May 2026 Obs/Discussion

[dendrite]

17 minutes ago, ineedsnow said:

If we can manage heavier rates.. might be a few cat paws mixed in.. would be cool to see anyways

I’d honestly be cheering it on if it was June. But I’ve seen plenty of mid to late May flakes the past couple of decades…granted this would be the latest. 

[CoastalWx]

19 minutes ago, ineedsnow said:

If we can manage heavier rates.. might be a few cat paws mixed in.. would be cool to see anyways

Unless I’m getting pasted, I’ll pass on mangled crap. Why can’t this be on a weekday.

[ineedsnow]

6 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Unless I’m getting pasted, I’ll pass on mangled crap. Why can’t this be on a weekday.

I work weekends that's why 

[Modfan2]

Gold tournament in Foster RI Sat afternoon should be fun; glad it’s not an AM start.

[WinterWolf]

11 hours ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

It will be like winter enthusiasts losing half of December.   

Late May is the equivalent of late November on the other end…so this isn’t even that.  If this were June 8-10 and this happened maybe.    What folks fail to realize…just as they do in late November(which is still very much autumn), is that Late May is very much still spring in New England, and this crap happens here.  Everybody is always in a rush to bring in the next season…it don’t work that way on either end. 

[Ginx snewx]

25 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

Late May is the equivalent of late November on the other end…so this isn’t even that.  If this were June 8-10 and this happened maybe.    What folks fail to realize…just as they do in late November(which is still very much autumn), is that Late May is very much still spring in New England, and this crap happens here.  Everybody is always in a rush to bring in the next season…it don’t work that way on either end. 

25⁰ windchill at Scooters house.  Family gathering in the living room huddled together with winter gloves hats and heavy blankets is so far from normal. Like a 75⁰ turkey day.

[Damage In Tolland]

Top 10 warmest spring for most sites  Congrats folks! 

[SouthCoastMA]

next 6 days including today

low 60s, 60s, 40s, 60s, 50s, 50s. where's the heat i was promised

[Brewbeer]

7 minutes ago, SouthCoastMA said:

where's the heat

I turned my boiler back on

[wxeyeNH]

I believe this is the morning of May 27 2013.  We had 3 hours of thundersnow and I measured 3.1" at my house at 1100 feet.  The top of my hill had 4".   This is the latest snow I have ever seen here.   Maybe if the rates are really good and it comes late at night we could see something happen.  It will be interesting...

[CoastalWx]

3K NAM trying to make Mt Tolland interesting 

[HoarfrostHubb]

I don't recall the latest I've seen accumulating snow... maybe Mother's Day 1977?

I know there was one in the early 2000's ... maybe 2004? in early May I think.

 

[ineedsnow]

8 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

3K NAM trying to make Mt Tolland interesting 

We pray 

[SouthCoastMA]

1 hour ago, Brewbeer said:

I turned my boiler back on

I'm the weird guy who just likes 70's and 80s, but instead is getting highs in the 45-63 range. I want what I was told was coming, even 80% of that. 

weenied for pointing out facts

[OrangeCTWX]

Beautiful morning here on block island. Beach weather. But the clouds just found their way here , because of course they would. 

[dendrite]

5 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

I don't recall the latest I've seen accumulating snow... maybe Mother's Day 1977?

I know there was one in the early 2000's ... maybe 2004? in early May I think.

 

May 2002

May 9, 2020 was 2” here

May 25, 2013 (event Gene mentioned) I had 0.4”

There’s been flakes in other scattered Mays

[ineedsnow]

Hopefully the heaviest precip trends west a bit.. without that we meh

[SouthCoastMA]

3K NAM has Mid/Upper 30s in NE CT midday Saturday. Ouch

 

[Damage In Tolland]

Thankfully that isn’t close to being correct and is all alone and is a discontinued model . I’m not really even expecting much rain. Maybe a few hundredths 

[ma blizzard]

crazy that most models drop the freezing level as low as 1500'-2000' between 12z - 15z Saturday morning for ORH county 

decent chance of flakes at the top of Watchusett at the very least 

[powderfreak]

11 minutes ago, dendrite said:

May 2002

May 9, 2020 was 2” here

May 25, 2013 (event Gene mentioned) I had 0.4”

There’s been flakes in other scattered Mays

Went XC Skiing May 18, 2002... had 2-4" in the Albany area.  Think the airport officially was 2.2".  The hilltowns above 1,000ft had 4-6".

[Chrisrotary12]

Saturday morning tee time canceled 

[HoarfrostHubb]

39 minutes ago, dendrite said:

May 2002

May 9, 2020 was 2” here

May 25, 2013 (event Gene mentioned) I had 0.4”

There’s been flakes in other scattered Mays

Yeah... I've seen flakes in later May, but nothing has accumulated here that I recall.

 

I just showed my students the NAM 10:1 just to make them sad...

[Typhoon Tip]

[Ginx snewx]

2 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Top 10 warmest spring for most sites  Congrats folks! 

Repost June 1

[kdxken]

Been hit with a few of the pop-ups. Drops the temp into the '50s temporarily.

[dendrite]

11 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Repost June 1

It’s not going to change that much with 95% of the days already baked in.

[SouthCoastMA]

7 minutes ago, dendrite said:

It’s not going to change that much with 95% of the days already baked in.

I wonder if Eastern NE was cooler, and if higher nighttime lows skewed the mean out there. That said, I do know there were several hot days mixed in this month, especially further west. 

[weatherwiz]

Time to drop by and share a few of these 

   

[SouthCoastMA]

Jersey south was boiling, regardless