May 2026 Obs/Discussion

[vortex95]

4 hours ago, kdxken said:

 

This guy is a super hype-master.  Goes off the deep end w/ "heat dome" all the time.  Every ridge of high pressure is a heat dome even if there are no sig warm anomalies present.  Can't find big heat in North America?  He goes to Europe w/ hot wx/heat dome hype, as if it having hot wx and anomalies somewhere on the globe at any given time is unusual?

[dendrite]

His chocolate is overrated too

[weatherwiz]

Did anyone hear the boom? I did not

[BombsAway1288]

4 hours ago, dendrite said:

Sounds like a nice afternoon. Enjoy.

Yikes. What a tough go of it from him. He’s only 20 degrees too warm like every forecast has been 

[Torch Tiger]

4 hours ago, WxWatcher007 said:

I’ll take a Bob redux, please and thank you. 

Plus a side of Oct. 91

[Torch Tiger]

Gorgeous afternoon out there.  12z Euro still heavy with the Stein

[WxWatcher007]

Boom boom  

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2026/05/30/boom-heard-boston-massachusetts-social-media/?p1=hp_primary

[MJO812]

2 hours ago, vortex95 said:

This guy is a super hype-master.  Goes off the deep end w/ "heat dome" all the time.  Every ridge of high pressure is a heat dome even if there are no sig warm anomalies present.  Can't find big heat in North America?  He goes to Europe w/ hot wx/heat dome hype, as if it having hot wx and anomalies somewhere on the globe at any given time is unusual?

He is far from a hypster. He was a well known TV meteorogloist here in NYC. 

[dendrite]

17 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Boom boom  

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2026/05/30/boom-heard-boston-massachusetts-social-media/?p1=hp_primary

It’s hard to read social media. The american education system is scarily bad. 

[CoastalWx]

10 minutes ago, dendrite said:

It’s hard to read social media. The american education system is scarily bad. 

Clearly liberals caused this 

[kdxken]

25 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Clearly liberals caused this 

Absolutely. Now they've gone and ruined the America is Back celebration. 

 

[WxWatcher007]

54 minutes ago, dendrite said:

It’s hard to read social media. The american education system is scarily bad. 

Ironically, while all that was happening I was at the science center here with my niece. 

[MJO812]

1 hour ago, CoastalWx said:

Clearly liberals caused this 

They defintely did

[kdxken]

New family of coyotes. 

 

 

[Vinny Findley]

I heard the boom down here in Cranston. Me and my wife were watching TV and said WTF was that. Shook my house rattling the floor under my feet. Walked outside and a lot of people were out saying the same thing WTF was that.

https://www.golocalprov.com/news/new-nasa-confirms-loud-boom-was-fireball-that-sped-at-roughly-75-000-mph-and-fragmented?fbclid=IwdGRzaASIVgFjbGNrBIhV3mV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHtPN7FK7hxbtouDhTVHg_el3fXY0ttmFCYWR_enVVOGXcTwKKEVk1NF_xh1U_aem_1sWhSOcnHybclecUo0hm3w

[HIPPYVALLEY]

[Typhoon Tip]

7 hours ago, vortex95 said:

This guy is a super hype-master.  Goes off the deep end w/ "heat dome" all the time.  Every ridge of high pressure is a heat dome even if there are no sig warm anomalies present.  Can't find big heat in North America?  He goes to Europe w/ hot wx/heat dome hype, as if it having hot wx and anomalies somewhere on the globe at any given time is unusual?

He spent equal time in that discussing how the block was causing it to be cold

It was even. He may be all those things you say he is but he was fair in that particular whatever it is.

[40/70 Benchmark]

1.03" total rainfall.

[40/70 Benchmark]

11 hours ago, WxWatcher007 said:

I’ll take a Bob redux, please and thank you. 

Bob was a yawner for most.

[tunafish]

Thirty-eight point seven

First 30s in ten whole days

Outdoor shower time

[WxWatcher007]

2 hours ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Bob was a yawner for most.

It wasn’t high end regionally, but it was good enough for some excitement. That’s going to be hard to come by this season. I have extremely low expectations in the basin this season. 

[Torch Tiger]

lol

hurricane bob and eventually 1991 halloween forever changed the landscape   

[Torch Tiger]

3 hours ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Bob was a yawner for most.

It was far better than this last POS. no one should ever consider making a thread for that last one - mods dropped ball badly

[ineedsnow]

36 and frosty this morning.. 

[Modfan2]

Down to 34F here; good end to May: golfed in Tropical storm forced winds with a wind chill in the 30’s, heard the loud bang, only 0.09” of rain and low temps in the 30’s

[codfishsnowman]

43f at 3pm yesterday in death valley with changeable skies....40s most of the day, pretty wild for met summer

33-34f this morning for lows, not earth shattering but nice to see it can still happen

Congrats to those northern mass folks who saw anything from cat paws to brief burts of moderate to heavy wet non accumulating snow or a slushy coating...so cool in met summer

[codfishsnowman]

2 hours ago, ineedsnow said:

36 and frosty this morning.. 

So glad you experienced some snow yesterday! That was a cute little system.

[moneypitmike]

7 hours ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Bob was a yawner for most.

Mi casa was not part of the 'most' category. I haven't watched the whole thing, but  I'm located about 100 yards from the scenes  from minutes  17:00 - 20:00.  

Hurricane Bob drove a surge of 10 to 15 feet into Buzzards Bay. The Buzzards Bay shore east to Cape Cod was hardest hit. The highest surges, of 12 to 15 feet, were observed in Onset, Bourne, Mashpee and Wareham, at the head of Buzzard's Bay. Cove Road, in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts had 29 of 37 homes destroyed, while Angelica Point, Massachusetts lost 32 of 35 homes along the shore. Boat damage was significant, as many boats were torn from their moorings. 

 

[HoarfrostHubb]

4 hours ago, Torch Tiger said:

It was far better than this last POS. no one should ever consider making a thread for that last one - mods dropped ball badly

Do you mean yesterday’s storm?  It was a good event. Definitely thread worthy.  

[dendrite]

What a way to end May