May 2026 Obs/Discussion

[Ginx snewx]

Just now, dendrite said:

It doesn’t have a temp below 50° for me for the entire forecast period, yet we had frost this morning and another frost threat tomorrow.

Working on it 

[dendrite]

MOS mins for tomorrow AM. Cutting it close with the potted plants in the driveway.

[Ginx snewx]

6 minutes ago, dendrite said:

It doesn’t have a temp below 50° for me for the entire forecast period, yet we had frost this morning and another frost threat tomorrow.

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[powderfreak]

32F… kind of has a November vibe with not much greenery and still stick season.

Weird with the long daylight though.  Bring back the 70s.

[dendrite]

8 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

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A little better, but still seems too high compared to modeled 2m temps.

What’s up with those times too? Max temps are 03:00 and mins closer to 12:00 or 15:00. 

[dendrite]

2 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

32F… kind of has a November vibe with not much greenery and still stick season.

Weird with the long daylight though.  Bring back the 70s.

The 80s on Tuesday made a huge difference here. Trees started leafing out, fruit trees are flowering, and the catbird, orioles, and hummingbirds have returned. It just looks and sounds different out there.

[powderfreak]

15 minutes ago, dendrite said:

The 80s on Tuesday made a huge difference here. Trees started leafing out, fruit trees are flowering, and the catbird, orioles, and hummingbirds have returned. It just looks and sounds different out there.

Yeah we have started with some stuff and it was really just this week, but still largely sticks especially just out of the valley floor above 1,000ft.  I can tell it’s about to explode though.  Feel like we need another 1-2 days of sun and mild and it would go full green everywhere.  

[powderfreak]

Light snow/flurries up here at 1,500ft base of ski area, ha.  Phenomenal.

[HIPPYVALLEY]

Overcast, 44°.     

[dendrite]

1 minute ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Overcast, 44°.     

[mreaves]

41 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

32F… kind of has a November vibe with not much greenery and still stick season.

Weird with the long daylight though.  Bring back the 70s.

I'm with you.  Low of 31° here.  I'm so done with it.

[dendrite]

Mins this morn…lots of sub freezing temps in the valleys and north.

[powderfreak]

Ha, it’s like legit snowing now.

[Typhoon Tip]

1 hour ago, powderfreak said:

32F… kind of has a November vibe with not much greenery and still stick season.

Weird with the long daylight though.  Bring back the 70s.

it's a winter pattern in the curvature/geometric orientation, but the sun's forcing it's will ... such that the former is doing so around spring hydrostatic and non-hydrostatic heights.  

It's been this way all spring thus far.   80 F?   doesn't matter...  that's just the higher relative hydro and non hydro heights. And the fact that it never lasts longer than a day, no sooner and there's frost on the car tops so quickly - it's like a cutter pattern in January, just dong so with spring heights.  

Below is being forced by some sort of background/non-linear forcing that we've been plagued with for weeks. It's been the resting/return state ... unrelenting. We're still in winter.

We need to get away from this... 

These blue hydrostatic height lines keep laze faire drooping down as we're speeding toward the solstice and it's gotten rather anachronistically late. 

 

We don't have to be 87/63 ... But, lows both predominately and pervasively < 40F, even preceding "warm" afternoons (fake warmth that feels like it's bleeding out) is not going the right way and are just numbers and sensible appeals being created by a zombie winter baseline, hauntingly late. 

This, while the world is presently in 3rd place warmest ever (relative to date/CC).... too.   zomb!

 

[Ginx snewx]

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

A little better, but still seems too high compared to modeled 2m temps.

What’s up with those times too? Max temps are 03:00 and mins closer to 12:00 or 15:00. 

The issue is clear: the diurnal formula uses Math.cos with a period of 24 hours but the loop only iterates h += 3, so the hour correctly represents local time — but the run time starts at 12z UTC, not local time. This means the diurnal peak (2PM local) gets mapped to the wrong hours. Should be fixed.

 

[Ginx snewx]

20 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Ha, it’s like legit snowing now.

Congrats. We knew 

[Typhoon Tip]

It's also been going on since last October, too.   

All but one month, which is arguable anyway ..., were showing a plaguing cold anomaly, either in scalar extreme when not relative to the whole planet, situated over the eastern N/A latitudes .(.aka, us ) since late last autumn.  I've been posting them since mid winter.  NASA releases them around the 10th...  so April should be prepped soon.  I would not be shocked and in fact expect to see this has continued.   We may still be "above normal" ... or not.  But if we are, we will likely be still cooler than everywhere else. 

[Hoth]

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

The 80s on Tuesday made a huge difference here. Trees started leafing out, fruit trees are flowering, and the catbird, orioles, and hummingbirds have returned. It just looks and sounds different out there.

I saw four orioles yesterday. So great to have them back. No ruby-throats in my hood yet though.