May 2025

[lee59]

1 hour ago, LibertyBell said:

wow earliest shark sighting on Long Island, a Great White was sighted near Montauk!!

A lot of drones flying around to capture the unexpected. It was nice to see how clear the water seemed to be.

[LibertyBell]

so glad we're not getting any of that rain they are getting south of us, flash flood emergencies and entire school buses floating away!

we've had more than enough rain.

[winterwx21]

Actually got 0.25" here this afternoon. Not bad. I didn't think we'd get that much this early. 

[jm1220]

WTF... Austin, TX's high for tomorrow is expected to hit 108. That's insanely early to be reaching that kind of heat and is actually not far from all time heat records there. The average high there this time of year is around 85. And it's expected to be 100+ for the next 5-6 days. This is more typical for mid-August. Must be feedback from the drought conditions over the Rio Grande Valley and SW flow/ridging.

[psv88]

1 hour ago, lee59 said:

A lot of drones flying around to capture the unexpected. It was nice to see how clear the water seemed to be.

Clean water due to…environmental regulations. People should keep that in mind

[Sundog]

6 minutes ago, psv88 said:

Clean water due to…environmental regulations. People should keep that in mind

Yes of course. The majority of us don't want to live in a replica of a Chinese industrial dump city. 

Unfortunately the people most into the environment today are also anti nuclear and more focused on "environmental justice" instead of just keeping the air and water clean. 

[LongBeachSurfFreak]

57 minutes ago, jm1220 said:

WTF... Austin, TX's high for tomorrow is expected to hit 108. That's insanely early to be reaching that kind of heat and is actually not far from all time heat records there. The average high there this time of year is around 85. And it's expected to be 100+ for the next 5-6 days. This is more typical for mid-August. Must be feedback from the drought conditions over the Rio Grande Valley and SW flow/ridging.

Yeah seems very early for that type of heat. That’s the exact reason I could never live in Texas. It’s only going to get worse, it’s almost like winter here in that you don’t go outside much when the HI is 110+. The thunderstorms in Texas are amazing though. Best thunderstorm I have ever experienced was a true super cell in Dallas. Golf ball size hail and other level lighting.

[Sundog]

25 minutes ago, LongBeachSurfFreak said:

Yeah seems very early for that type of heat. That’s the exact reason I could never live in Texas. It’s only going to get worse, it’s almost like winter here in that you don’t go outside much when the HI is 110+. The thunderstorms in Texas are amazing though. Best thunderstorm I have ever experienced was a true super cell in Dallas. Golf ball size hail and other level lighting.

Do you remember the hailstorms in summer 2011? In Western Nassau/eastern Queens they got rocked by baseball sized hail. 

I got quarter sized hail by my house by another cell that occurred a couple hours after the baseball sized hailstorm. 

[jm1220]

30 minutes ago, LongBeachSurfFreak said:

Yeah seems very early for that type of heat. That’s the exact reason I could never live in Texas. It’s only going to get worse, it’s almost like winter here in that you don’t go outside much when the HI is 110+. The thunderstorms in Texas are amazing though. Best thunderstorm I have ever experienced was a true super cell in Dallas. Golf ball size hail and other level lighting.

When I lived there (Austin) were definitely a couple impressive storms and a few tornado warnings. This time of year in May is their active season often with a lot of rain, the truly intense heat didn't get underway until July the two summers I was there (which were true hell). I lived there in May 2015 when there was over 20" of rain just that month and heavy rain almost every day. Catastrophic flooding in some places near me. But then in June it dried up and essentially no rain again until Sept 2015, and Oct 2015 was another deluge month. 

[the_other_guy]

1 hour ago, jm1220 said:

WTF... Austin, TX's high for tomorrow is expected to hit 108. That's insanely early to be reaching that kind of heat and is actually not far from all time heat records there. The average high there this time of year is around 85. And it's expected to be 100+ for the next 5-6 days. This is more typical for mid-August. Must be feedback from the drought conditions over the Rio Grande Valley and SW flow/ridging.

I was there in Oct for a music festival and it was 100. Miserable

[Rjay]

18 minutes ago, Sundog said:

Do you remember the hailstorms in summer 2011? In Western Nassau/eastern Queens they got rocked by baseball sized hail. 

I got quarter sized hail by my house by another cell that occurred a couple hours after the baseball sized hailstorm. 

