Napril 2026 Discussion/Obs

[IrishRob17]

5 minutes ago, tamarack said:

Sliced and diced from your post.  (And I appreciate the info on climate and forecasting.)

A friend was a train fan - I think there's a mag by that name - and he had multiple albums filled with various engines doing various things.  Once he was a bit to close after a big snowfall and got slouced as the plow-fronted engine roared by.
When I was 5, I was headed toward train-fandom.  I knew more about trains back then than now, 75 years later.

Temp over 70 after a low of 30; another '40' diurnal.  Cut/split some firewood and worked up a good sweat.

Trains magazine is indeed still around. 

[CoastalWx]

46 minutes ago, dendrite said:

70.5F 

Way better than 36F catpaws

[powderfreak]

31F this AM, 73F this afternoon.

How you draw it up with 40+ diurnal swing and dry air.

[CT Valley Snowman]

Awesome day.  72 and sunny.  

[Damage In Tolland]

69.1. Hope to tickle 70

[dendrite]

NNE winning the day

[SouthCoastMA]

54.1° 

[weatherwiz]

2 tornado warnings for STL in like 90 minutes 

[ScituateMA]

5 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Are you all leaf out all trees?

South shore of MA has yet to leaf out directly on the coast. Ita crazy how far behind we are. Today was nice. Hoping we can get out of this coastal influence we've been stuck in for weeks

[WinterWolf]

2 hours ago, ScituateMA said:

South shore of MA has yet to leaf out directly on the coast. Ita crazy how far behind we are. Today was nice. Hoping we can get out of this coastal influence we've been stuck in for weeks

Wow..that’s way behind.  Foliage Filling in nicely here…73 on the way to the gym at 3:45

[Damage In Tolland]

8 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

Wow..that’s way behind.  Foliage Filling in nicely here…73 on the way to the gym at 3:45

We summer 

[WinterWolf]

30 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

We summer 

Well we spring nicely today that’s for sure.  Tomorrow looks decent too.  

[kdxken]

44 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

Well we spring nicely today that’s for sure.  Tomorrow looks decent too.  

Enjoy. After that it looks pretty much like a ass for a good bit.

[powderfreak]

Got up to 75F in the valley after a sub-freezing morning.

Could do this weather for months.

[dendrite]

Yup...28F to 74F at BML today. Love to see it.

[powderfreak]

46F in the northern valleys, but the sandy SE MA soil is radiating better so far.  Low-40s there.

[vortex95]

21 hours ago, weatherwiz said:

what an environment that will be in place across eastern Missouri today. CAMs have been incredibly nasty around the STL market. Going to be wild there today

Big bust for tors.  PDS tor watch and MEH.  When the PDS watch was issued, it took several hours even to have a single tstm in it!

[vortex95]

20 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

Pattern blows. Getting 70 in may is meh. Constant troughing with shit settling in later this week. 

Stop complaining.  We do need the rain!

[dendrite]

Min 37.8F

lol at BTV this morning

[CoastalWx]

Back from Sanibel. Meh to mass lol. 
 

Went to Fort Myers beach before our flight home last evening to kill time. They are definitely slower to recover vs Sanibel. There were a lot of lots that you could tell were wiped clean and not rebuilt. A few dilapidated structures still remaining as well. Sad to see on such a nice beach. Real estate is still really high priced as well which surprised me. I thought it would be a little cheaper, but I guess not. 

[CoastalWx]

I know the guy from Scituate showed those trees, but leaf out processing nicely here. Need to mow.

[weatherwiz]

1 hour ago, vortex95 said:

Big bust for tors.  PDS tor watch and MEH.  When the PDS watch was issued, it took several hours even to have a single tstm in it!

I was initially shocked to see the PDS tornado watch, especially given it was south of where the best overlap of ingredients seemed to be and even south of the moderate risk which was for the higher tornado probs. I wonder if the lack of upper-level forcing was a big culprit in this...those situations are always a challenge because too much forcing (or too strong) and you'll have convection developing all over the place making it difficult for convection to become mature enough and utilize the environment fully. Probably should throw in capping too...that EML may have been a bit too strong (coincident with the weaker forcing). This may have been a huge issue even in Missouri...many of those cells were really trying to take off but something was impeding those updrafts from really taking off. 

