May 2025 General Discussion

[Torchageddon]

Enjoyed last evening once it was clear, felt better. Then first thing this morning walked quite a bit while it was sunny with the green everywhere established. Now back to overcast as of 10:30, this is unreal. Still feels chilly too.

[CheeselandSkies]

Pleasant, but by my standards too cool and quiescent Memorial Day weekend and most of the remainder of May on tap.

If I hadn't gone to get the Arnett last weekend it'd be yet another of those springs where I'd be going stir-crazy.

[Chinook]

999 tornadoes with 99 EF2+ possible, rather strange coincidence of numbers, Above normal to date this year.

[hawkeye_wx]

This week's decent rain system vanished on the models.  We've gone from Tuesday washout to a few sprinkles/spritzes Tue-Thu.

[cyclone77]

Bring on the ring of fire.  This pattern's boring.

[Chinook]

sunset tonight with contrails

[Spartman]

2 hours ago, cyclone77 said:

Bring on the ring of fire.  This pattern's boring.

Garbage over the next couple days starting tomorrow, but a slow warm-up by next weekend to end the month.

[sbnwx85]

We have a reporter working on a story today about the crops ruined by the dust storm across portions of North Central Indiana. Soybeans were already planted and now farmers are re-planting this week. 

[CP_WinterStorm]

2 hours ago, sbnwx85 said:

We have a reporter working on a story today about the crops ruined by the dust storm across portions of North Central Indiana. Soybeans were already planted and now farmers are re-planting this week. 

That was something not on my bingo card for the year, and unlike anything I've ever experienced. Not having power (from the 70mph winds the night before) made it all the more special as all our windows were open as it began.

That bank of trees, barely visible behind the homes on the far right of the image, is just under half a mile away from me. So while we didn't experience the near zero visibility that some did in Illinois and further south of us, it was still a truly wild event. Definitely gave me an appreciation for what our ancestors went through in the 1930's with the Dust Bowl.

[A-L-E-K]

we really should get serious about how we're using (ie wasting) some of the most fertile and productive soils on the planet via industrial monocropping in about the most ecologically harmful manner possible

hard for me to muster sympathy for farmers when what we're really talking about with few exceptions is large agribusiness growing surplus commodities at great subsidy

[cyclone77]

0.38" so far with some rain still coming down.  Enough to get us over 3" for the month now.

[A-L-E-K]

another classic cool rainy day, no big totals here this month but the cool temps and long duration events have kept things green despite the long term deficits creeping up

[michsnowfreak]

Another cool gray day here. Usually the 2nd half of May is when I start running the AC, at least periodically, but this year its either been the heat running or windows open. Zero complaints from me.

[sbnwx85]

Nice, steady rain here. Good for the garden.

[sbnwx85]

5 hours ago, A-L-E-K said:

we really should get serious about how we're using (ie wasting) some of the most fertile and productive soils on the planet via industrial monocropping in about the most ecologically harmful manner possible

hard for me to muster sympathy for farmers when what we're really talking about with few exceptions is large agribusiness growing surplus commodities at great subsidy

That’s a good point, I think. Maybe to add to that, I’m not sure what farmers in Central Illinois are doing but there have been about four springtime “dust storms” over the last decade due to wind picking dirt while farmers are out in the field. And they’ve caused major problems for drivers on the interstates.