May 2026 Obs/Discussion

[WinterWolf]

11 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Literally every day at your place will be 80 or above. It’s a warm dry airmass . This is like last week when we said 90’s this week and posters said no 90’s 

I guess we’ll see…but I’m fine with 70’s. 

[40/70 Benchmark]

38 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

I'll tell ya tho ...whatever happens this weekend .. next week aside, until this crap stops, it ain't summer!  not even close.  I don't care wtf it was like the last 3 days ... not a summer hemisphere. 

 

You know, it's funny...Will and I have reflected on how we went several winter seasons without being able to buy for a +pp over southeast Canada....times started changing about 18 months ago.

[WinterWolf]

4 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Yea, I'm not sure why that was lost on Edgar Allen Poe over there.

The brain farts as we get older are real…. 

[HIPPYVALLEY]

16 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Literally every day at your place will be 80 or above. It’s a warm dry airmass . This is like last week when we said 90’s this week and posters said no 90’s 

Maybe get some drought talk going by next weekend?

[WinterWolf]

5 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

You know, it's funny...Will and I have reflected on how we went several winter seasons without being able to buy for a +pp over southeast Canada....times started changing about 18 months ago.

Yes sir.  In time everything comes back, just as the clippers did in a big way this past winter.   Just have to be patient. 

[Typhoon Tip]

10 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

It was odd prose, I guess I get it.

Nah ... I was being an idiot.    I don't know why I did not connect your post to what I just said - it was like a had a trans ischemic moment or something.

[tamarack]

54 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

Huh….?    You are wrong.  
 

2025-2026 winter was pretty dam good, two blizzards(one with single digit temps of 5-6 degrees), a 12/26 evening 9”er also with frigid temps. and very good cold all season..with good pack….that was pretty dam good imo.  

Even though we finished a couple inches below our average and missed the 2nd blizzard (0.2" - OceanStwx thanked me for establishing the north cutoff ), it was still a plus winter.  Most sustained cold since 18-19, good retention, 8.5" on 12/24 plus the Jan 25-27 fluff bomb, 19.6" from 0.77" LE.  Can't label it as blizzard as there was very little wind.

[tamarack]

51 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

uhmm ... can you help me parse out this sentence ^   ?

Maybe scratch out the 2nd thru 5th words?

[40/70 Benchmark]

25 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

Yes sir.  In time everything comes back, just as the clippers did in a big way this past winter.   Just have to be patient. 

One thing that hasn't snapped back as of yet is the increased speed of the jet sabotaging east coast storm cylogenesis....the January event was a cheat code for that because we had a great airmass slammed with a southwest flow aloft. Really only text book display of east coast cycolgen was the February blizzard that snipped my balls off.

[WinterWolf]

15 minutes ago, tamarack said:

Even though we finished a couple inches below our average and missed the 2nd blizzard (0.2" - OceanStwx thanked me for establishing the north cutoff ), it was still a plus winter.  Most sustained cold since 18-19, good retention, 8.5" on 12/24 plus the Jan 25-27 fluff bomb, 19.6" from 0.77" LE.  Can't label it as blizzard as there was very little wind.

The January fluff bomb had more wind here I think…now it wasn’t true blizzard…but we had very low visibility’s for a good amount of time in that one…with windy conditions at times…went out for a walk at the height(probably was a mistake lol), and couldn’t walk back to the house forwards, which was heading north into the snow, due to the wind driven snow here..and the cold was ferocious with 5 degree air temps, and  sub zero wind chills.  So that’s more what I mean. I took a little video…but I doubt I could upload it here. 

[WinterWolf]

1 minute ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

One thing that hasn't snapped back as of yet is the increased speed of the jet sabotaging east coast storm cylogenesis....the January event was a cheat code for that because we had a great airmass slammed with a southwest flow aloft. Really only text book display of east coast cycolgen was the February blizzard that snipped my balls off.

Ya..but that too will come back in time. Ya, Feb blizzard was a disappointment here too. Left a lot on the table here too. 

[weatherwiz]

2 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

The January fluff bomb had more wind here I think…now it wasn’t true blizzard…but we had very low visibility’s for a good amount of time in that one…with windy conditions at times…went out for a walk at the height(probably was a mistake lol), and couldn’t walk back to the house forwards, which was heading north into the snow, due to the wind driven snow here..and the cold was ferocious with 5 degree air temps, and  sub zero wind chills.  So that’s more what I mean. I took a little video…but I doubt I could upload it here. 

do you have a YouTube account? can upload there and post the link here

[40/70 Benchmark]

Just now, weatherwiz said:

do you have a YouPorn account? can upload dong pics and DM me

[WinterWolf]

3 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

do you have a YouTube account? can upload there and post the link here

No I don’t.  It’s a good video too…shows the blowing snow and low visibility.  That thing was so frigid too. 

[tamarack]

26 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

The January fluff bomb had more wind here I think…now it wasn’t true blizzard…but we had very low visibility’s for a good amount of time in that one…with windy conditions at times…went out for a walk at the height(probably was a mistake lol), and couldn’t walk back to the house forwards, which was heading north into the snow, due to the wind driven snow here..and the cold was ferocious with 5 degree air temps, and  sub zero wind chills.  So that’s more what I mean. I took a little video…but I doubt I could upload it here. 

From 7 AM thru 1:30 PM on Jan 26, we enjoyed some of the prettiest, and slowest falling (<2 ft/sec) feathers we've seen - 6.0" in 6.5 hours.  Walking on that 6" was like walking on air; I figured that the 6" had less than 0.2" LE and was shocked that it melted to only 0.08", or 75:1.  Twice I've had storms of 4.5" with just 0.10" LE, 45:1, and once a 1" dusting had only 0.01", but 6" at 75:1 was something I thought impossible. 
Jan 25-27 data:
25:    2  -13   0.17"    2.0"   15"
26:   10   -1   0.55"   17.0"   28"   (peaked at 30")
27:   15   -4   0.05"   0.6"   25