May 2025 Obs/Discussion

[CoastalWx]

Probably about .4” on the Cape. We camp but we survive. 

[SouthCoastMA]

38 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Probably about .4” on the Cape. We camp but we survive. 

Yeah even less here, just under .2"

Suns bursting out, should outperform the mid 60s forecast for today. And should dry out a bit for you

[Damage In Tolland]

41 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Tents are native. We let them live  

Gypsies we splat. 

I think it’s gypsies down there. That area was in a bad drought for years 

[SJonesWX]

closing in on 1” and currently pouring. another terrific Saturday

[HIPPYVALLEY]

1 minute ago, SJonesWX said:

closing in on 1” and currently pouring. another terrific Saturday

I am up to 1.3 inches but looks like might finally let up in the next half hour.
Those areas west of the Hudson Valley are getting drowned this morning. 

[Modfan2]

21 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

I think it’s gypsies down there. That area was in a bad drought for years 

Noticed gypsies here lately 

[Torch Tiger]

[weatherwiz]

Crazy rain overnight but have sun now!!! Wasn’t fully expecting that, at least this early 

[butterfish55]

Gotta imagine this is gonna open up the eastern sections which clear out with some sun, for widespread strong, isolated severe

Can confirm. Lots of sun now, temps responding nicely. Good Saturday on the way

[radarman]

1.5" overnight

currently in a gap with the sun out and some stadium effect going on.  Little swirly low level stuff and very dark clouds to the south

[Sn0waddict]

After three days of crap weather it is absolutely stunning right now out here on block island. But go figure it’s the day I’m leaving 

[Hoth]

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

Tents are native. We let them live  

Gypsies we splat. 

I always assumed they were one and the same. Interesting.

[ineedsnow]

suns out.. hopefully we can warm and storm later on

[dendrite]

57.6° +RA

Cats and dogs right now. Jfc

[Spanks45]

Odd weather down here....feels like we went through the 'eye' of the storm, winds went calm, sun came out. Now we are getting into the 'SW quadrant' with heavy rains and pretty gusty too

[kdxken]

1 hour ago, Damage In Tolland said:

I think it’s gypsies down there. That area was in a bad drought for years 

That would be my guess too. You're not going to really notice tent caterpillars.

[kdxken]

20 minutes ago, ineedsnow said:

suns out.. hopefully we can warm and storm later on

Same. Let's go!

[kdxken]

25 minutes ago, Hoth said:

I always assumed they were one and the same. Interesting.

If they're tent caterpillars you'll see webs in the v of trees. 

[klw]

pushing 1.4" here and coming down at a good clip atm.  nearing 9" for the month

[kdxken]

 

[powderfreak]

A steady synoptic rain at 59F throughout the entire daylight hours of a Saturday.

Just how @ineedsnow would draw it up.

[ineedsnow]

1 minute ago, powderfreak said:

A steady synoptic rain at 59F throughout the entire daylight hours of a Saturday.

Just how @ineedsnow would draw it up.

I like it cool but the rain can GTFO its even getting old to me lol

[Lee Fontaine]

This May seems to have been the coolest, cloudiest, and wettest I can remember of late.  I live a little over a mile as the crow flies from the Rhode Island shore so I expect a cool spring.  But this May my solar panel power production is significantly lower than the past four Mays.  It's 28% lower than my previous high in 2023, and 15% lower than my previous low in 2021.  There's almost 8-inches of rain in my rain guage.  If flowers are any indication, based on last years photos, my wife's perennial gardens are behind last May.  Here's hoping June breaks the spell.

[Damage In Tolland]

2 hours ago, Modfan2 said:

Noticed gypsies here lately 

Nice! Get after it 

[mreaves]

38 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

A steady synoptic rain at 59F throughout the entire daylight hours of a Saturday.

Just how @ineedsnow would draw it up.

59°? You lucky bastard!  My height for the day has been 56°. 

[AstronomyEnjoyer]

2 minutes ago, mreaves said:

59°? You lucky bastard!  My height for the day has been 56°. 

My height for the day has been 68 for many years now unfortunately. Really could use a few more inches.

[WxWatcher007]

982.0 mb here

[tamarack]

15 hours 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. 

 

Early 1980s when we lived in Fort Kent, there was an outbreak of forest tent caterpillars, aka army worms.  They fully defoliated all trees of the Populus genus - aspens, balsam poplar - and moved onto other hardwoods.  Their squashed bodies stalled a train north of HUL, and a neighbor in FK had so many piled against his Bilco door (worms couldn't pass the metal flange atop the foundation) that he used a snow shovel to transport them by the thousands to his burn barrel.  People would open their door and see hundreds heading over the threshold, sometimes resulting in those folks temporarily moving elsewhere.

Only 4/10" by 9:30 and not much since, with the last decent band now overhead.  Maybe reaches 2/3", probably less, but even dz at mid 50s is nasty.

[HIPPYVALLEY]

We’ve maybe had 10 minutes of sun and it’s been lots bursts of low level sheet drizzle since 11 AM.

[HIPPYVALLEY]

Just noticed the radar really blossomed along the I 91  corridor south of here.