May 2026 Obs/Discussion

[dendrite]

[ineedsnow]

1 hour ago, CoastalWx said:

Ineedsnow approved. 

In leominster and not much going on here.. looks like home is getting drenched though.. almost 2 inches the other day plus this.. things will green up quick now

[Typhoon Tip]

The heaviest rain this system ordeal has to offer may in fact come from this introductory band that Brian just showed there.

The whole system is closing off but that behavior is doing so over pallid gradients/weak baroclinicity, while the mid and upper heights are really filling as it closes ... not deepening further.  As it is pulling away, it even opens the trough back up and ends up almost washed out of the hemisphere by the next day as it's corps smears up over the Maritime.  [edit, it actually does go through another deepening phase up there but then right after it's disappears]

Systems tend to not score well in the course when they're limping into the final. 

The NAM's lower QPF all along may end up doing better in this.   The other models "might" be over producing QPF given weakening structure. It'll be interesting to see what happens with this.  It is still a closed circulation, tho maintaining a progressive movement ... but closed circulations may get a window of easterly anomaly which adds ... So both a lower and upper performance are true. 

[ineedsnow]

8 minutes ago, dendrite said:

If only it was snow 

[dendrite]

Great day for GYX radar to be down. 

[dendrite]

In the more changes dept…mesowest is doneski at the end of the year (maybe sooner).

https://mesowest.utah.edu/notice.html

[OceanStWx]

11 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Great day for GYX radar to be down. 

Had to make a tough call for a necessary 2 day outage. Bring her down for a widespread rain event where BOX could cover the most threatened area or bring her down in June when random thunderstorms could be too far away from other radars. 

By the way congrats on BOX being at least as good as GYX in the low levels for your area now that they dropped their lowest scan to 0.3 degrees.

[metagraphica]

Nothing but wet.    54 degrees.

[dendrite]

1 minute ago, OceanStWx said:

Had to make a tough call for a necessary 2 day outage. Bring her down for a widespread rain event where BOX could cover the most threatened area or bring her down in June when random thunderstorms could be too far away from other radars. 

By the way congrats on BOX being at least as good as GYX in the low levels for your area now that they dropped their lowest scan to 0.3 degrees.

I figured there was a good reason. I was kinda kidding anyway…it’s mostly just a synoptic rain.

I didn’t even realize they lowered that. Is it permanent or while GYX is down?

[OceanStWx]

Just now, dendrite said:

I figured there was a good reason. I was kinda kidding anyway…it’s mostly just a synoptic rain.

I didn’t even realize they lowered that. Is it permanent or while GYX is down?

Permanent change. I haven't seen the updated best coverage of the lowest scan maps yet, but I think we're now looking at BOX being the better radar from near PSM to Sunapee. The biggest change is we gain like 2000 feet of viewing near EEN, and ENX is basically no longer necessary to look at. 

[SouthCoastMA]

61.3° and Cloudy

salvageable day so far

[weatherwiz]

16 minutes ago, OceanStWx said:

Permanent change. I haven't seen the updated best coverage of the lowest scan maps yet, but I think we're now looking at BOX being the better radar from near PSM to Sunapee. The biggest change is we gain like 2000 feet of viewing near EEN, and ENX is basically no longer necessary to look at. 

Oh sick I had no clue either. That is awesome. 

That should even help reduce range folding issues in the CT Valley. Looks like the 0.3° tilt samples just below 5K in the Springfield area which is a good ~1.5k feet lower than what the 0.5° tilt samples. 

[dendrite]

49.9° +RA

1.01” since midnight 

[Typhoon Tip]

Wow... impressive 6 hour change Saturday morning in this new NAM grid. 

Walking through a summer doorway

[Damage In Tolland]

Will any few stragglers remain uninstalled?

 

[Damage In Tolland]

.82 this morning .Hopefully that’s about it here. Plenty of rain the last two weeks .

We have entered that week of the year when the lawn is at its best . Just like staring at snowbanks. Could stare at this all day. It’s all downhill from here as the summer diseases and heat will slowly encroach despite our best efforts. 

[TauntonBlizzard2013]

3 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

Looks like a gravy train for several hours near Kev and then another one near lunch time through even over far ern areas into SNH. Someone is getting 3-4” in the ern one…probably SNH.

Stein here