May 2026 Obs/Discussion

[Typhoon Tip]

29 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Good agreement now 

Finally ... a chart that agrees with your sentiment from earlier - nice !

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4 hours ago, dendrite said:

Worried about another frost/freeze the next two nights. It’ll be close. 

Man.. can't wait for this winter to finally be over -

[NoCORH4L]

https://www.masslive.com/news/2026/05/drought-conditions-in-mass-worsen-after-brief-improvement.html

 

Not great news going into the dry season. Many ponds and reservoirs still kinda low I've noticed. Except in Baldwinville and Otter River......

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Hopefully we can lay down 2 to 3" of basin coverage from that nor'easter on Thursday ...

[powderfreak]

Had light snow and graupel again today at 1,500ft.

Dew points in the low to mid-20s have been quite effective at evaporationally cooling the cores of the showers.

[vortex95]

3 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

I know when to get excited.  I definitely would not say ripping at S-.....but Ineedsnow will.  

I still think you should be more than happy Weymouth got two 20"+ "white gold" events in one season this past winter.  I bet that has not happened more than 10x in last 60-70 years in the immediate area.

Let me put it this way, nothing even remotely close like this happened in the 80s.  Scott used to get mad as a kid when he expected 4-8" fcst by WBZ on the "backlash" and he'd wake up next morning to sunny conditions!  "I WANTED NO 'SKEWL' !!!"

I had my share.  I recall on NOAA Wx Radio, NWS BOS would say "the storm failed to develop."  This was a fcst like 24 hr out.  Storms don't just "fail" like that in such short range.  It was the stupid LFM model turning flat waves into 980 mb S+ events!  It had so many problems w/ convective feedback.  The NGM out by 1985 largely took care of his problem, but Scott still called it the "NO GOOD MODEL!" 
 

[vortex95]

1 hour ago, NoCORH4L said:

https://www.masslive.com/news/2026/05/drought-conditions-in-mass-worsen-after-brief-improvement.html

 

Not great news going into the dry season. Many ponds and reservoirs still kinda low I've noticed. Except in Baldwinville and Otter River......

"Worse after brief improvement" from the article.  Yes, slight up and downs week-to-week. Why is this news?  It is always oscillating like this.  How is that any different than when it is wet and then "less wet" for a period?  Taking about it constantly does not make it physically any worse of better, but they don't care.  Anything to hype the negative.

Today is the 12th day in a row w/ measurable precip in New England.

12z ECMWF now showing up to 3.5" for the upcoming slow-moving storm.  All other global models show widespread 1-2" across the region.

The point is taking snapshot week-to-week is excessive in this case.  It's not like w/ are baking day after day w/ full sun and high evaporation rates.
 

[vortex95]

3 hours ago, powderfreak said:

The 3/4-1.5sm -SN is probably one of the more over-stated weather obs by all.

I mean, it can be 1”/hr though too with even decent snow growth at 3/4-1sm.  So sometimes hard to fault folks.

I will say if any of us started seeing 1.5sm vis -SN right now we’d say it was ripping out, lol.  When you haven’t seen snow in a while, a mile and a half is a steady snowfall.

If it is not 1/4SM VV001 +SNFZFG, Scott be like "MEH!"