May 2025

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22 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

the night time tornado problem is a particularly difficult one to tackle, especially in rural areas.

 

While I realize tornados are spawned as a result of multiple synoptic features coming together at the same area, I still am amazed that there are so many of them at night.  Probably because here in the east, we see so many thunderstorms losing their intensity as they approach our area in the evening, as the sun's energy is removed, thus eliminating some of the lift to produce the higher cloud heights.  Sort of seems counter intuitive.  Not to say we don't see severe thunderstorms at night in the summertime...

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8 hours ago, SnoSki14 said:

I never understood the unofficial start to summer for beaches in late May. Water is still very cold and temps can be very chilly too with any east wind. 

To me the 4th of July weekend is the real start to summer. 

Its just easy to frame it around two major holidays. Also, the amount of daylight contributes to the feel of summer or not.  A lot more daytime to work with in June than mid to late August. Most colleges and some schools start in Aug, and places start to lose their seasonal employees too. There's only so much potential time to the summer window, cant afford to sacrifice any just because the early parts may not be reliably hot.

But I get it, in terms of beaches in this region I don't get too excited about it until July, mainly because of water temps.