May 2026 Obs/Discussion

[dendrite]

1 hour ago, Damage In Tolland said:

I know who you’re referring to and even those 2 are not enjoying this today . One of them I guarantee is inside watching tv and the other one is probably sleeping 

ineeddonuts

[Damage In Tolland]

5 minutes ago, dendrite said:

ineeddonuts

Cod fishy 

[Damage In Tolland]

Broke into some solid sun now. What a difference 

[Typhoon Tip]

see...I think it's really just whether the sun is shining for a lot of return engagement in this social media.  I've come to find over the years there's a coherent increase in the complaint rate based on whether that is the case.   Less about temperature and more about sun.  Cloudy and dry....  'top ranked shit day' this and that.  All complaints more than just seem to settle off if the sun blasts through south facing windows

I have a stretch of cedar fencing coming in tomorrow ...I had to go out and prep the property line; pretty nasty job toiling in contaminated dirt and old human detritus.  This is kitty corner to an urban setting so it's not like rooting around in nature's regolith and bucolic Earth.  Pretty sure I was turnin dirt and exhuming plastic fragments from 1972 back there. Gross.   But I can say...dry and cloudy at 52 F?  It was a helluva bargain over having to do that toily task if were 80 F and humid.    ho man.   

it's all relative I guess

 

[klw]

5 hours ago, mreaves said:

Yeah even had a few flurries spitting here. 

We had a couple of rounds of graupel late morning while I was doing work outside

[dendrite]

Upper 40s and windy…a few glimpses of sun aren’t saving this day. 

[HIPPYVALLEY]

3 hours ago, Baroclinic Zone said:

Enjoy. Windy with off and on spits of rain here. Raw 50F

52° in Greenfield with some gusty wind.
I’m still stubbornly rocking the shorts though. 

[ineedsnow]

3 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said:

I know who you’re referring to and even those 2 are not enjoying this today . One of them I guarantee is inside watching tv and the other one is probably sleeping 

Today is great.. worked this morning and just cooked hamburgers on the grill.. how could you not like this..? It's refreshing and you're not sweating your balls off.. keep this all summer 

[Damage In Tolland]

18 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

52° in Greenfield with some gusty wind.
I’m still stubbornly rocking the shorts though. 

Shorts everyday all day since mid Morch 

[powderfreak]

1 hour ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Cod fishy 

40s all day and powered through with shorts on.  About half a dozen layers on the upper body though, ha.  Channeling my inner DIT.

[Chrisrotary12]

4pm on May 3 and it feels like 41 degrees. This blows

[powderfreak]

48/25 is apparently dry enough to get frozen down here… graupel and mangled chunky flakes for a 3 minute shower.  Dog came in with frozen pellets on her back.

[Damage In Tolland]

12 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

40s all day and powered through with shorts on.  About half a dozen layers on the upper body though, ha.  Channeling my inner DIT and DJT

We are more alike than you think! 

[tamarack]

Saw a patch of blue and temp climbed over 50, better than yesterday's high of 43.  (Avg high is 60.)  Had a few IP as rain arrived yesterday afternoon.

[Damage In Tolland]

The winter moth (tiny green caterpillars) came out today . All over the place with silky webs flying in the wind and can see the tiny holes in the not all the way out Oak leaves that blew down and squirrels are chewing portions of limbs off with the low acorn yield last fall. . Each year the winter moth caterpillars volume has increased over the last few years, so hoping this year they really hammer the Oak leaves to kill as many trees as possible .

[CoastalWx]

2 hours ago, ineedsnow said:

Today is great.. worked this morning and just cooked hamburgers on the grill.. how could you not like this..? It's refreshing and you're not sweating your balls off.. keep this all summer 

Eff this crap. Can’t wait for heat and dews through Christmas. 

[BrianW]

2 hours ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

52° in Greenfield with some gusty wind.
I’m still stubbornly rocking the shorts though. 

 

[VivaManchVegas]

4 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Broke into some solid sun now. What a difference 

It took 30 minutes of sun to change the "tude".  I think they call that sun angle.  

[ineedsnow]

1 hour ago, CoastalWx said:

Eff this crap. Can’t wait for heat and dews through Christmas. 

its coming soon enough so I'm trying to enjoy this as much as I can 

[HoarfrostHubb]

Went up to the summit of Pack Monadnock on a whim this afternoon.  Some nice views. Could see the Boston skyline, Monadnock, and in the second picture, if you zoom in, the Presidentials (I think) and Mt Washington 

[Torch Tiger]

4 hours ago, ineedsnow said:

Today is great.. worked this morning and just cooked hamburgers on the grill.. how could you not like this..? It's refreshing and you're not sweating your balls off.. keep this all summer 

In a few short weeks, you'll be sweating to the oldies in that sweltering warehouse oven 

[powderfreak]

5 minutes ago, Torch Tiger said:

In a few short weeks, you'll be sweating to the oldies in that sweltering warehouse oven 

I picture like the boiler room in the Titanic… shoveling coal into the fire.

[MJO812]

Snowing in Denver this week

 Road trip ?

[dendrite]

31 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

Snowing in Denver this week

 Road trip ?

Hitch a ride with lavarock and pick up vortex on the way

[ineedsnow]

1 hour ago, Torch Tiger said:

In a few short weeks, you'll be sweating to the oldies in that sweltering warehouse oven 

warehouse oven? 

[dendrite]

Was expecting 35-36 here in the morning, but it’s already 38.9° and clear. I really don’t want to bring all of the plants in.

[Torch Tiger]

1 hour ago, ineedsnow said:

warehouse oven? 

Gonna be a lot of this 

[dendrite]

34.0° 

[Torch Tiger]

8 minutes ago, dendrite said:

34.0° 

stay safe!

[Torch Tiger]

Yeah that last pope call - frost/freeze? a few weeks ago didn't age well, but we knew