Anomalous Late Spring storm May 30 2026

[Layman]

My son's flying into Logan and expected to arrive around 12:35pm.  Sounds like it's going to be bumpy coming in...

He was supposed to arrive at 1am last night but missed his flight.  Not sure if it would've been better driving down to pick him up after midnight or after noon today with all the wind and rain!

[wokeupthisam]

Down to 36.3F with a 50-50 mix that goes almost all flakes in bigger gusts.  Up to 2.45" since midnight.  Crazy sucker-punch of a storm, glad I held off planting the tomatoes outside...

[dendrite]

Some white rain, but seems the coldest has shifted south.

38.3° -RA

2.02” through the tipper 

[Typhoon Tip]

yeah...the more I look at this now that it's now-cast and 22/hind-sighting, this is a back door.  

I realize folks will argue because anytime someone makes a suggestion that interrupts one's formulating narrative on social media, there is recreational blow back if not outrage - some people are just triggered.   But clearly, that explanations atones best for the oddities of this thing's total deep layer circulation behavior/history.   

If one were to imagine a conversation with a ruddy old denizen of western Nova Scotia he would say that about 12 hours or so prior to our so-called backdoor phenomenon down here, they get just about exactly what we are getting now.   It's because the short wave impulse moves overhead up there, and sends the boundary down the coast.  Our unique topography then beckons it along it's journey and it doesn't stop until the Va Capes sometimes but ...that's secondary after the process has been triggered. In this case, we're just getting the impulse moving along an anomalously path from upper VT to SE MA as opposed to typically moving E QUE to NS.  

[DomNH]

Always amusing what a wind pit ASH is. Outages to the east, outages to the west. Outages in the city: 2. 

[Typhoon Tip]

5 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Some white rain, but seems the coldest has shifted south.

38.3° -RA

2.02” through the tipper 

yeah, this thing's cold physics were modeled to be very nucleated the whole time.  I mean, the hydrostatic thickness plumbs something like 15 dm spanning 6 hours and return almost fully.  552 -- 538 -- 552 

I'm surprised we did not get more thunder in the region but I did see a lot more lightning detection up around the ST L/ BTV region last evening so I guess -

[Modfan2]

Wind whipped misery mist and 48F in E CT, 0.06” so far

[rimetree]

Loud gusts early this morning kept me up. 42F and 1.8" so far with one last round moving in.

[CoastalWx]

Downright nasty. Car getting blown around 

[CoastalWx]

47kts Logan 

[bristolri_wx]

Trying to figure out why everyone else is talking about wind and I look outside and see leaves barely moving... I guess it will be here in the next hour or two.

[ScituateMA]

This storm is honestly pretty intense. Dont remember a st9rm like this in late may/early June. Afraid a tree is going to come down. Gusts are intense here in scituate. Easily 40+ and with the leaves on trees its a whole different ballgame