May 2025

[Brian5671]

We can still get cutoffs into mid June-just won't be 48-52, more like 55-57...

[MANDA]

Received .29" last 24 hours with an event total of 1.41".  Thankfully surface and upper level feature are lifting away so the weekend will be coolish but dry.  If timing was a little different we could have had clouds, cold and damp with rain for at least 2 of the 3 days.  Not perfect weather for Memorial Day weekend coming up but it could have been a total washout so we should consider ourselves lucky.

 

 

[Brian5671]

3 minutes ago, MANDA said:

Received .29" last 24 hours with an event total of 1.41".  Thankfully surface and upper level feature are lifting away so the weekend will be coolish but dry.  If timing was a little different we could have had clouds, cold and damp with rain for at least 2 of the 3 days.  Not perfect weather for Memorial Day weekend coming up but it could have been a total washout so we should consider ourselves lucky.

 

 

I'll take anything that involves dry weather-sun is a bonus too.

[MANDA]

Event totals.

SNE clear winner.  Some spot 5"+ amounts south of BOS to MVY.  Max I see is just over 7" SSE of BOS.

Click to zoom

 

 

[LibertyBell]

2 hours ago, jm1220 said:

Eh, glad the lawns got another drink and we can still get a coastal storm under the right conditions. The storm also would’ve evolved differently in the winter. 

sne can keep the rain no one wants it anymore

 

[Brian5671]

Just now, LibertyBell said:

sne can keep the rain no one wants it anymore

 

yeah you don't hear any complaints about it being dry here anymore lol

[LibertyBell]

22 minutes ago, MANDA said:

Received .29" last 24 hours with an event total of 1.41".  Thankfully surface and upper level feature are lifting away so the weekend will be coolish but dry.  If timing was a little different we could have had clouds, cold and damp with rain for at least 2 of the 3 days.  Not perfect weather for Memorial Day weekend coming up but it could have been a total washout so we should consider ourselves lucky.

 

 

as long as the sun comes out for the majority of the weekend it's fine.

mostly cloudy skies = washout

 

[LibertyBell]

Just now, Brian5671 said:

yeah you don't hear any complaints about it being dry here anymore lol

Yeah this spring absolutely sucks, the last two were much better.

[LibertyBell]

1 hour ago, Brian5671 said:

We can still get cutoffs into mid June-just won't be 48-52, more like 55-57...

we had one on July 2, 1993 when it hit 67 for the high lol.  A week later it was 100+ for three straight days and we were off to the races......

[LibertyBell]

3 hours ago, SACRUS said:

 

50 / 48 misty / light rain and drizzle.   Hour 60 of what should be 96 hours of clouds / mostly cloudy conditions, but this could extend into Sunday approaching 100 hours.   Light showers rain becoming isolated mostly cloudy although there could be some breaks in the clouds stuck near 60.  Tomorrow the ULL is over the the northeast and clouds lingering - a bit warmer / drier low - mid 60s.  Sunday piece of energy over the GL dives south and could trigger some scattered showers and additional cloud cover - mainly dry / warmer near 70.  Monday looks to break the streak fully with partly cloudy skies and temps neareer to normal low - mid 70s.   

Beyond there the trough remains into the Northeast with the month closing out near normal / perhaps a warm day or day / half 29-30 or 30-31.   Still lingering trough and tendency for low cutting off from the trough before the warmth in heat goes north and east by the end of the first week of next month in the way beyond:

5/21 - 5/25 : Much cooler - cloudy wet
5/26 - Memorial day slavaged 70s and dry - partly - sunny
5/27 - 5/29 :   Near normal - southern system may bring light rain
5/30 - 5/31:   could end with a brief warmup
Way beyond :   warmer into the the 6/5 - beyond period (perhaps much warmer and hotter)

 

I don't see that happening Tony, I think the sun will come out tomorrow, the wind will be WNW which is a dry downsloping wind.  I think the forecasts for it being cloudy tomorrow will bust, I've seen it time and again when we clear out on that kind of wind here.

