May 2026 Obs/Discussion

[tamarack]

41 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

It has happened before.  Highest temp in May (maybe even April for someone on here one year?)

April 28, 2009 hit 89, tops for that year.
In 28 years, we've had two months tying on 3 occasions and in 2010 the warmest (88°) was reached 5 times - May, July(2), August and September, hence the fractions below:
APR:    1
MAY:   3.2
JUN:   10
JUL:    9.4
AUG:   3.7
SEP:    0.7
Hottest here of 93 occurred on July 3 and September 9, 2002.

Low of 44, now approaching 80, but clouds have dimmed the sun.  We've gone from 5% leaf-out on Friday to 50% now and climbing; might be the quickest leaf-out I've seen.

[PhiEaglesfan712]

44 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

It has happened before.  Highest temp in May (maybe even April for someone on here one year?)

Yeah, 1976 was the year when the highest temp was hit in April, during the Easter heatwave, for many spots in New England, and as far south as Philly. Things turned cold very early that season, with October 1976-January 1977 being the coldest October-January on record. (The spring that followed was one of the warmest on record, despite a snow event on May 9-10.)

[Damage In Tolland]

Dew is 71

LFG!!

[Damage In Tolland]

22 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Man this is great stuff. Look how excited everyone is.

And we even get a Stein out of it all week!!

[CoastalWx]

8 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

And we even get a Stein out of it all week!!

Hoping for some rain today. Yard needs it. 

[CoastalWx]

89/75. David dew seems high, but we muggy.

[CT Valley Snowman]

87

[weatherwiz]

NBM not backing down at BDL tomorrow...13z run still throwing up 95

[wx2fish]

90.2 at 11am. Models ticked up to 19-19.5c or so at 850. Probably alot of 94-96s and maybe a tarmac 97 today

[WinterWolf]

Truck just now is at 91….

[SouthCoastMA]

Was kinda warm last night..need to put in the window a/c later. 

[Damage In Tolland]

1 hour ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

85 at home, 85 at work before 10AM   

Let's add 10!!!

Love to see how you’ve come around to loving the HHH. There’s not many ACATT left 

[Damage In Tolland]

14 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Hoping for some rain today. Yard needs it. 

We cooked here both days. Thankfully had the inch last week

[SJonesWX]

92/69 here. it is gross outside. everyone at work is bitching about it. every. single. person.

[Damage In Tolland]

5 minutes ago, SJonesWX said:

92/69 here. it is gross outside. everyone at work is bitching about it. every. single. person.

 

[moneypitmike]

83 at Pit2.

62 at Pit1

 

what a difference.

[Typhoon Tip]

93

[CoastalWx]

10 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

 

Hey yo….hey yo hey yo..

ACATT don’t want to step to me

With a dewpoint of 73

Dealing with temps of 93..

[Damage In Tolland]

It’s possible this is the hottest day of the summer .. especially with a raging hard Nino knowin for high dews but not high heat 

[CoastalWx]

93/75. I feel alive. 

[Chrisrotary12]

NH Seacoast Thunderstorm season engaged? 

[Typhoon Tip]

42 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

NBM not backing down at BDL tomorrow...13z run still throwing up 95

NAM seems to be delaying the front by 3 or so hours over priors...that might make the difference for HFD-LWM axis/E

[Typhoon Tip]

6 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

It’s possible this is the hottest day of the summer .. especially with a raging hard Nino knowin for high dews but not high heat 

Problem with that idea is that the NINO is not a raging hard one yet.  It's formulating... 

Now ...maybe that's enough?  I don't know. But having the NINO in place, already registering an influence in the atmosphere, which this isn't ...yet, is a different animal. 

[Damage In Tolland]

2 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Problem with that idea is that the NINO is not a raging hard one yet.  It's formulating... 

Now ...maybe that's enough?  I don't know. But having the NINO in place, already registering an influence in the atmosphere, which this isn't ...yet, is a different animal. 

It’s raging and hard.. it’s iron clad 

[Typhoon Tip]

I bet ORH pops 90

 

they're 88 for now but there's literally 0 inhibition to maximizing this bad boy today.

95 here... one more ob before noon proper

[weatherwiz]

2 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Problem with that idea is that the NINO is not a raging hard one yet.  It's formulating... 

Now ...maybe that's enough?  I don't know. But having the NINO in place, already registering an influence in the atmosphere, which this isn't ...yet, is a different animal. 

I have to agree with this. Perhaps there is some sort of relationship with how EL Nino's evolve during the summer and what we experience during the summer in terms of big heat or not, but strong(er) EL Nino events don't really become mature until we're in the dead of summer or even back half of summer. If anything, I would think the correlation would start showing as we moved into Fall

[Typhoon Tip]

2 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

It’s raging and hard.. it’s iron clad 

I think you might be conflating with your alternate life fantasy here -

[Damage In Tolland]

Congrats CT!

[weatherwiz]

1 minute ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Congrats CT!

Hopefully one of many

[Damage In Tolland]

1 minute ago, weatherwiz said:

Hopefully one of many

Day 4 of 90 this season and it’s Mayorch 19