[CoastalWx]

Second big bust this year 

[Damage In Tolland]

I like big busts and I cannot lie?

[kdxken]

Glad we didn't install.

[dendrite]

7 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

I like big busts and I cannot lie?

Oh my god, Ditty, look at that PDS watch, it is sooo big

[Brian5671]

17 minutes ago, kdxken said:

Glad we didn't install.

most of that is well to our west.  

[Brian5671]

1 hour ago, CoastalWx said:

Back from Sanibel. Meh to mass lol. 
 

Went to Fort Myers beach before our flight home last evening to kill time. They are definitely slower to recover vs Sanibel. There were a lot of lots that you could tell were wiped clean and not rebuilt. A few dilapidated structures still remaining as well. Sad to see on such a nice beach. Real estate is still really high priced as well which surprised me. I thought it would be a little cheaper, but I guess not. 

My parents live about 20 miles south of Ft Myers-while they had some flooding at the Naples Beach the city was largely spared the damage just to the north.   Amazing how 20 miles makes all the difference if you're not in the eyewall.

[Typhoon Tip]

All these offices incurred staffing losses when we made 'merica fuckin' awesome agin'. 

I'm sure SPC, being under the NOAA umbrella, are in a similar situation where top-down imposed cuts erode their abilities?   That'd be my high confidence guess, considering there's been articles written about how staffing cuts lent to poorer hurricane this and that, too... It's a pervasive problem that we the mouth breathers, in order to form a more perfect union, had the audacity to believe would get us anywhere closer to that description. 

This facet of the times we are in ...hasn't gone away.   Yet we keep having these post where we are surprised this and that.  No ... we are not surprised.

What we all are is disconnected, in all aspects of the reality we create at a civilization level, from the consequences of our collective actions - apparently..

This can be easily proven.  Well, by this shit above... But it can be proven by the predicament of anthropomorphic -induce CC and the enabled, unabashed denialism ... which really is so detached from objective reality - well, put it this way, that same compos mentis voted a convicted felon to be president.  'Nough said.   It can be proven by everything in between.  

This is also part of the most probable Fermi Paradox explanation, "where is everyone" ( meaning civilizations in the cosmos).  Probably every advancing civilization in the universe hits this dilemma eventually.  Most fail the test. The rest of the missing ... likely related to the fact that a single light year's worth of physical distance is so vast it too greatly exceeds human capacity to dimensionalize just how far that is - viable worlds are separated by too many 10s to definitely too many thousands of them.  Try to imagine traveling at 183,000 miles in one second, for 4.5 years, in perpetuity - you really can't, and that's our nearest solar system neighbor. 

Civilizations innovate the ability to survive in this seemingly, universally constructed isolation...("agency" tongue-in-cheek), and that innovation then exceeds the background trials and tribulations of the pure biological-Darwinian requirement, -----> resting in relative affluence is unavoidable as Nature, including all life, abide the universal physical Law of Least Action. Such that the Law of Lessening Returns kicks in. Apathy and sloth take over.  This creates a nonchalance to morality and virtuosity, too.  This enabling to flout advice and act sort of recalcitrant to the objective reality and truth that our grand kids are less likely to survive ( ironically...), than we are, due to  ecological breakdowns that apparently have to fuckin' happen before the 90th percentile dipshits admit it...  won't be obvious until we all see them dropping dead. 

Basically ... culminating in a veritable carelessness with dad's species gun scenario. 

That'd be a cool scene in a sci fi cinema, whence interstellar aliens happen by our solar neighborhood and detect a world with bio-markers... so, they come check it out. What they find makes Shelley's "Ozymandia" the best metaphor to describe. 

[WinterWolf]

What the hell is that RAMBLING BS in the prior post?  Holy smokes what utter nonsense.