 

[LibertyBell]

3 hours ago, Sundog said:

If this was winter it would have been a heartbreaker, but at least we still got something. This was a SNE special:

Those oranges are 3 to 5 inches of rain. 

No one around here wants any rain anymore I'm glad new england is getting most of this, we have a midatlantic climate here.

 

[LibertyBell]

2 hours ago, SACRUS said:

 

Records:

Highs:

EWR: 96 (1964)
NYC: 94 (1964)
LGA: 94 (1964)
JFK: 92 (2021)


Lows:


EWR: 43 (1931)
NYC: 43 (1963)
LGA: 45 (1963)
JFK: 33 (2022)

Historical:

 

1882 - An unusual late season snow blanketed eastern Iowa, with four to six inches reported around Washington. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)

1953 - The temperature at Hollis OK soared from a morning low of 70 degrees to an afternoon high of 110 degrees to establish a state record for the month of May. (The Weather Channel)

1987 - It was a busy day for thunderstorms in the central U.S. Thunderstorms produced wind gusts to 65 mph at Shreveport LA and golf ball size hail at Marfa, TX. Hobart, OK, received 3.55 inches of rain in the morning, and another 4.03 inches of rain that evening. Thunderstorms in Nebraska produced 8.5 inches of rain in two hours north of Potter, and 7.5 inches of rain in ninety minutes north of Minatare. Thunderstorms in Colorado produced five inches of hail at Greeley. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

1988 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather across much of the eastern U.S. Golf ball size hail was reported in Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina and Ohio. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)

1989 - Severe thunderstorms developing along a cold front resulted in 98 reports of large hail and damaging winds in the Northern Plains and Upper Mississippi Valley. Golf ball size hail caused a million dollars damage around Buffalo City, WI, baseball size hail was reported at Northfield and Randolph, MN, and thunderstorm winds gusted to 95 mph at Dunkerton, IA. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

1989 - Unseasonably hot weather continued in the south central U.S. Pueblo, CO, equalled their May record with a high of 98 degrees, and the high of 106 degrees at Midland, TX, marked a record six straight days of 100 degree heat. (The National Weather Summary)

1990 - A cold front crossing the western U.S. produced snow over parts of Oregon, California, Nevada, Idaho and Utah, with five inches reported at Austin NV, and four inches at Crater Lake National Park in Oregon. Strong winds behind the cold front sharply reduced visibilities in blowing dust over central California, and two multi-vehicle accidents resulted in one death and eighteen injuries. In northern Idaho, a cloud-burst washed tons of topsoil, and rocks as large as footballs, into the valley town of Culdesac. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

 

2002: A Pacific storm system brought some much needed snow to the Colorado Mountains and foothills with a mix of rain on the Plains. Snowfall totals included: 13 inches at Coal Creek Canyon, 11 inches near Evergreen, CO. The former Stapleton International Airport at Denver reported less than an inch. Three temperature records were set. The morning low temperature of 31° was a record low; as was the morning low of 32° the following morning. The high temperature of only 48° equaled the record low maximum.

JFK: 33 (2022)

Tony, should this be 43?

[LibertyBell]

2 hours ago, SACRUS said:

 

Coastal low slowly pulling away in the northeast and pronounces breaks and clearing into PA.  Perhaps by noon we can get into breaks of sun or better - heres hoping

 

 

Yeah this is why I don't agree with any of models saying it's going to be cloudy tomorrow and Sunday.  We know our climate and what happens here on westerly and northwesterly winds-- the skies clear out.  Tomorrow and Sunday will both be partly sunny and Monday will be mostly sunny.

 

[LibertyBell]

1 hour ago, Sundog said:

You thought wrong my friend. It's not impossible, it just gets more and more unlikely. 

I want climate change to accelerate so this kind of nonsense can never happen again.

