Napril 2026 Discussion/Obs

[weatherwiz]

Just now, Damage In Tolland said:

Are your undies muddy?

Dried mud

[mreaves]

3 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

Yep. Getting ravaged. At least it’s sunny and not that windy.

Has the Pope's early summer call held up?  Seems a bit chilly

[SJonesWX]

14 minutes ago, mreaves said:

Has the Pope's early summer call held up?  Seems a bit chilly

WEEKS AHEAD OF LAST SPRING!!

[CT Valley Snowman]

50 here isn't terrible with the bright sun.  

[dendrite]

High 46.8°. Most of the snow is gone outside of shaded spots and piles.

[powderfreak]

6 minutes ago, dendrite said:

High 46.8°. Most of the snow is gone outside of shaded spots and piles.

Yeah up to 45F and it’s only left in shaded spots.

[Damage In Tolland]

7 minutes ago, dendrite said:

High 46.8°. Most of the snow is gone outside of shaded spots and piles.

ASOUT 

[dendrite]

50 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

ASOUT 

Glad we in and not on the water

[Damage In Tolland]

7 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Glad we in and not on the water

Worst time of year for the coast. Morch- June 

[ineedsnow]

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

High 46.8°. Most of the snow is gone outside of shaded spots and piles.

mine was gone by late yesterday afternoon.. still got piles from shoveling though and I made sure to put it all in one spot as high as I could..  

[vortex95]

Tubular vortex action near Logan Airport:
https://www.wcvb.com/article/unusual-boston-waterspout-video-pleasure-bay/70952510

The cause of these make sense (wingtip vortices from aircraft).  See here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViKYFsN3p24

They are not dust devils over water since it was cloudy and early in the day and these are too small in diameter really for conventional waterspouts.

I've seen videos before on small lakes under similar conditions, and I said then "it's too small for a true waterspout!"  So this explains it.

[kdxken]

Weather looks good for the next week or so. Also looks good at Augusta for the Masters. 

 

[kdxken]

An April to remember?

 

[Damage In Tolland]

No measurable next 10-14

Can we get some decent fires ?

[WinterWolf]

43 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

No measurable next 10-14

Can we get some decent fires ?

Let’s burn everything down dammit! 

[powderfreak]

1 hour ago, Damage In Tolland said:

No measurable next 10-14

Can we get some decent fires ?

Fire weather is nice, dry weather.  Would be nice to dry out.  Anywhere below the snow line is just soggy.

28F.

[Snowedin]

4 hours ago, dendrite said:

Glad we in and not on the water

Felt like a late-winter day out there with that chilly wind. Had to do a double take after checking the temp too. 36 for a high is pretty insane in early April, all whacked out climo aside. Of course, I’m sure when I go away for a family wedding late next week we’ll be torching into the 70s lol.

[kdxken]

25°. Coldest until next fall?

[CoastalWx]

Anything in the 20s this time of year is annoying AF. 

[dendrite]

Min 23°

That may be it for the hard freezes. 

[Spanks45]

21.9⁰ for the second morning in a row....can this be it now?

[HoarfrostHubb]

20 hours ago, vortex95 said:

Scott would be happy w/ this from 39 years ago.  Vicariously he would be impressed!

       4/3/1987
       A large, slow moving low pressure produced very heavy snows
        over the Appalachian Region starting on the 3rd and continuing
        into the 5th.  60 inches fell at Newfound Gap in western North
        Carolina -- the largest single storm snowfall in the state's
        history.  Up to 36 inches was reported in southeastern
        Kentucky.  The total of 25 inches at Charleston, West Virginia
        easily surpassed its previous record for the entire month of
        April of 5.9 inches.  The 20.6 inch total at Akron, Ohio
        established an all-time record for that location.  Interstate
        40 was closed by snow for the first time since it was opened
        20 years ago.  This storm also dumped heavy snow in central
        and northeastern Alabama.  Never before had a snowfall
        blanketed Alabama in April.  10 inches fell at Valley Head, 9
        inches piled up at Fort Payne, and Birmingham recorded 6
        inches.  Lightning and thunder accompanied the snow in some
        areas while snow flurries fell as far south as Mobile.  This
        was the first snow ever reported in the month of April in
        Mobile since records began in 1872.  The storm became known
        unofficially as the "Dogwood Snowstorm" in the state.

This same storm resulted in big flooding in New England.  I recall the Merrimack River at ULowell ragin'!

       4/4/1987
        New England was in the middle of its second heavy rainstorm in
        5 days.  This was the same storm that produced record snows in
        the Appalachians.  This storm dumped 4 to 7 inches of rain over
        the area and this, combined with snow melt and rivers already at
        bankfull, produced record flooding, especially in Maine.  2300
        homes were flooded in Maine with 215 totally destroyed.  Record
        water levels were reached at many dams.  Damage in the state
        alone reached 100 million dollars.

I was at ULowell for that.  I lived kind of far off campus and had to walk to classes.  The flooding meant I had to make a big, time consuming detour

[SouthCoastMA]

Low of 18° at KMVY.. about 24° here

Thats should about wrap up the last gasp of winter

[WinterWolf]

Let’s get these freezing morning the F outta here!  And don’t let the door hit em in the ass. 

[powderfreak]

1 hour ago, CoastalWx said:

Anything in the 20s this time of year is annoying AF. 

Luckily it’s largely fake.

[kdxken]

They finally stopped with the drought nonsense. 

 

[Torch Tiger]

3 minutes ago, kdxken said:

They finally stopped with the drought nonsense. 

 

it literally says L2 sig drought for the cape

[HoarfrostHubb]

Nice stretxch upcoming.  Noticed the first tiny leaves on maples in my yard yesterday evening.  A bit early maybe?

[Typhoon Tip]

44 .. up from 23

Probably heading for MOS+routine bust ticks.  Little or no wind and now late summer solar rad will certainly max out the nape factor. Psycho babble this will put mindsets and posting vibe some distance from this morning's disgruntling bite. 

I'm not sure it's the last of the freeze chances (season) though, due to further below... But yeah, the models do shows some elevating thickness out there.  It's just that the ambient polar boundary is still gradient packed and that's not a good look. 

Pattern is trying, but it is as though the models in an internal war to prevent seasonal change.  That's that tongue-in-cheek vibe in the current modeling cinemas.   The problem is ... it wouldn't look that way if we could just at last remove that 90/60 PV.  00z ensembles re-invigorated it, after a couple cycles whence it finally looked - after 7 months of it no less... - like it was going away.  Until that succeeds, we'll keep seeing these wild temperature ranges, S-N, at mid latitude continent.  We'll also suffer greater than normal BD in the means... I just recall at least 3 Mays since 2019 whence there were flurries at mid day with blown out virga cu passages, and I don't recall those years having this PV plague. 

Case in point,  this next Wednesday.  Seems with the above concepts in mind, then combining with base-line climo, there's a pretty good gamble that frontal arm ends up down near DCA with NE drill.  Right now, the models are tussling with a boundary, selling a precariously float near Brain or myself latitudes. But 1030 mb and +PP N of that boundary like that?  feels like a 10 year old wondering if Dad'll be mad when he gets home from work to find out he was playing with old man's gun

[dendrite]

28 minutes ago, kdxken said:

They finally stopped with the drought nonsense. 

 

We rage on