May 2026 Obs/Discussion

[CoastalWx]

1 minute ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Did you write “I love you “ on the pollen on the furniture to the family?

Hasn’t been too bad with the lighter bout of rain. But oak dong season is here.

[dendrite]

Min 52.9°

Could get some showers although it’s mostly north of here

[dendrite]

Haha yeah the weekend turned into a mess.

Hopefully that fucks up everyone’s fireworks. 

[Ginx snewx]

10 hours ago, powderfreak said:

Yeah even from Southbridge/Sturbridge to Woodstock… elevation is only like 250ft to 750ft (but urban to cornfields/forests) and it’ll go from 90F to 83F.  Lebanon Hill Road drops like a degree every quarter mile, ha.

Same here. Forests definitely help with cooling. Really hating all the stripped Forests to put up Solar Panels farms

[BrianW]

2 hours ago, moneypitmike said:

Was in Waltham and Brookline yesterday......car registered 88 and 99 in the two locations.

Meanwhile we hit 71* at the new Pit1 in Mattapoisett.  I'll take it.

My sister has a rental house out on Pt Judith in Narragansett. I spent last spring/early summer living there and working on it. Place is like 60 degrees all the time. I would drive up to Home Depot near Providence and its like a 30-35 degree difference.

Took this screenshot yesterday. Me and my brother in law setup a Wunderground station. Its the 60 degree reading on the bottom. Place barely even hits 80 in July/August.

 

[Damage In Tolland]

5 minutes ago, BrianW said:

My sister has a rental house out on Pt Judith in Narragansett. I spent last spring/early summer living there and working on it. Place is like 60 degrees all the time. I would drive up to Home Depot near Providence and its like a 30-35 degree difference.

Took this screenshot yesterday. Me and my brother in law setup a Wunderground station. Its the 60 degree reading on the bottom. Place barely even hits 80 in July/August.

 

Sounds like an absolutely awful place . Who wants that in summer?

[BrianW]

@Damage In Tolland

Looks like your friends are active..

[dendrite]

g***y

lol

[dendrite]

21 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Same here. Forests definitely help with cooling. Really hating all the stripped Forests to put up Solar Panels farms

2B people in 1950. Over 8.5B now. And they’re worried about the birth rate?

[dendrite]

Breaks of sun now. Probably a late afternoon/early evening high as the WAA kicks back in. Then we steambath for 24-36hrs. 

[Damage In Tolland]

11 minutes ago, BrianW said:

@Damage In Tolland

Looks like your friends are active..

I haven’t seen any but there are a ton of the tiny green silkworms up there. Lots of holes in the Oak leaves already. We e had a lot of them the last few years . They have defoliated entire trees but do a number . Hopefully this is the year.

Where was that person from that posted that in CT? Probably Ginx area 

[Typhoon Tip]

I wonder if the polar jet is just going to continue careening straight through to the fall for fuck's sake

it won't stop.   So this is turning into just another prick tease warm up  - yet again.  At least it's more than a single day I suppose. 

But that's an October circulation ordeal after the front Thu/Fri. Then the weekend's obliterated by cold overrunning with a high banked N. 

F grade for very warm season respective -

[BrianW]

27 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

I haven’t seen any but there are a ton of the tiny green silkworms up there. Lots of holes in the Oak leaves already. We e had a lot of them the last few years . They have defoliated entire trees but do a number . Hopefully this is the year.

Where was that person from that posted that in CT? Probably Ginx area 

Yeah. Northeast corner. That area always gets crushed by them. 

[Typhoon Tip]

Wasn't even a BD ... It was a N-S sag front.   But I mentioned this yesterday.  May not be as warm in the E.

Do the temps still in the 60s E of 95 and 70s E of ORH for a while..?  Winds are light behind this front and there's not a whole helluva lot of actual cold transport with that.  Shallow layer... Sun could eat it up by lunch, but with the winds in situ E and ENE already, I'm just wondering if the cold ocean anomaly might not be in the MOS/machine coverage very well. 

Day's long tho.  The NAM is insisting the boundary collapses back NE, showing a sfc SW wind burst at Logan in the 21 to 24hr period of early evening.  Late high for eastern zones. 

[CoastalWx]

Pretty steady east wind here. But yeah winds go south later today. Probably will see it in the form of the S coast seabreeze surging northward on radar. 

[Typhoon Tip]

5 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Pretty steady east wind here. But yeah winds go south later today. Probably will see it in the form of the S coast seabreeze surging northward on radar. 

