powderfreak

Turned into a great afternoon. Got up to 67F and sunny after 40s and rain this morning.

Oh I wasn’t saying put your plants in the ground. But you cannot say that currently you’d expect 5/26 to be the mean last freeze in whatever climate we’ve got going. Sure, could pop a 30F on June 1st… but you know what I was getting at. Go look at those summer minimum temps from 1955-1975 and tell me that’s not different from what we see on average lately. It’d be entertaining to see mid-30s in CT valleys in July, always a chance.

34F in July of 1956 and 34F in August of 1956. 9 of the first 12 years of that Coventry station back in the the 1950s and 1960s saw July min temps in the 30s. Good luck with that today. Looking at that reminds me of when Dendrite posts the old CON data and it just looks so far fetched to what we see these summers at night.

The data looks fine for the time frame... but given how we've seen last frost/freezes move over the past three decades, that could be like two weeks earlier now. It looks like the coldest was when the station started in the late 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s if you toggle to the late freeze dates. Skews almost to June 1 back then and then has been moving up until the last May/June data in 1990. https://wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?ct1689

Oh the Coventry, CT data ended in 1990... ok that makes sense of 5/26 back then. No way that still holds true 30+ years later.

What's the climo period for that one? No way the past 30 years last 32F average is 5/26 there?

Radiators mount up. 30F here and 42F up the road at base of ski area.

I picture like the boiler room in the Titanic… shoveling coal into the fire.

48/25 is apparently dry enough to get frozen down here… graupel and mangled chunky flakes for a 3 minute shower. Dog came in with frozen pellets on her back.

40s all day and powered through with shorts on. About half a dozen layers on the upper body though, ha. Channeling my inner DIT.

Last of the cold season thread. May meets winter. That’s some marginal surface cold.

Spitting light snow with a half inch or so at the picnic tables.

Electric Blue?

Nice day but cool. 52F in the valley, 48F at the base of ski area and mid-30s up high. Sun felt good despite those temps.

0.33" here.