May 2026 Obs/Discussion

[Typhoon Tip]

54 minutes ago, tamarack said:

80s in May happen most years here - only 4 of 28 failed to reach 80 and the median for May's warmest is 85.

As for this week, highs 50s-60s and frost advisory the next 2 mornings.

It's been 82 a small handful of early afternoons since early April... perhaps 3 with a smattering of 78s.  The vast majority of times it has been less than 62 by varying sullenness.   Not sure what the nocturnal biases have knocked out, but as Scott and I had noticed actually back in late March ( and still looks to be the case when cursory running down the numbers), we tend to be negative for 8 or so days back to back, then we get two 20+'s ...skewing the whole month positive.  Figuratively speaking

It's been a bullshit liar spring.  Cold and shitty, despite sun at times and fleeting bombastic warm days.  

The small handful of 80 days we've seen thus far also had DPs less than 50...  The dry air made them rad bleeders, tho. By the time old sol tickled the western tree tops we were already hemorrhaging. By an hour or so post the passage of the astronomical dusk boundary it plummeted to 60, and 38 by dawn.   This is no way to run a real warm up and is, sorry to admit using this word which I hate ... fake.  We haven't had the metallic warm feel to the atmosphere yet.  It feels like warm winter days with high spring sun?  

Miss the evenings whence the wind is warm during the glome light period that summer lingers before the twilight.  You know... pithy warmth.   Doesn't even have to be hot for f'sake.  Just confident your not radiating back to aching knuckles and stunted foliage.  

I think that changes soon enough. As I've advertised above and wasn't seemingly read by anyone  heh it appears this week's the last of the gaslight pattern bs 

[Typhoon Tip]

Looks like 1.5 or so hours of warming vibrant sun before CT gets cirrus plugged by that PA rollback...

Hopefully this stays S-SE of an HFD-BED line so it spares the Rt 2 folk but it probably fans enough mare's tails to keep our temperatures lower here, too.

[HoarfrostHubb]

13 hours ago, ineedsnow said:

1.75 drought over here

Nada at my house yesterday.  It was close though

[CoastalWx]

1 minute ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Nada at my house yesterday.  It was close though

More snow, more thunder…..Templeton is a magical place. 

[Damage In Tolland]

1 hour ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Yesterday that looked more plausible. 

Today's indicators more tamed to seasonal+ 

But you're putting up charts that are upper 80s... as a support for your 90+      Do you see the logical problem there?

 

Did you actually look at the maps one asks self 

[Typhoon Tip]

27 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

More snow, more thunder…..Templeton is a magical place. 

Those were CB's yesterday ... I noticed some of them crisp out into glaciation.   The 800 mb was -2 C... which is pretty low freezing heights.  Snow? no.. ha.  Hail, probably. 

Yesterday we made it to 72 here up underneath those low freezing heights. All that was missing was CAPE.  Because I'm a crushingly dweeby nerd, I hesitated in a moment coming out of Ace Hardware to be sexually aroused by a gnarly dark based CU that had a broadly expanding (est) 15kt top leaning E.  It was transitioning to ice with snow falling way up there.  Kind of like it was hybrid convection between cold virga CU and summer crispies.   I also noticed that the base elements had a tendency to move right of the upper tier lean, indicative of some at least modest positive helicity.

So given these obs... yeah... It was unstable and something was going to overachieve eventually with that sort of lapse rate in place.  The cell he's talking about went by N of here and we had some 32-ish mph wind gusts and a temp crash just before sun set.

[Typhoon Tip]

7 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Did you actually look at the maps one asks self 

Ah heh.   

dude, you gotta do better than that gaslight attempt against someone like me.   You're like a 5 year old thinking you're pullin' one over on your dad.  

[CoastalWx]

11 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Those were CB's yesterday ... I noticed some of them crisp out into glaciation.   The 800 mb was -2 C... which is pretty low freezing heights.  Snow? no.. ha.  Hail, probably. 

Yesterday we made it to 72 here up underneath those low freezing heights. All that was missing was CAPE.  Because I'm a crushingly dweeby nerd, I hesitated in a moment coming out of Ace Hardware to be sexually arouse by a gnarly dark based CU that had a broadly expanding (est) 15kt top leadning E.  It was transitioning to ice with snow falling way up there.  Kind of like it was hybrid convection between cold virga CU and summer crispies.   I also noticed that the base elements had a tendency to move right of the upper tier lean, indicative of some at least modest positive helicity.

So given these obs... yeah... It was unstable and something was going to overachieve eventually with that sort of lapse rate in place.  The cell he's talking about went by N of here and we had some 32-ish mph wind gusts and a temp crash just before sun set.

Yeah I noticed some TCU as well. Bit of humidity in the air so some instability certainly there.