May 2025 Obs/Discussion

[Modfan2]

23 minutes ago, metagraphica said:

Absolutely pouring again down here.

Looks like you might be the Jack spot 

[dendrite]

1 hour ago, wxeyeNH said:

42.8F  Light rain.

On May 25 2012  I recorded 3.1" of thundersnow within about a 2 hour period.  I believe the temperature was 33F during that event.  That was the latest snow I have recorded.

We will not repeat that tonight but at my elevation of 1100 feet it will be interesting to see if I can manage some mangled flakes.  Any guesses?  What do you think Brian?

Gun to head I’ll say yes. Even if it’s 35-36° paws. 
 

I bet you were colder than that in 2012 too because of your station siting. 

[Typhoon Tip]

16 minutes ago, dryslot said:

Could've used this pattern back in Jan-Feb with all these cutoff slow moving systems in April and May.

I don't believe the recent winter hemisphere's would physically allow that to happen.   This is happening now because the flow is slower ...everywhere.  The entire manifold of the hemisphere still has energetics, and because the flow foot is lower, this allows for curvatures at smaller radii

It's complex but we have to understand atmospheric motion in x, y and z coordinate system.  The z is the omega term ( upward vs downward vertical motion )...  x and y is the direction, w-e-n-s.   When there is only so much uvm velocity available to rotating fields... this limits the amount of mass that can move up for inward moving air.   Tornadoes, for example, rotate so fast because they have shit ton of vertical acceleration moving upwards - stretching the vortex in the vertical effectively speeds it up.  Think figure-skater pulling their arms in, and the spin faster.   Such that cyclonic motion has a relatively constant mass moving in the vertical.   When x - y gradient is large -->  faster flow of wind, but this exceeds the restoring mass moving upward; it can't flow in tighter curved space,  because the mass moving in can't rise any faster.  So instead of conserving the energy in the smaller scales, it ends up lengthening the long wave lengths with lots of jet velocity, and less small space curvatures  - note, I did not say, "no" smaller space curvatures.    We're dealing in offsets here...

In recent years the gradient between ~30 N and 60 N has been extreme. This has power very strong westerlies through the deep tropospheric means.  This has meant faster moving events.  More sheared events.  Event closed lows behavior more like "quasi" closed lows, because they move right along like rolling balls... These are just notable behaviors I'm listing...

[Typhoon Tip]

3 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Gun to head I’ll say yes. Even if it’s 35-36° paws. 
 

I bet you were colder than that in 2012 too because of your station siting. 

Interesting ... 2012 was one of if not the warmest total spring to summer transition years on record - least I thought it was...

[dryslot]

50/41°F, Sun trying to make a rare appearance before the rain arrives.

[metagraphica]

16 minutes ago, Modfan2 said:

Looks like you might be the Jack spot 

I think Stonington, Pawcatuck, Westerly area is going to be the jackpot.  Just a firehose down there.

[WxWatcher007]

95° and sunny here in Vegas

[H2Otown_WX]

Just now, WxWatcher007 said:

95° and sunny here in Vegas

Heavy heavy Bunny Ranch?

[CoastalWx]

Jack will be probably somewhere in SE MA near CF. They will get smoked and are getting smoked.

[WxWatcher007]

11 minutes ago, H2Otown_WX said:

Heavy heavy Bunny Ranch?

My wife may feel some type of way about that  

[ineedsnow]

41.7 so close yet so far

[Ginx snewx]

1 hour ago, Modfan2 said:

Upslope enhancement for the 395 corridor in E CT?

Nice Death band

[ineedsnow]

15 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Nice Death band

dumping under it.. massive drops 

[jlauderdal]

95° and sunny here in Vegas

90 DP 79, really struggling to get convection going... meanwhile you guys get cold rain, bummer

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[CoastalWx]

5 minutes ago, ineedsnow said:

dumping under it.. massive drops 

If there is a chance for catpaws, it's under that. Fat drops mean that. 

[ineedsnow]

1 minute ago, CoastalWx said:

If there is a chance for catpaws, it's under that. Fat drops mean that. 

I think we have to wait until later if we even get anything

[H2Otown_WX]

31 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

My wife may feel some type of way about that  

I don't have a wife and never will (thanks autism) so maybe I'll have to make a trip

[ineedsnow]

hard to tell but maybe some flakes mixing in on this webcam

 

https://franklinpierce.edu/webcam_monadnock/index.html

[SJonesWX]

temp down to 44 off a high of 47.

not quite the way DIT and TKitty drew up their ideal summer day

[ineedsnow]

temp dropping quick under this down to 40.2

[dendrite]

17 minutes ago, ineedsnow said:

hard to tell but maybe some flakes mixing in on this webcam

 

https://franklinpierce.edu/webcam_monadnock/index.html

Def looks like something now.

[CoastalWx]

13 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Def looks like something now.

[CoastalWx]

14 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Def looks like something now.

What their ele?

[CoastalWx]

Pouring and blowing about 30ish now. Nearing 1".

[amarshall]

wind train in my hood

[dendrite]

17 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

What their ele?

I think a little over 1k? Maybe it’s just big drops reflecting the light. 37-38 in that area now.

[dendrite]

[CoastalWx]

It is absolutely pouring and about 35+ now.

[CoastalWx]

Maybe 40 now. Love a good coastal.

[CoastalWx]

Fucking oak dongs clogged my gutters.