Allenson Posted May 19, 2011 Author Share Posted May 19, 2011 2.25" here since Saturday...so really, not that much rain. Actually getting some sunny breaks here this afternoon, warming things right up...and becoming downright steamy at times. Me too. CT Blizz would weep if he saw my weed patch. Don't mow the weed patch, yo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaineJayhawk Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 Wow, no sun in the forecast right through next Thursday now. This is becoming quite an epic cloudy and wet stretch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 Wow, no sun in the forecast right through next Thursday now. This is becoming quite an epic cloudy and wet stretch. I think there will be a few breaks later this afternoon although it's going to be cloudier out your way. I had about 20 seconds of sun yesterday afternoon.3.63" of rain for the event now after some heavy showers around midnight. 56.5F. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattlacroix4 Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 I think Sunday is our best day of seeing any Sun. This is incredible though, and pretty depressing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaineJayhawk Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 Snapped a quick pic of my yard this morning ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattlacroix4 Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 Snapped a quick pic of my yard this morning ... haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 Snapped a quick pic of my yard this morning ... You sure you were not at my house? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 What a lovely week... claustrophobic low cloud ceilings around in the 2,000-2,500 foot range all week. The mountains look incredibly small when they disappear into the fog three-quarters of the way down the mountain. Just below the fog at 2,000ft. Note 25 foot high pile of snow (still enough snow there to bury a 2-story house) on left side of photo at 1,600ft. Best spring ever! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PWMan Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 This is what it's come to... Tonight: A chance of drizzle. The drizzle could be heavy at times. Patchy dense fog. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 49. Light south wind. I guess I'll take my weather variety any way I can get it at this point. I've heard people complaining about the continued chance for rain into next week, but I'd actually welcome a regime change to occasional sunny breaks punctuated by showers and storms. This quagmire of constant fog/drizzle with a 5-degree daily temperature range is driving me slowly but inexorably insane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klw Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 We've got thunder and lightning here in St. J at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 We've been having waves of thunderstorms move through... some impressive thunder and lightning with these storms but no wind. Had one an hour or two ago and now another one is moving in. Very odd to have our storms come from klw's St J area... rare to see thunderstorms move east to west. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 Another gloomy day of drizzle and low overcast. This marks the 7th straight day of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borderwx Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 we've been out of the loop all week, sun has been around everyday except Monday, still sitting on 1.5" for the week, finished mowing and downed a beer watching these guys do their work watching the action down south, Belvidere Mt just visible in the gloom, heard rumbles, saw some flashes down in eden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 I see the calls for mostly cloudy extend to next Friday now. Are there records for longest periods of cloudy weather? Hummingbirds are back on the feeder. After two days of brutal labor, my extreme tropical garden has been planted. Now for the flower beds, which should take another 4-5 days to finish. I have some neon orange tulips I may never see fully open... they won't open without sun and will likely die before the sun returns. Similar story with my saucer magnolias. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 There's a few impressive quasi-stationary cells absolutely dumping on areas near the CT River. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 There's a few impressive quasi-stationary cells absolutely dumping on areas near the CT River. oh hey...a cell is just popping up to my NW...hopefully it backbuilds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 Its interesting to see how the ceiling elevation changes within my 45 mile view. To the west the ceilings are higher, almost 3000 feet. To my east the hills about 1500 are socked in. On a separate note we have only risen to 70F or above 3 times this year. Highest reading I have had is 74F. Pretty impressive being its May 20th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted May 21, 2011 Share Posted May 21, 2011 This day last year was the start of a nice long phenomenal stretch of 80's and 90's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allenson Posted May 21, 2011 Author Share Posted May 21, 2011 Yep, more of the same here too. Showers here, showers there, sometimes a break. I should've