May 2025 Obs/Discussion

[dendrite]

12 minutes ago, Torch Tiger said:

can we please have another pure music off-topic thread/dump?  @Stormtracker? 

=)

 

[kdxken]

26 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Widespread hundies

Locusts might be fun. 

"Compared to previous infestations in the region, the 1874 plague was significantly more damaging. The invasion coincided with a record drought in the Midwest and Great Plains, which induced the grasshoppers (estimated at 120 billion to 12.5 trillion) to not only thrive but also to swarm when local vegetation was decimated. The arriving locusts would pile up to over a foot high and ate crops, trees, leaves, grass, wool off sheep, harnesses on horses, paint from wagons, and pitchfork handles. 

 

[dendrite]

3 minutes ago, Torch Tiger said:

can i say fuck? ;D

 

[WxWatcher007]

2 minutes ago, kdxken said:

Locusts might be fun. 

"Compared to previous infestations in the region, the 1874 plague was significantly more damaging. The invasion coincided with a record drought in the Midwest and Great Plains, which induced the grasshoppers (estimated at 120 billion to 12.5 trillion) to not only thrive but also to swarm when local vegetation was decimated. The arriving locusts would pile up to over a foot high and ate crops, trees, leaves, grass, wool off sheep, harnesses on horses, paint from wagons, and pitchfork handles. 

 

My God.  
 

Kev would have a field day with that until they swarmed his AC vents. 

[WxWatcher007]

Also—we pray for GFS with June tropical but it’s just eye candy 

[dendrite]

4 minutes ago, kdxken said:

Locusts might be fun. 

"Compared to previous infestations in the region, the 1874 plague was significantly more damaging. The invasion coincided with a record drought in the Midwest and Great Plains, which induced the grasshoppers (estimated at 120 billion to 12.5 trillion) to not only thrive but also to swarm when local vegetation was decimated. The arriving locusts would pile up to over a foot high and ate crops, trees, leaves, grass, wool off sheep, harnesses on horses, paint from wagons, and pitchfork handles. 

 

My chickens would love that. Some cicadas too. 

[powderfreak]

2 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

My God.  

Kev would have a field day with that until they swarmed his AC vents. 

Foot deep piles of insects that have destroyed the vegetation, does sound like a DIT dream.  Destruction and not boring.

[WxWatcher007]

1 minute ago, powderfreak said:

Foot deep piles of insects that have destroyed the vegetation, does sound like a DIT dream.  Destruction and not boring.

True, but what’ll happen when his yard is destroyed and dews collapse into weeks of desert dryness?

[Torch Tiger]

https://shopgoodwill.com/item/231257101

who wants to engage in bidding war?  i'm over $75

<3 

 

[Torch Tiger]

<3

[dendrite]

59.3° RA

[kdxken]

16 minutes ago, dendrite said:

59.3° RA

Not too bad here. 0.15 and doesn't look like a whole lot More with the morning rain.

[kdxken]

24 minutes ago, dendrite said:

59.3° RA

Springfield area got a nice soaking. 

 

[Chrisrotary12]

Storm is almost over. What a stupid event.

[Modfan2]

.44F here, just enough. Thinking maybe add another .50” worst case.

[dendrite]

31 minutes ago, Chrisrotary12 said:

Storm is almost over. What a stupid event.

Should get some sun this afternoon before the “stinger” moves back in. Maybe we can destabilize and pop some cells. 

[512high]

.41" since 4am/ 60F

[Chrisrotary12]

5 minutes ago, 512high said:

.41" since 4am/ 60F

LOL should have kept my tee time. 

[Chrisrotary12]

31 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Should get some sun this afternoon before the “stinger” moves back in. Maybe we can destabilize and pop some cells. 

Maybe we can pop the sun out to dry things off and the kid can play outside. 

[512high]

Jeez, how is next weekend looking.............

[Hoth]

The damn tent caterpillars are all over the south side of Fishers Island. I was going out of my way to squash them with my car.

[Damage In Tolland]

28 minutes ago, Hoth said:

The damn tent caterpillars are all over the south side of Fishers Island. I was going out of my way to squash them with my car.

Let them eat !

[Torch Tiger]

2 hours ago, kdxken said:

Not too bad here. 0.15 and doesn't look like a whole lot More with the morning rain.

[HIPPYVALLEY]

1.1” here.  Had hours of moderate rain. 

[Lava Rock]

Meh. 0.16". Hey stuff is north

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[Damage In Tolland]

.60 Now let’s get some sun out 

[HoarfrostHubb]

0.35.   Just enough to delay mowing.  

[dendrite]

Pushing 1” in the stratus. More avian poo in the tipper. 

[Typhoon Tip]

mm mentioned this yesterday but this thing is really sub-standard synoptic in scale.  It's between meso and synoptic .. in Met we used to refer to that range as 'meso-beta' scaled.  

There's an intense rain ball over SE NY with warning headlines... and then these spokes like being on the east side of a tropical system racing N - meant as metaphor ...don't get your buns lubed with mustered.   Anyway, the models appeared yesterday to be more spread out/interpretive over what was actually happening at the time, and so far that's translated up to being a more localized impact.

One other aspect, we were commenting on the depth of the low pressure... I think this whole construct was misleading a bit... The low was developing in a region that was already 998 mb/negative regional anomaly with a broad surface trough in place.  You take that initial condition and the low goes down 10 mb and suddenly you got something in the mid 980s... but it's really 1000mb low

[dendrite]

1 hour ago, Hoth said:

The damn tent caterpillars are all over the south side of Fishers Island. I was going out of my way to squash them with my car.

Tents are native. We let them live  

Gypsies we splat.