May 2025 Obs/Discussion

[weatherwiz]

I may relocate inside...maybe the sun makes in appearance in the next hour but its not pleasant outside.

[ineedsnow]

sun just poked out should warm quick now

[weathafella]

Tip-I don’t feel your implication of dank socked in (ostensibly via a back door) is applicable.  Even when overcast temps easily moved into the upper 60s.  Now as the sun breaks out, we should end up a solid +10 on the daily max.

[CoastalWx]

Tippy butt bangin' done here. sun out and pushing 70+

[Cyclone-68]

Someone else posted this here a year or two ago..One of the most insane clips I’ve ever seen:

 

 

[powderfreak]

66/55 up here… different vibe than the dews in the 10s yesterday.

[CoastalWx]

7 minutes ago, Cyclone-68 said:

Someone else posted this here a year or two ago..One of the most insane clips I’ve ever seen:

 

 

I still think the 6/1/11 event that evening was the best night show I've ever seen. Just constant flickering and lots of close CGs. My old co-worker who chases in the Plains called it OKC lightning. Said the best he's seen around here. Knocked out power for the Bruins Stanley cup game lol. I think it was game 1. 

[Damage In Tolland]

Sunny hot and Dewey out there. We wipe, we love 

[Chrisrotary12]

HRRR pretty insistent on a storm along MA/NH border later today.

[H2Otown_WX]

5 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

Probably not. Is it ever a chase day in SNE?

6/1/11 and 6/8/11?

[dendrite]

Should break into the sun within an hour. In the meantime, 52.7° and overcast. 

[CoastalWx]

13 minutes ago, H2Otown_WX said:

6/1/11 and 6/8/11?

Ok once in a generation.

[tamarack]

36 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

I still think the 6/1/11 event that evening was the best night show I've ever seen. Just constant flickering and lots of close CGs. My old co-worker who chases in the Plains called it OKC lightning. Said the best he's seen around here. Knocked out power for the Bruins Stanley cup game lol. I think it was game 1. 

About 6 weeks later (Mid-July) we were visiting family at DEC and near sunset on Saturday a storm passed maybe 6-8 miles to our south.  Most frequent flashes I ever hope to see - 100/minute plus - and the thunder was like a drum roll thanks to distance/frequency.  Later that evening another storm dumped 3" at the kids' place in 90 minutes; lots of thunder but nothing like the earlier one.  Next morning at church folks were exclaiming about the light show - impressed even the locals.

[CoastalWx]

73/63

[Cyclone-68]

50 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

I still think the 6/1/11 event that evening was the best night show I've ever seen. Just constant flickering and lots of close CGs. My old co-worker who chases in the Plains called it OKC lightning. Said the best he's seen around here. Knocked out power for the Bruins Stanley cup game lol. I think it was game 1. 

Yup that and the Aug 10th 2000 nocturnal event..Sad that only two in 25 years stand out lol 

[H2Otown_WX]

Torch!

[Typhoon Tip]

1 hour ago, weathafella said:

Tip-I don’t feel your implication of dank socked in (ostensibly via a back door) is applicable.  Even when overcast temps easily moved into the upper 60s.  Now as the sun breaks out, we should end up a solid +10 on the daily max.

Well thankfully ...this is what I said:

"We may actually scour out prior to the real warm front moving through over the course of the next several hours ... but, if that happens the high intense sun will then process the shit out of the prefrontal inversion and we may see a "frontal leap" up to a bicycle ride S of Brian where it stalls until next spring ..."

Which is exactly what happened, bold.   Brian might be hosed though hopefully   

The last hour we went from 62 to 74 here and probably we still have a shot at the upper 70s given to heating at this time of year lasting until 4 oclock,

[Torch Tiger]

1 hour ago, Cyclone-68 said:

Someone else posted this here a year or two ago..One of the most insane clips I’ve ever seen:

 

 

yeah I posted that, not sure if others did.  Those storms were absolutely wild, only times I saw lightning like that in New England was the 2000 supercell and 6/20/95

[HoarfrostHubb]

Definitely spiking.  Cool looking temp graph. You can see when the line of thunderstorms went through 

[DavisStraight]

2 hours ago, weatherwiz said:

I may relocate inside...maybe the sun makes in appearance in the next hour but its not pleasant outside.

I went from a cool 53 this morning and wore a jacket to 75 with some sun.

[weatherwiz]

Just now, DavisStraight said:

I went from a cool 53 this morning and wore a jacket to 75 with some sun.

its amazing out now...took a while but we got there. 

[HoarfrostHubb]

1 minute ago, Torch Tiger said:

yeah I posted that, not sure if others did.  Those storms were absolutely wild, only times I saw lightning like that in New England was the 2000 supercell and 6/20/95

I recall an early 1990s storm like that when I was in Newport RI.  Maybe 1992 or so?  Constant strobing.  

[weatherwiz]

That is a long area of watches

[CoastalWx]

13 minutes ago, Cyclone-68 said:

Yup that and the Aug 10th 2000 nocturnal event..Sad that only two in 25 years stand out lol 

There’s others but I mean the big boys. I don’t get off on Wiz type storms.

[Torch Tiger]

Just now, HoarfrostHubb said:

I recall an early 1990s storm like that when I was in Newport RI.  Maybe 1992 or so?  Constant strobing.  

Yeah I remember a few pretty good lightning events on the Cape in the 80's and 90's. one may have been 7/10/89, had pea size hail for 30 minutes and wind too

[Cyclone-68]

5 minutes ago, Torch Tiger said:

yeah I posted that, not sure if others did.  Those storms were absolutely wild, only times I saw lightning like that in New England was the 2000 supercell and 6/20/95

Thank you for making me aware of this. This and video of the tornado approaching the guy in the window are two of the most incredible things on the web to me 

[Torch Tiger]

3 minutes ago, Cyclone-68 said:

Thank you for making me aware of this. This and video of the tornado approaching the guy in the window are two of the most incredible things on the web to me 

at 3:33 in that video, you can hear the charge build up like 5 seconds before the strike.  it's insane

[weatherwiz]

One of the best lightning displays I think I saw was I want to say April of 2002...though it may have been May. It happened on a Sunday. I was in New Britain at my grandparents there and we had a nasty storm roll through during the afternoon which produced 1.5" hail (still largest hail I've seen). Then back in West Hartford that night, we had a second round...and the lighting with this was insane...just non stop flashing as the storms approached and lots of CGs and loud thunder. 

There was one too (I can't even remember the year but I think it was August. Had to be summer of 2007 I think). My friend came down from New Hampshire randomly and we drove around the part of West Hartford towards the Reservoir where its elevated and the amount of CGs...that was actually scary stuff. It was just like gunshot sounds. Literally was like the CGs were striking next to us. 

[CoastalWx]

76/64. Ahhhhh.

[weatherwiz]

This is so much better than winter. Winter is only enjoyable if it is snowing but outside of it snowing, what is there to like about cloudy skies with low sun angle and temperatures in the 20's or 30's (or colder) and wind?