[Stormlover74]

Just now, LibertyBell said:

Yeah this is why I don't agree with any of models saying it's going to be cloudy tomorrow and Sunday.  We know our climate and what happens here on westerly and northwesterly winds-- the skies clear out.  Tomorrow and Sunday will both be partly sunny and Monday will be mostly sunny.

 

My forecast is mostly sunny for Sunday partly sunny tomorrow 

[LibertyBell]

4 hours ago, Sundog said:

We finally got one lol 

Still haven't turned the heat on. I baked bread yesterday, it helped haha

you really need a space heater, I keep my bedroom at 82 degrees, it's a nice dry heat and destroys all the stupid cold outside :-)

[LibertyBell]

4 hours ago, bluewave said:

Very nice to actually get a top 10 coldest record for a change.

 

Time Series Summary for NEWARK LIBERTY INTL AP, NJ
Click column heading to sort ascending, click again to sort descending top 10 coldest lowest maximum temperatures 5-21 to 6-2

1	1967-06-02	48	0
2	1961-06-02	49	0
3	2021-06-02	52	0
4	2025-06-02	53	11
-	1990-06-02	53	0
-	1953-06-02	53	0
5	2005-06-02	54	0
-	1946-06-02	54	0
-	1934-06-02	54	0
6	1982-06-02	55	0
7	2003-06-02	56	0
-	2000-06-02	56	0
-	1943-06-02	56	0
-	1931-06-02	56	0
8	2015-06-02	57	0
-	1968-06-02	57	0
9	2013-06-02	58	0
-	2001-06-02	58	0
-	1950-06-02	58	0
-	1945-06-02	58	0
10	2017-06-02	59	0
-	2011-06-02	59	0
-	1973-06-02	59	0
-	1970-06-02	59	0
-	1963-06-02	59	0
-	1954-06-02	59	0

I don't think anyone misses cold weather lol

Getting it in the winter is different, in the summer we want heat records.

[LibertyBell]

13 hours ago, coastalplainsnowman said:

It's interesting that 2011, the year with by far the shortest time between first and last 90 degree days - 69 days - , is also the year that Newark had the 106 or maybe 108.

It can easily get very hot again after this nonsense goes away

In July 1993 we had a cutoff noreaster rainstorm much like this one on July 2nd, when we had a high of 66 and a low of 62.  A week later we were off to the races with a 10 day heatwave and 3-5 days of 100+

It pays to live through this stuff and have a good memory.

Also, it hit 108 on that day in Newark and 103-104 for the rest of the airports and local area.

[LibertyBell]

14 hours ago, jm1220 said:

Probably would’ve been a broader precip shield since there’s a bigger difference between cold and warm ocean air-more overrunning, broader precip shield west. It might’ve been light rain/mix to heavy snow as the offshore low took over-we have a primary low that made it all the way to Buffalo. But it would’ve been another Juno/Nemo/Jan 2022 scenario. 

when are we going to get the next *Jonas* ;'-) that was a real HECS.

[LibertyBell]

3 hours ago, SACRUS said:

 

Records:

Highs:

EWR: 96 (1964)
NYC: 94 (1964)
LGA: 94 (1964)
JFK: 92 (2021)


Lows:


EWR: 43 (1931)
NYC: 43 (1963)
LGA: 45 (1963)
JFK: 33 (2022)

Historical:

 

1882 - An unusual late season snow blanketed eastern Iowa, with four to six inches reported around Washington. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)

1953 - The temperature at Hollis OK soared from a morning low of 70 degrees to an afternoon high of 110 degrees to establish a state record for the month of May. (The Weather Channel)

1987 - It was a busy day for thunderstorms in the central U.S. Thunderstorms produced wind gusts to 65 mph at Shreveport LA and golf ball size hail at Marfa, TX. Hobart, OK, received 3.55 inches of rain in the morning, and another 4.03 inches of rain that evening. Thunderstorms in Nebraska produced 8.5 inches of rain in two hours north of Potter, and 7.5 inches of rain in ninety minutes north of Minatare. Thunderstorms in Colorado produced five inches of hail at Greeley. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

