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I lost a tremendous amount of large mature trees in my area starting with the Queens tornado in September 2010. My area is still pretty green but before 2010 you had to search for sunshine walking on the sidewalk. It's very saddening.

Just wait wait till some of these people begin to age...their homes will be like The Towering Inferno...lol

That’s a pretty small impact except maybe locally in some suburbs that have strict planting and removal restrictions. The neighborhood I grew up in, in south Wantagh was completely tree covered in the 80s/90s. Between March 2010, Irene and Sandy we lost a tremendous amount of trees in a short time. After Sandy especially there was a panick of removals. Now there a very few trees in the entire neighborhood. Even in the wantagh woods which was known for its mature oaks and beech’s there are far, far fewer trees. Developers buy old houses on big lots, cut all the trees and build 2 McMansions. Again this is local, where I live now in Lynbrook there are still plenty of mature trees.

68 was my high. The sun came or this afternoon and got up there.

Nice. How much do you have for the month now? Sitting at 2.80" here so far.

Meh heat has been off for days

The heat came on???....you need to lower the setting from the Phoenix setting...

Thanks for posting this. Here are my thoughts fwiw: 1. The Euro has a significant warm bias from spring predictions. The April run has Nino 3.4 max at only +0.42 (in JAS) before starting to drop. Considering its warm bias, that in itself is signaling a trimonth peak near 0. 2. However, the CFS, which has tended to have a cool bias the last 2 years, is one of the warmest with a peak of +0.62 in OND and still rising slowly. That tells me to not completely dismiss the chance for a weak El Niño. 3. MetFrance over the last 2 years has averaged a modest warm bias though it has missed somewhat too cold in some months. It’s April has a peak of +0.19 in ASO and still very slowly rising. If anything, that suggests a trimonth peak that could be ~~0. 4. BoA (Aus-Access) has it up to +0.57 in JAS and still very slowly rising. Due to a strong warm bias in 2023, a moderate warm bias in 2024, and this being the warmest for ASO of any major dynamic model, I feel this is signaling a low end warm neutral. 5. I consider the combo of the UKMET and the JMA as having the lowest bias of any kind. The UK has -0.31 in JAS (coldest of major dynamic models) and still falling significantly. The JMA has -0.14 in ASO and still falling slowly. These two suggest cold neutral as being most likely in autumn. 6. So, based on the above, I currently favor anywhere from ~0.0 to cold neutral for autumn to winter. 7. None of this takes into account RONI, which I currently favor to be at least 0.3 cooler than ONI. So, RONI could drift into weak La Niña territory based on UK/JMA.

It has indeed. This dry tendency has persisted during Nina and Nino patterns.

Let’s go Caps!

I almost did the same tbh.

Oh yeah... and https://phys.org/news/2025-04-himalayan-year-threatening-billion-people.html

FYP

Watching those storms out to the West. Will see if they hold over the mountains.

Those are wave clouds/undulatus ... they are typical along 40 N in the spring and early summer due to warm air riding over an antecedent cooler/denser air mass. It's going to 75 tomorrow in a warm sector diffusing into a dying cold frontal wash ... then WNW d-slope compression adds... hell, it may even be a warm bust 80.

I hopes so ... need the rain. Sunday looks really nice. It has to rain sometimes - tough shit, it's on the Saturday. But y'all just had an 11 on scale of 1-10 so deal.

Oh, gee, yet another storm that’s falling apart.

It's the fact that everyone keeps planting male trees and plants.

Yep, only reached 64 here today.

Glad they found it and antibiotics should knock it out. .

I can see it that. Warm, humid and dry. No reason to change the theme. .

Little back door action keeps east of river in low 60s while west basking in low 70s. .

But at least the Delmarva and Gulf Coast cashed in!

less than 50% of average-even worse for northern locales