June 2025 Obs/Disco

[WxWatcher007]

31 minutes ago, RDRY said:

What is the significance of terminating DoD satellite data? Will it affect forecasting?

https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2025/06/28/Defense-Department-ends-satellite-data-hurricane-experts/7881751141308/

Yes—and likely in a significant way.

Although there are other satellites that provide microwave data, losing these specific streams (which were delayed due to push back from folks within NHC/NOAA) will keep forecasters from being able to use microwave data in some instances to get a center fix or understand realtime changes occurring in a TC. Imagine what looks like a rapidly intensifying hurricane on our doorstep with recon six hours away, or a system that looks to be organizing at a faster clip or completing an eyewall replacement cycle. MW can get us real meaningful info when we need it. 

Also, the quality just isn’t as good at times due to where the scans occur. There’s that too. Lol

 

[weatherwiz]

2 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

It's late June, you'll always have steep low level lapse rates lol.

That is true  

But I think 2-6km lapse rates are a better metric to use when assessing damaging wind gusts potential versus the standard "low-level lapse rates" which I think are measured 0-3km?

[HoarfrostHubb]

We get better thunderstorms in February than summer lately

[bristolri_wx]

3 hours ago, amarshall said:

General observation while in SW connecticut this weekend.   Son had a lacrosse tournament in Darien/New Canaan area.  Barring the extreme wealth and nearly every home probably having a well, overall its just much greener than Eastern mass.  We never get thunderstorms anymore.  Tuesdays threat looks like it stops in Worcester as does most threats.  Every summer we start off strong in the spring and then it turns into a dust bowl in EMA.   Lawns are complete toast here already. 

Has eastern MA ever been a place where there have been a lot of thunderstorm?  Marine influence tends to modify most stuff that moves in from the West and Northwest directions.  I agree things have been drier but it doesn't seem like we are getting less thunderstorms than in the past, I feel like that's always been an interior New England thing, though I'm in E RI and not in E MA...

[weatherwiz]

9 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

We get better thunderstorms in February than summer lately

Torched mid-levels suck. 

[Damage In Tolland]

Man did he come back quickly. In bed with all of us in SNE.. poking , tickling , Steining 

https://x.com/ericfisher/status/1939694080109183207?s=46&t=dhcbvkjmRcyBVQtDxJ3lRg

[dendrite]

GWDLT

We moist

[CoastalWx]

34 minutes ago, bristolri_wx said:

Has eastern MA ever been a place where there have been a lot of thunderstorm?  Marine influence tends to modify most stuff that moves in from the West and Northwest directions.  I agree things have been drier but it doesn't seem like we are getting less thunderstorms than in the past, I feel like that's always been an interior New England thing, though I'm in E RI and not in E MA...

We’ve had some heavy rain events, but we seem to be lacking in storms recently. Lots of WAR type summers keeping the shortwaves to our northwest. Though his town had a heck of a storm about a year ago lol. 

[HIPPYVALLEY]

A lot of cloud debris in W MA.  
 

 

[tamarack]

In a few hours this month will be only the third June out of 28 to have zero thunder - others were in 2007 and 2014.  Also, this will be our only year in which the first half failed to produce a single calendar day with 1"+ precip.  The year of small storms.

[HoarfrostHubb]

Over 4” of rain here this month. But a vast majority of that was during the first week or so 

[CoastalWx]

We gfs for the 4th

[SouthCoastMA]

Just now, CoastalWx said:

We gfs for the 4th

80's to the coast, mostly clear skies through the evening..can't ask for much more if it verifies

[tunafish]

1 hour ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

A lot of cloud debris in W MA.  
 

 

Record setting ice-out date for Moosehead. 

80/62

[CoastalWx]

2 minutes ago, SouthCoastMA said:

80's to the coast, mostly clear skies through the evening..can't ask for much more if it verifies

There's a couple that want 60 and rain. 

[dryslot]

GYX, +1.1 departure, A real scorcher for June.

[CoastalWx]

7 minutes ago, dryslot said:

GYX, +1.1 departure, A real scorcher for June.

Back half torch, that’s all that matters.

[HIPPYVALLEY]

37 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

There's a couple that want 60 and rain. 

Maybe it reminds them of Christmas?

[ineedsnow]

47 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

We gfs for the 4th

we don't use the GFS anymore remember

[ROOSTA]

This comment is not political in any way shape or form.
Why is the General Public losing (already paid for) access to data? NOAA and the NWS is undergoing budget cuts. 

SAD, so sad the day might come that the Commerce Dept. is defunded, no research and thus weakening predicting lifesaving events.
WTF is going on.      

[Typhoon Tip]

5 minutes ago, ROOSTA said:

This comment is not political in any way shape or form.
Why is the General Public losing (already paid for) access to data? NOAA and the NWS is undergoing budget cuts. 

SAD, so sad the day might come that the Commerce Dept. is defunded, no research and thus weakening predicting lifesaving events.
WTF is going on.      

the reason is a political backed decision by the present administration, tho

[butterfish55]

15 minutes ago, ROOSTA said:

This comment is not political in any way shape or form.
Why is the General Public losing (already paid for) access to data? NOAA and the NWS is undergoing budget cuts. 

SAD, so sad the day might come that the Commerce Dept. is defunded, no research and thus weakening predicting lifesaving events.
WTF is going on.      

Are we Great yet?

[dendrite]

81.4°

Heat has been kinda meh up here today despite full sun. Only 85° at CON so far. 

[Typhoon Tip]

feels very warm to me.   86 to 89 at most home/non-official sites, enough en masse that combined with almost nill movement to the air and intense insolation, that's pushing it

[weatherwiz]

Just now, Typhoon Tip said:

feels very warm to me.   86 to 89 at most home/non-official sites, enough en masse that combined with the sensible appeal out there ...it's legit.  With almost nill movement to the air and intense insolation, that's pushing it

It's been a great gradual increase in warmth/humidity through the day. Working outside and I've really felt this increase in the last few hours. The sweat slowly develops and you can feel yourself starting to stick to the leather chair all so slowly...its like applying a fine strip of super glue to a broken piece of glass. My shorts are that glue 

[Typhoon Tip]

8 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

It's been a great gradual increase in warmth/humidity through the day. Working outside and I've really felt this increase in the last few hours. The sweat slowly develops and you can feel yourself starting to stick to the leather chair all so slowly...its like applying a fine strip of super glue to a broken piece of glass. My shorts are that glue 

heh  okay.  

yeah, i guess to each is his own.  i just am sitting here working from home precariously nearing turning on the cooling dial on the mini splits.   it's gone above comfort.  

 

[dendrite]

Heat indices run of the mill

[tamarack]

1 hour ago, dryslot said:

GYX, +1.1 departure, A real scorcher for June.

About +1.35 here.  We were +1.6 by 6/6 and the final 24 days were almost exactly average despite last week having days of +13, +12 and -13.  Whipsawn

[Damage In Tolland]

Yeah clouds today killed 90 in SNE

[Typhoon Tip]

can you imagine if the present gaggle of corruption actually possessed intelligentsia and mole'd their way into the modeling framework ?