient finally works down to the coastal plain, it actually strengths the mean WCB response.   ...hypothesis... 

But no where else I've been is that behavior so well defined.  I've seen a 52 F murk behind a strong BD in May actually find its way to a min of 49 F the morning the skies break and the warm front suddenly mixes through, and then it's 79 by 5pm, more times than I can to count.

I realize we have a 'sea ice -related' thread, but this isn't related to sea ice.  It has to do with oceanic temperatures, in general...

A fascinating user interface graphic: https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/

I'm sure for y'all that pick and probe through the web and research matters this is already known?  either way. 

It's referenced in an article over at Phys.org, that also conveys some weirdness that seems prequel to alarm and criticality - but we'll see on the latter.

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-earth-hot-sudden-ocean-spike.html

It’s April. 

Watch in 2 weeks there'll be a ridge node approaching 600 non-hydrostats right where that asteroid crater is

24 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

2021....I think the real bad day was Saturday 7/3 but 7/4 was only marginally better and had that "late day high" where it feels semi-useless because most of the morning/midday hours were still rotting in the 50s to near 60.

It was the worst subjective 4th holiday sensible weather spanning all my time on Earth, period. 

Now … I’m hoping that just atones to rareness and not some new delicious peregrination of summers in a CC thing going forward …

6 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Yeah if I have the means when my kids are out of the house years from now, I'd love to have a place to go to between about April 1st and Memorial Day....not much redeeming here during that time. I do enjoy the brief few days each spring when you have just leafed out (not 100% but maybe 75%) and everything has that awesome almost electric green color....before it finally goes to the deeper green that stays around until August when it starts its demise (first the tired leathery look and then finally some hints of color in the swamp maples).

I agree with y'all for the most part.  But, I'd be willing to risk May ... maybe May 10 as my return date?

2005 is exceedingly rare... Hell, if we really had our druthers, we're rich enough not to waste time, and can set our return date based on telecons and model trends haha.   But, usually, if it's ass bangin' after May 10, the summer's likely to screw anyway so may as well come back. 

Like what was the 4th of July weekend recently that was like 44 F ... for warm/summer enthusiasts, that's the winter of 2022-2023

5 hours ago, powderfreak said:

It’s like some parallel universe when TauntonBlizz starts advocating a glass half full outlook on weather instead of half empty.

Sounds like everyone is sort of talking about the same weather though, just interpreting it differently. 55-60F with brief showers/cores mixed with sun can both feel bad when raining but then a couple hours of sun at 60F also feels quite nice this time of year.

Its not beach weather but it’s also April. Could easily be cooler/nastier for an extended period of time. Probably rooted in perspective.

36F and dense fog here this morning, not beautiful, ha.

Entirely actually ... heh.  That's what it always is about, relative dissenting opinions being relatively offended... haha. 

But yeah, ... I've made no illusions about my own feelings with this particular season of the year. 

We have to understand ...there are in fact 5 seasons in New England: Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring, and Rectal chamber.   The latter of which happens to ballast along the April span of time..but can lapse either direction...   And just like the other 4 seasons, Rectum can be more or less stinky depending on that year's rendition.   We've had Rectums that are seamless to spring because they were almost tolerable.  We've had other years, like May 2005 ...when Rectum proved that God himself is a shameless sociopathic sinner...

This year...mm, I'd say so far it's on the lighter side of the spectrum of funk.  It's not a bed of roses ( ever )...but at least we are not doing push-ups in dogshit.

(I'm obviously joking around)...

I work out everyday.  I do a mix of machine work, running, then cycling, along a 3 day rotation and then start over.   So I lied just there...I actually end up taking two days off a week for rest.  It's 3 on by 1 off.   The treadmill in the winter was really getting on my f'ing nerves!  My lower back and hamstrings just refuse to take to it...  despite one night a week doing yoga with a married hottie ( which has its own frustration..). 

These 59 F afternoons the last two weeks have been really quite ideal for doing 5 mi, which has been better on my hammies and back.  I'd really rather the days be 82/48 utopia with hot chicks and stuff ... but all things being (typically) oddly unequal in our Mar-Mays, there's been some reasons to appreciate.  It's got some redemption to it in other words? 

Weatherwiz, ...it won't take that deep into May - most likely....  Strong tropical forcing signal is emerging in all guidance sources and derivatives, and we've sans the La Nina firewall... So, the anticipation is that said forcing will in fact contribute to R-wave distribution.  It is more likely that the operational models a merely not detecting that forcing just yet. 

4 hours ago, dendrite said:

April is overall trash 90-95% of the time. Seasons in seasons.

case closed...

Here you go Kevin...   CPC's seeing it now too -

...
• Atmospheric responses associated with the long-lived La Nina continue to wane, as the MJO
is expected to be the dominant driver of tropical convective anomalies, and eventually provide
an environment conducive for tropical cyclone (TC) development in the Indian Ocean and
West Pacific later in May.
• Extratropical linkages become less clear during boreal spring, however there is some support
for Maritime Continent MJO events leading to increased mid-level heights and above-normal
temperatures over the central and eastern U.S. during May