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This is a once in a life time event for the Northeast. Perfect setup to bring smoke down from Quebec. I have been watching the Empire State Building Cam. Earlier it was hard to see over the East River. Now I can not see even street level. This is with clear skies. If it had been overcast or thunderstorm activity I could see how those dark days of yesteryear could have happened.

View is so low you can not see ground level atop Empire State Building. If there had been cloud cover over thunderstorms it would be night black

Total ground stop LGA

Lower Manhattan earlier today and 1pm

2 More pictures. Lower Manhattan earlier this morning and 1pm

NYC at 12:45 100% clear skies over the Tri State area. This is the view from the Empire State Building looking east. You can't see across the East River so that is 1.4 miles away. A once in a generation (perhaps) smoky day

Normally there would be a west component to the wind but there has been a big upper low around Nova Scotia. That has been bringing the upper level winds south. Take a look at the satellite pictures. You can clearly see it. The low will eventually weaken which will improve air quality somewhat but there are many fires burning across Canada so don't expect dark blue skies anytime soon

These Canadian wildfires are really exploding today. Amazing how much smoke is coming down into the US. I wonder why this season started so early?

Flow is bring the Quebec fires south into the East Coast.

1pm 30F with moderate snow atop the Rockpile. Grabbed this picture a bit earlier. 47F with rain in my hood.

Cold morning on the Rockpile

Cold June 4th on the rockpile

About .60" yesterday. I wonder what the June record number of hours below 50F is for my location 48.7F as of solar noon

Heavy thunderstorm moved through. Not severe but pretty close. Lots of lightning and .43" rain

Tomorrow is June 1rst so it is time for a NNE warm season thread. Going into the summer May has been very dry. Probably the biggest weather event was the late freeze on the morning of May 18th. Just about everyone got down into the 20s and I think there might have been a few teens? The oak trees around here took a big hit. The small leaves had just emerged and now the oaks are mostly bare with brown dead curled up leaves. I'm sure they will bounce back quickly. Below is the regional precipitation deficit for the month and a chart of my temperatures and rainfall here in Central NH.

There is one batch of smoke moving NNW that is over SE New England that seems pretty thick. Then less smoke over the Atlantic. Over the past few hours another big fire looks to have started in NS.

50.4F on the other side of the cold front up here.. Behind the cold front the air is crystal clear. About .10 with the convection. Awaiting the afront rain coming in.

Aurora tonight? Skies should clear out, at least up here and there is no moon. Currently a solar storm is going on. Will it continue tonight? Spaceweather.com

I'm all for a good soak. GFS still shows jack way down in E Mass. So much divergence in modeling so close to go time. The freeze did a number on my Chestnut trees. New leaves will fill right in.

Toasty warm 29.7 up here on the hill.

37/14 8pm 14 Apple trees in full bloom. This may not be good.

Scott, I think the reason is 3 fold. The most important is the elevation difference. 2nd my skies are about 70% filled with Cu coming off the mountains. I can look south towards Brian and Cu becomes much more scattered the further south you go. He is getting more solar. The 3rd factor and the least important is I'm a bit further north into the colder air.

41/22F is even worse with a fair amount of sun

40.9/21F Partly cloudy and almost noon. Our apple trees are in full bloom. I don't have a good feeling for tonight. IMO Gray should push the button and go with a freeze warning for us in Central NH.

Hum, The 12Z GFS comes in colder again. 29F in my area of Plymouth NH for 2 hours. 925mb is colder too, down to -1F. Smoke is very thick right now, very dim sun so we will start with a lower launching pad this evening. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. All our apple trees are in full bloom. Argghhh