 

[MJO812]

No heat in sight

 

[Sundog]

11 minutes ago, Rjay said:

 

I remember being in the pool, blue skies and sunny overhead and a towering black cloud just to my east, with some crazy loud thunder even reaching me from that storm. 

There was a really good video from Nassau that showed huge hailstones but I can't find it. This one is from Queens that day. Look at the hailstone that falls around 28 seconds. That's a solid baseball:

 

 

 

 

[LongBeachSurfFreak]

55 minutes ago, Sundog said:

Do you remember the hailstorms in summer 2011? In Western Nassau/eastern Queens they got rocked by baseball sized hail. 

I got quarter sized hail by my house by another cell that occurred a couple hours after the baseball sized hailstorm. 

I missed that one, I was working in New Hyde Park at the time but wasn’t at work. I have only seen pea sized hail twice on the island. I have seen quarter size in central Jersey and the golf ball storm in Texas. Gorilla hail is on my weather bucket list. 

[LibertyBell]

3 hours ago, Sundog said:

Yes of course. The majority of us don't want to live in a replica of a Chinese industrial dump city. 

Unfortunately the people most into the environment today are also anti nuclear and more focused on "environmental justice" instead of just keeping the air and water clean. 

I blame pesticides and fertilizers more than anything.  Conventional farming practices need to be reformed.

Toxic algae blooms cause massive problems in the summer.

[LibertyBell]

2 hours ago, Sundog said:

Do you remember the hailstorms in summer 2011? In Western Nassau/eastern Queens they got rocked by baseball sized hail. 

I got quarter sized hail by my house by another cell that occurred a couple hours after the baseball sized hailstorm. 

That must have been a north shore event.

I know there was a hail event in northern Queens years ago that required plowing to remove.

 

[LibertyBell]

2 hours ago, LongBeachSurfFreak said:

Yeah seems very early for that type of heat. That’s the exact reason I could never live in Texas. It’s only going to get worse, it’s almost like winter here in that you don’t go outside much when the HI is 110+. The thunderstorms in Texas are amazing though. Best thunderstorm I have ever experienced was a true super cell in Dallas. Golf ball size hail and other level lighting.

west Texas climate is much better with drier heat.

My first step in geoengineering would be to get rid of the Gulf of Mexico. Or build a mountain range on the gulf coast to cut off all that humidity.

 

 

[LibertyBell]

1 hour ago, LongBeachSurfFreak said:

I missed that one, I was working in New Hyde Park at the time but wasn’t at work. I have only seen pea sized hail twice on the island. I have seen quarter size in central Jersey and the golf ball storm in Texas. Gorilla hail is on my weather bucket list. 

Don't jinx yourself, one day you'll be hit by a megaicycryometeor!!

 

[LibertyBell]

1 hour ago, Sundog said:

I remember being in the pool, blue skies and sunny overhead and a towering black cloud just to my east, with some crazy loud thunder even reaching me from that storm. 

There was a really good video from Nassau that showed huge hailstones but I can't find it. This one is from Queens that day. Look at the hailstone that falls around 28 seconds. That's a solid baseball:

 

 

 

 

The northern Queens hailstorm I remember from the 90s had very small hailstones (hail pebbles?) but they fell for several hours and accumulated up to a foot, that's why snow plows were required.

[coastalplainsnowman]

1 hour ago, Sundog said:

I remember being in the pool, blue skies and sunny overhead and a towering black cloud just to my east, with some crazy loud thunder even reaching me from that storm. 

There was a really good video from Nassau that showed huge hailstones but I can't find it. This one is from Queens that day. Look at the hailstone that falls around 28 seconds. That's a solid baseball:

 

2010 - 2012 were some wild times around here.  There was that ridiculously wet mid-March 2010 where LI lost as many trees as in a hurricane due to the ground being so saturated, then Irene, then Sandy.  All interspersed with crazy snowstorms and then 100 degree heat, including I think a 106 in Newark.  Oh yeah, a decent earthquake too.  Am I missing anything?  Fun times if you like this sort of thing, not sure if it applies to anyone here lol.

[Rjay]

2 hours ago, Sundog said:

I remember being in the pool, blue skies and sunny overhead and a towering black cloud just to my east, with some crazy loud thunder even reaching me from that storm. 

There was a really good video from Nassau that showed huge hailstones but I can't find it. This one is from Queens that day. Look at the hailstone that falls around 28 seconds. That's a solid baseball:

 

 

 

 

There was one from New Hyde Park that was crazy. I can't find it but i found a few more.