Something's off...

these higher res model types look too warm given Esty beasties off glacial guts water.  They're all doing this sort of look by 18z  tho.  huh

[SouthCoastMA]

Pray the AI models are correct for the weekend. Thats how you would salvage 2 of 3 days 

[Modfan2]

41 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

I wonder if the polar jet is just going to continue careening straight through to the fall for fuck's sake

it won't stop.   So this is turning into just another prick tease warm up  - yet again.  At least it's more than a single day I suppose. 

But that's an October circulation ordeal after the front Thu/Fri. Then the weekend's obliterated by cold overrunning with a high banked N. 

F grade for very warm season respective -

I don’t disagree, I think we see brief 3-4 days of hot weather then drop back to normal or slightly below.

[HoarfrostHubb]

1 hour ago, Ginx snewx said:

Same here. Forests definitely help with cooling. Really hating all the stripped Forests to put up Solar Panels farms

New England forests (and wildlife) have made a remarkable comeback in the last 100 years.  Mass is now something like 65% forested.  I think it was down to 25% at one time

[Typhoon Tip]

14 minutes ago, Modfan2 said:

I don’t disagree, I think we see brief 3-4 days of hot weather then drop back to normal or slightly below.

Yeah and I'm not predicting a torpedoed summer per se.  Just annoyed by it, because I don't like BN weather in late spring and summer heh ... kind of a snarky post.  

But it does appear the polar jet is unusually strong and guiding the pattern still as we get pretty damn late in the spring here.  If I were capable of completely divorcing personal druthers from it all, I guess it's gotta be interesting to have that taking place in +d(Climate)

[Typhoon Tip]

39 minutes ago, SouthCoastMA said:

Pray the AI models are correct for the weekend. Thats how you would salvage 2 of 3 days 

Not that you asked 'how' but what's happening in those guidance formulations is something more akin to the 00z GFS' aggressively suppressed version overall.  BN, but dry results.

Which ...I'd take that as a compromise over a wet dildo flogging as though the Canadian and European forecast offices conspired and directly parameterized their models to specifically target and destroy Mem Weekend for joy destruction.  haha

I guess for now... solace in the notion that it's 120+ hours away so maybe the shits models runs'll change.

[Damage In Tolland]

How many times do we see this ? People freak and wring hands in consternation over a rainy weekend 5 days out and come verification time it’s one day or part of a day wet and the rest of the time is fine . And then you see posts like .. well this wasn’t bad at all … where’s the rainy weekend etc . Same will happen with MDW

[Typhoon Tip]

...that'd be an interesting war -tech.    Imagine a distant future world where weather modification replaced forecasting.  Other than ruining this pastime ... maybe such a realm would include the WMD, Weather Machine of Destruction that throws big storm bombs at enemies. 

I dunno, where the hell is the end goal of Quantum Computing and what does that look like?  

 

[Typhoon Tip]

17 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

How many times do we see this ? People freak and wring hands in consternation over a rainy weekend 5 days out and come verification time it’s one day or part of a day wet and the rest of the time is fine . And then you see posts like .. well this wasn’t bad at all … where’s the rainy weekend etc . Same will happen with MDW

About as many times as it actually happens

j/k.   yeah who knows.  There's nothing wrong with commiserating the modles

[SouthCoastMA]

Already 74° with a projected high of 74. 

[dendrite]

20 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

...that'd be an interesting war -tech.    Imagine a distant future world where weather modification replaced forecasting.  Other than ruining this pastime ... maybe such a realm would include the WMD, Weather Machine of Destruction that throws big storm bombs at enemies. 

I dunno, where the hell is the end goal of Quantum Computing and what does that look like?  

 

60° every Christmas morning for safe travel!

[Cyclone-68]

Is the severe threat for late Tuesday and Wednesday not worth mentioning?

[Typhoon Tip]

9 minutes ago, dendrite said:

60° every Christmas morning for safe travel!

Ho man.   The wonder of weather,  snuffed out.

we joke but there will be a weather modification future.   It's just too intuitively easy to see that.  Quantum Computing is basically going to expose at some point, how to force "the quantum computing of the cosmos" - so to speak.   That is, in any future where human tech does not stop the the future from taking place before getting there - oh yeah..that.

I mean just recall synoptic II and learning how/why chaos will never allow modeling to be very precise beyond whenever. Can't stop the spontaneity of emerging future feedbacks blah blah the prediction unavoidably corrupted.  Well, the easy antidote is ...don't try to predict that then.  Control it.  It seems quantum scale perturbation is a realm where actual Quantum Computing might be uniquely situated to control.     Seems that way anywho