May 2025

[LibertyBell]

6 hours ago, Sundog said:

I think NY has enough laws and regulations on the books as it is lol

lol I know.... there are regulations for first and last day of heat, I just don't remember them off the top of my head.  I think the heating period is October 1st to May 31th and landlords and supers are required to keep the heat in apartments at 68 during the day and 60 at night if the high temperature is lower than 55 and/or the low temperature is lower than 40.  I'm not sure if it's "and" or "or" though.

 

[LibertyBell]

4 hours ago, Sundog said:

What type of heat source do you have?

I have steam heat and it's set at 62 and turned itself on today.  I have a space heater for my bedroom that I turn on, everything else is on automatic.

 

[LibertyBell]

By the way the Knicks choked =\

[bluewave]

All our stations have a shot at the new low max record for 5-22.

EWR….56°

NYC…..54°

LGA…..57°

JFK……55°

ISP……54°

BDR….54°

HPN….54°

[Sundog]

47 degrees here.

LGA has the best chance of beating the record, they are at 49 degrees right now and temps will be pretty uniform today. 

[Sundog]

Juno Jr verifying east

[Dark Star]

9 hours ago, SACRUS said:

 

Rain building into PA and on the doorsteps of SNJ

 

Looks like the heaviest will be east of Newark NJ?

[Brian5671]

8 minutes ago, Sundog said:

Juno Jr verifying east

yep-the Nam and Euro were too far west in that too

[nycwinter]

it looks like rainfall totals will have underperformed for nyc..

[bluewave]

31 minutes ago, nycwinter said:

it looks like rainfall totals will have underperformed for nyc..

Par for the course in recent months as the heaviest rains have been further north and east of NYC leaving lingering drought from Eastern PA into NJ.

[MJO812]

46 and rain

[MJO812]

23 minutes ago, nycwinter said:

it looks like rainfall totals will have underperformed for nyc..

It's raining heavy here in Brooklyn 

[Snowlover11]

nice drink overnight.

[Voyager]

31 minutes ago, bluewave said:

Par for the course in recent months as the heaviest rains have been further north and east of NYC leaving lingering drought from Eastern PA into NJ.

Huh???

I've had 9.74" this month so far.

[Dark Star]

22 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

It's raining heavy here in Brooklyn 

Does Brooklyn count?  0.16" here in Linden NJ for May 21st

[bluewave]

22 minutes ago, Voyager said:

Huh???

I've had 9.74" this month so far.

That’s due to you being further north closer to NEPA. SEPA from around Philly into CNJ and SNJ has had less than half the rainfall that areas further north have had. This is why drought conditions closer to I-80 have improved with lingering drought further south. Plus Eastern Long Island has had more rainfall than Newark this month. 

[SACRUS]

 

50/48 cloudy and light rain (1.02 in the bucket through 9AM here in CNJ).  Hour 36 of what will amount to 96 hours of clouds.  Coolest day of the next, perhaps till October.   Lingering light rain, showers and clouds through Friday becoming isolated.  Clouds still clinging on Saturday but drier.  Should clear up later Saturday but remaining cool (60s).  Sunday and Monday - Memorial day look mainly dry outside some isolated showers Saturday night / Sunday morning - otherwise near normal.   

Trough still into the northeast and potential cutoff in the 5/28 - 5/30 period with next round of clouds/rain.

Warmth/heat from the west heads northeast and trough backs west with a warmer open to next month and later the end of thet first week.

 

[RU848789]

We're hosting an event on Sunday afternoon June 1st that we hope can be outdoors in our backyard (but is small enough to move inside our house if the weather is bad, but outdoors would be nicer).  Euro and Euro-AI show the period from Saturday night through Monday morning being dry, while the GFS shows it mostly dry with just a few spritzes possible on Sunday - I know it's a long way out, but it's at least nice to have the models largely on our side at this point. 

I rarely ever look at the weather beyond 7-8 days, outside of general patterns (CPC 8-14 day forecast shows generally normal temps and precip for the period around 6/1), since specific forecasts are usually pretty inaccurate that far out, but I'm following this one on a couple of the long range "forecasts" just out of curiosity.  Was interesting to see both the AccuWeather and MyWeather forecasts were showing some rain on Sunday for the last several days, until yesterday, when both switched to mostly sunny/dry forecasts with seasonable temps (highs near 80F) - and today they still show that.  I've tracked a few other events this far out and the forecasts and models flip-flopped a ton from 10-15 days out, but sometimes they'll show consistent solutions, especially from about 10-11 days in.  Hoping this is one of those cases.  Comments welcome.  

[bluewave]

16 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

wow the years on this list are a like Who's Who of some of our coldest/snowiest February, March and April patterns and they warmed up so much in May!

 

2015 !

1979

1982 !

2018 !

2004

1993 !

1964

2014

1960 !

! = years had a big snow event in either March or April or both

 

These +5 departures will get significantly smaller with this very cool pattern to close out the month. 
 

 

[ForestHillWx]

If this was winter…. Oh boy the wolves would be howling. 