1988 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather across much of the eastern U.S. Golf ball size hail was reported in Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina and Ohio. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)

1989 - Severe thunderstorms developing along a cold front resulted in 98 reports of large hail and damaging winds in the Northern Plains and Upper Mississippi Valley. Golf ball size hail caused a million dollars damage around Buffalo City, WI, baseball size hail was reported at Northfield and Randolph, MN, and thunderstorm winds gusted to 95 mph at Dunkerton, IA. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

1989 - Unseasonably hot weather continued in the south central U.S. Pueblo, CO, equalled their May record with a high of 98 degrees, and the high of 106 degrees at Midland, TX, marked a record six straight days of 100 degree heat. (The National Weather Summary)

1990 - A cold front crossing the western U.S. produced snow over parts of Oregon, California, Nevada, Idaho and Utah, with five inches reported at Austin NV, and four inches at Crater Lake National Park in Oregon. Strong winds behind the cold front sharply reduced visibilities in blowing dust over central California, and two multi-vehicle accidents resulted in one death and eighteen injuries. In northern Idaho, a cloud-burst washed tons of topsoil, and rocks as large as footballs, into the valley town of Culdesac. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

 

2002: A Pacific storm system brought some much needed snow to the Colorado Mountains and foothills with a mix of rain on the Plains. Snowfall totals included: 13 inches at Coal Creek Canyon, 11 inches near Evergreen, CO. The former Stapleton International Airport at Denver reported less than an inch. Three temperature records were set. The morning low temperature of 31° was a record low; as was the morning low of 32° the following morning. The high temperature of only 48° equaled the record low maximum.

JFK: 92 (2021)

the good old days

 

[nycwinter]

i never thought i would see on a may 23 that so many people are wearing winter coats outside and it is that cold..

[LibertyBell]

10 minutes ago, Stormlover74 said:

My forecast is mostly sunny for Sunday partly sunny tomorrow 

Yes, I think this is accurate.  Monday is the best day but the other two days are pretty good too and at least partly sunny.

[WestBabylonWeather]

Looks like jeans and a hoodie for the air show tomorrow 

[SACRUS]

39 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

Yes, I think this is accurate.  Monday is the best day but the other two days are pretty good too and at least partly sunny.

Clouds stingy to break up but getting brighter.   Im not sold on mostly sunny tomorrow or Sunday with piece of energy ejecting out of the GL mostly dry but could cloudy things up and even some spotty showers later in the evening.  Monday should go mostly sunny.   Hoping its sunnier of course.

 

getting there

 

[SACRUS]

 

NNJ light rain / showers lingering

 

 

[gravitylover]

4 hours ago, Dark Star said:

I'd rather have a better view of Uranus...

No you wouldn't. 

3 minutes ago, SACRUS said:

Clouds stingy to break up but getting brighter.   Im not sold on mostly sunny tomorrow or Sunday with piece of energy ejecting out of the GL mostly dry but could cloudy things up and even some spotty showers later in the evening.  Monday should go mostly sunny.   Hoping its sunnier of course.

 

getting there

 

Yeah, I'm thinking popcorn type stuff tomorrow.

[vegan_edible]

1 hour ago, LibertyBell said:

you really need a space heater, I keep my bedroom at 82 degrees, it's a nice dry heat and destroys all the stupid cold outside :-)

what!?!?! this is unhinged!

[Sundog]

2 minutes ago, vegan_edible said:

what!?!?! this is unhinged!

I get angry if it's over 70 lol

[RedSky]

Partly sunny!

Temperature has exploded to 60F with the sun

9.90" rain in May

[LibertyBell]

1 hour ago, vegan_edible said:

what!?!?! this is unhinged!

no it's absolutely amazing.  nice and toasty and best of all, dry.

It also destroys all allergies and completely dries up my nasal passages.