May 2026

[ForestHillWx]

We also kicked the heat on the first floor zone last night. Currently 50 with light rain.

We put up some decent numbers from 4-8:30 a.m; over an 1” now. 

[uofmiami]

1.30” in Syosset so far.

[SACRUS]

55/ 54 steady rain 1.67 in the bucket.   Miserable day  / Memorial Day weekend.   Rain looks to taper off by 2:00 for most sooner west.  HIghs capped in the 50s today.  Pokes of sun , showers and back to the 70s for Memorial Day itself. Clouds lingering Tue/Wed for the most part but much warmer .  Sunny by Thu and near normal.  Weekend cut off has hopefully trended more north and less chance of unsettled weather in a week 5/30 - 5/31, but not 100% sold we dont have another potential ruined weekend.   Ridge building east and this more stuck up Omega-ish pattern should flatten and next round of warmth / potential heat 6/4 - beyond.

 

[SACRUS]

Records:

Highs:

EWR: 93 (1964)
NYC: 93 (1975)
LGA: 91 (1964)
JFK: 86 (1964)


Lows:

EWR: 40 (1963)
NYC: 39 (1963)
LGA: 41 (1963)
JFK: 41 (1963)

Historical:

1807: 10 inch diameter hail was reported at Knoxville, TN. In addition, a tornado reportedly sucked fish out of a creek. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

1865: A severe hailstorm near Olathe, KS reportedly caused one fatality. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

1877: Heavy snows occurred over parts of the northeast and New England. 4 inches of snow fell in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.

1894 - Six inches of snow blanketed Kentucky. Just four days earlier as much as ten inches of snow had fallen across Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. Six days earlier a violent storm had wrecked nine ships on Lake Michigan. (David Ludlum)

1896: An F4 tornado passed just north of Des Moines, IA during the late evening. As many as 7 members of one family were killed at the north edge of Valeria, IA. They were caught in the open, running to the storm cellar. Five others died in a nearby home. A steel railroad rail was reportedly driven 15 feet into the ground. The death toll was at least 21. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

1925: Cool weather settled in across the upper Midwest causing low temperatures to fall near the freezing mark in some locations. On this date, Chicago, IL dropped to 37°. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

1930 - A tornado touched down near the town of Pratt, KS, and traveled at the incredibly slow speed of just 5 mph. (The Weather Channel)

1940 - Hail fell near Ada OK to a depth of six to eight inches, and rainfall runoff left drifts of hail up to five feet high. (The Weather Channel)

1987 - Severe thunderstorms in southwest Texas spawned a couple of tornadoes near Silverton, and produced golf ball size hail east of the town of Happy. Thunderstorms also produced large hail and damaging winds in Louisiana and Texas. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)

1988 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather in the southeastern U.S. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 88 mph at Columbia, NC. Baseball size hail was reported near Tifton GA. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

1989 - Thunderstorms developing ahead of a cold front produced severe weather across the Upper Midwest through the day and night. Thunderstorms spawned 30 tornadoes, and there were 158 reports of large hail and damaging winds. A strong (F-3) tornado caused five million dollars damage at Corning, IA, and a powerful (F-4) tornado caused five million dollars damage at Traer, IA. Thunderstorm winds gusting to 88 mph killed one person and injured five others at Stephensville, WI. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

1990 - Severe thunderstorms spawned two dozen tornadoes from Montana to Oklahoma. Four tornadoes carved a 109-mile path across central Kansas. The third of the four tornadoes blew 88 cars of an 125-car train off the track, stacking them three to four cars high in some cases, and the fourth tornado caused 3.9 million dollars damage. The third tornado injured six persons who were trying to escape in vehicles. A woman was "sucked out" of a truck and said that at one time she was "airborne, trying to run but my feet wouldn't touch the ground". She also saw a live deer "flying through theair". (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

1992: Philadelphia, PA experienced dramatic temperature drop from early afternoon high of 80 to late afternoon readings in the 40s. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

2000: Lubbock, TX soared to 109° for their hottest May temperature on record. Midland, TX tied their highest May temperature record with 108°. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

2002: The last measurable snow for the season fell at Marquette, MI. This brought the city's seasonal snowfall to 319.8 inches, by far the city's snowiest winter ever. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

2004: A hailstone measuring 6 inches in diameter with a circumference of 16.5 inches fell from a supercell thunderstorm at Meadville, MO. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

[SACRUS]

Once past this Memorial weekend awfulness  a drier week ensues with the brunt of the rains / heavy into the southeast.  Still would watch next weekend as the cutoff may still produce some unsettledness between Fri - Sun 

 

[SACRUS]

[TWCCraig]

1.29" in Bay Shore so far

Out here we've only had 5 days this month with a max above 70 degrees (ISP). That's the lowest amount since 2017. Average is around 9 to 10 days through 5/24. All that considered, the monthly temperature departure is +1.0° through yesterday even though we've had more below normal days than above. The warm weather this past week skewed the averages higher

Days 70°+ in May thru 5/24 at ISP:

1	2005-05-24	1	0
2	1990-05-24	2	0
-	1968-05-24	2	0
-	1967-05-24	2	0
5	2003-05-24	3	0
-	1984-05-24	3	0
-	1983-05-24	3	0
-	1973-05-24	3	0
9	1997-05-24	4	0
-	1978-05-24	4	0
-	1976-05-24	4	0
12	2026-05-24	5	1

 

Departures through May 23rd:

KNYC: +0.6

KLGA: +0.5

KEWR: +1.7

KISP: +1.0

KBDR: +0.8

[WestBabylonWeather]

55 minutes ago, SACRUS said:

Once past this Memorial weekend awfulness  a drier week ensues with the brunt of the rains / heavy into the southeast.  Still would watch next weekend as the cutoff may still produce some unsettledness between Fri - Sun 

 

If next weekend is rainy that will be very displeasing 

[MANDA]

Rain all but over out this way.  Clouds will linger along with some mist and drizzle.  

Event total here as of 8am = 1.55".

Temperatures have been in the mid to upper 40's for about 36 hours.  Just now popped to 50 degrees.  

Spread fertilizer on Friday afternoon and nice slow rain was perfect to soak it in.

Nice soaking sub forum wide.