[SACRUS]

 

Records:

Highs:

EWR: 98 (1992)
NYC: 96 (1941)
LGA: 94 (1992)
JFK: 94 (2021)


Lows:

EWR: 44 (2002)
NYC: 42 (1907)
LGA: 47 (1950)
JFK: 43 (1990)

 

Historical:

 

1876 - Denver CO was drenched with 6.53 inches of rain in 24 hours, an all-time record for that location. (The Weather Channel)

1911 - The temperature at Lewiston ME soared to 101 degrees. It was the hottest temperature ever recorded in New England during the month of May. (David Ludlum)

1987 - A powerful tornado virtually wiped the small southwest Texas community of Saragosa off the map. The twister destroyed eighty- five percent of the structures in the town killing thirty persons and injuring 121 others in the town of population 183. The tornado hurled trucks and autos through adobe and wood- frame homes, with some vehicles blown 500 feet. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

1988 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather over the Central Gulf Coast States. Tennis ball size hail was reported at Ripley MS. Showers and thunderstorms in southern Missouri produced 3.20 inches of rain at Springfield to easily surpass their rainfall record for the date. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

1989 - Unseasonably hot weather continued in southern Texas and parts of the southwestern U.S. Seven cities reported record high temperatures for the date, including El Paso TX with a reading of 100 degrees. Presidio TX was the hot spot in the nation with a high of 111 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)

1990 - Late afternoon and evening thunderstorms developing ahead of a cold front in the north central U.S. produced severe weather from northwestern Kansas to central Minnesota and southeastern North Dakota. There were twenty-nine reports of damaging winds, or dime to golf ball size hail. Strong thunderstorm winds gusted to 69 mph at Alexandria, MN. Showers and thunderstorms over eastern North Carolina soaked Wilmington with 2.91 inches of rain, which established a record for the date. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

 

2011: The Joplin Tornado was reported to have developed directly over Joplin with the first report of the tornado in Joplin at 5:41 pm CDT, 5/22. Latest reports from mid-day Tuesday 5/24 indicate an estimated 118 fatalities and several hundred injured in the Joplin, MO area. The Joplin tornado is the deadliest since modern record keeping began in 1950 and is ranked 8th among the deadliest tornadoes in U.S. history. The tornado surpassed the June 8, 1953, tornado that claimed 116 lives in Flint, Mich., as the deadliest single tornado to strike the U.S. since modern tornado record keeping began in 1950. The deadliest tornado on record in the U.S. was on March 18, 1925.

[Brian5671]

4 minutes ago, ForestHillWx said:

If this was winter…. Oh boy the wolves would be howling. 

Haha.   The fact that some models were east would be a warning flag but would people heed it?

[SACRUS]

On 5/21/2025 at 8:43 AM, SACRUS said:

 

Cool period

 

 

 

EWR:

5/19: 73 / 52 (-1)
5/20: 71/50 (-3)
5/21: 59 / 50 (-10)

NYC:

5/19: 69 /51 (-4)
5/20: 67 / 49 (-6)
5/21: 59 / 49 (-11)

LGA:

5/19:  70 / 52 (-4)
5/20: 68 / 50 (-6)
5/21: 59 / 49 (-11)

JFK:

5/19: 74 / 53 (+3)
5/20: 76 / 50 (+1)
5/21: 58 / 50 (-8)

[Sundog]

18 minutes ago, SACRUS said:

 

EWR:

5/19: 73 / 52 (-1)
5/20: 71/50 (-3)
5/21: 59 / 50 (-10)

NYC:

5/19: 69 /51 (-4)
5/20: 67 / 49 (-6)
5/21: 59 / 49 (-11)

LGA:

5/19:  70 / 52 (-4)
5/20: 68 / 50 (-6)
5/21: 59 / 49 (-11)

JFK:

5/19: 74 / 53 (+3)
5/20: 76 / 50 (+1)
5/21: 58 / 50 (-8)

They need to fix that 5/20 high for JFK.

It is most definitely wrong

[jm1220]

31 minutes ago, ForestHillWx said:

If this was winter…. Oh boy the wolves would be howling. 

Further east models usually verify in these coastal storm setups. This would be a Boston 24” storm and most of us 10-12”. 

[lee59]

17 minutes ago, Sundog said:

They need to fix that 5/20 high for JFK.

It is most definitely wrong

They fixed it, now says 69.

[MorristownWx]

Significantly better 

[LongBeachSurfFreak]

11 minutes ago, jm1220 said:

Further east models usually verify in these coastal storm setups. This would be a Boston 24” storm and most of us 10-12”. 

Hypothetically more like 3-6” in the metro. Best banding has been setting up just east of the Nassua Suffolk border. 

[Voyager]

2 hours ago, bluewave said:

That’s due to you being further north closer to NEPA. SEPA from around Philly into CNJ and SNJ has had less than half the rainfall that areas further north have had. This is why drought conditions closer to I-80 have improved with lingering drought further south. Plus Eastern Long Island has had more rainfall than Newark this month. 

Yes, I saw that. I believe even Allentown has quite a bit less than I do. Personally, I consider anything east of the Susquehanna to be Eastern PA, but officially (and per my NWS region) I'm actually in Central PA, and by default, NEPA.

[MANDA]

Event total here so far 1.12" with 7.22" on the month.  No complaints.

Breezy, chilly, damp and raw last 24 hours.  Temperatures mainly in the mid 40's here over the last 24 hours.

Heat on for 30 minutes this morning to wipe out the overnight chill.  Still slept with the windows cracked open and the blankets up.

Again, no complaints.

As posted above by @MorristownWxthe Drought Monitor is significantly better.  This current rain was not event was not even factored in.  Possible NNJ is wiped clean by the end of the month.  SNJ a little more in question.