mowed the lawn on Thursday afternoon when it dried out some but alas, I didn't... As PF mentioned-strange thunderstorms yesterday moving east to west over the area...and nary a breath of wind with them. Didn't pick up much rain yesterday--just 0.10" but enough to keep things soggy. A little bit of rain this morning backing down from the NE, I reckon a sign that this puppy is at least slowing moving off to the east. On another note, I found a pile of snow in Hanover yesterday--couldn't believe my eyes at first, but sure enough. It's a plow pile in an area that gets zero in the way of direct sun and it's all covered in pine needles, sticks and other debris. If it's still there on Monday, I'll snap a pic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slknight Posted May 21, 2011 Share Posted May 21, 2011 On a separate note we have only risen to 70F or above 3 times this year. Highest reading I have had is 74F. Pretty impressive being its May 20th. PWM has not hit 70 yet this year. The last time it was 70 was October 8th, I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted May 21, 2011 Share Posted May 21, 2011 PWM has not hit 70 yet this year. The last time it was 70 was October 8th, I believe. They reached either 67 or 68 on March 17, and I'm not sure they've topped that reading since. My mildest is exactly 70 on 4/29, and I've reached 69 this month, but have remained below 60 from last Sat onward - maybe today for 60+? No thunder, nor any +RA, yesterday, but showers 7A-2P dumped 0.50", considerably more than I'd expected - more than GYX had expected too, I think. The 7-day rain is now up to 3.27" as of 7 AM this morning. Lawn is long but too wet to mow; garden too wet to plant, though its sogginess helped in extracting dandelions. Apple blossoms still in bud, awaiting sun. Last year this date they had opened, frozen, and were toasty black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted May 21, 2011 Share Posted May 21, 2011 This day last year was the start of a nice long phenomenal stretch of 80's and 90's. Check what's coming in from N NH/ME right now on radar. Oye.We need some strong westerlies in here to wipe out this marine layer and dry it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted May 21, 2011 Share Posted May 21, 2011 Check what's coming in from N NH/ME right now on radar. Oye. We need some strong westerlies in here to wipe out this marine layer and dry it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaineJayhawk Posted May 21, 2011 Share Posted May 21, 2011 Peeks of sun and patches of blue sky greeting us in York County this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted May 21, 2011 Share Posted May 21, 2011 Temp has jumped to 69.1F with variable sunshine. Looks like it's sparking some convection north of the lake as the boundary drops southward. SBCAPE is currently > 500 J/kg on SPC meso and WBZs are just above H75 for C NH. It should mostly be heavy rain, but maybe a few spots get some small hail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted May 21, 2011 Share Posted May 21, 2011 "Scorching" up to 71.6F now. We've been getting a spike in solar radiation (just had a 1440 w/m^2 which is above the solar constant) thanks to some diffuse radiation that has been scattered off of the TCu/Cb just to the north. The end result is a nice temp spike as the convection approaches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted May 21, 2011 Share Posted May 21, 2011 12:40pm light rain 58.5F Thunderstorm passed through during the hour. About 6 claps of thunder and .45" of rain with a bit of gusty winds. High was 64F before rain started. Event total 4.30"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snow Bow Posted May 21, 2011 Share Posted May 21, 2011 "Scorching" up to 71.6F now. We've been getting a spike in solar radiation (just had a 1440 w/m^2 which is above the solar constant) thanks to some diffuse radiation that has been scattered off of the TCu/Cb just to the north. The end result is a nice temp spike as the convection approaches. So the suns radiation bounces off the surrounding clouds and can actually put out more energy in a given location than they would have on a cloudless day? That pretty neat and something i had never thought about but makes sense. Your into all the little nuances weather has to offer. I remember one day the temp dropped to below freezing at your location allowing some freezing drizzle to occur this past winter and you had a really informative reason why it had happened, I dont think it was evaporational cooling it was some other form I again had never heard of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j24vt Posted May 21, 2011 Share Posted May 21, 2011 Lots of lightning strikes yesterday around 4pm. The dentist office up the street was hit and it started a large fire. Our house and the neighbor's house got hit. Popped a lot of circuit breakers an fried pretty much anything with an antenna. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mahk_webstah Posted May 21, 2011 Share Posted May 21, 2011 enjoyed every bit of that 2-3 hours of sunshine earlier. moved the lawn. what a horrible forecast for the next week. hoping we can manage a few hours of sun here and there. can't even begin to think about planting tomatoes yet. Brian what is your soil temp? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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