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Today sucked.

 

Today was damn near perfect, lol.  70s and sun until the PM storms here between your guys' marine taint and the torch in the Champlain to Hudson Valleys.

 

MWN missed their record high by a degree today, haha.  I bet it was a nice day at 6,000ft over eastern New England today.

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90.2 degrees for the high here. 4 degrees warmer than my parents house in Springfield where there were more clouds and the high was 86. 5 day highs since Wednesday here were 89.4, 90.3, 88.2, 94.7, 90.2. Torch!!

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That's one way for a hot stretch to avoid official heat wave status haha.
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it's just that a NE wind at PWM is land direction technically.  the slope of the coast bends back more due S as you near Cape Ann up there in NE MA/Hamptons, such that a NE wind is flat square face smack on shore and relentless at that.  May as well be in a f'n boat hundred mile E of Boston Light!

 

But just the same ... a S wind at PWM can be cruel to summer enthusiasts... sure

 

Good points all.  And I was thinking of the south wind, which has increasing effect as the coast gains a more southerly exposure.  At one point during the May 1978 heat wave, HUL was reporting 97 while EPO was in the fog at 49.

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I can't recall a backdoor having such a giant effect on temps like this one before

 

Oh geez, you haven't been around long then -

 

Perhaps by your personal experience, okay - but users of all scales have spun truthful yarns of lore many, ...many times on this forum over the years, regarding our plight as a veritable peninsula that sticks out into the ocean (cold one at that...), and is therefore prone to marine invasions ... some of which have been far more infuriating to summer enthusiasts than this. 

 

Granted, ...this one has a particularly potent bite to it due to the 24-hour whiplash, but there have definitely been others as, or more, extreme in short term face smack annoyance than this.

 

In 1998, on March 31 ... after three consecutive days of 88 to 91 F obscene early season heat, a BD front roared through that evening that corrected the temperature some 40 to 50 F in a matter of hours!   Places in SE NH that were 90 F were 39 on April Fools morning.  In 2003, circa May, ... 94 F at Logan went to 44 F in three hours. I remember, I worked over looking the B.U. campus on Comm Ave back in those days. From the window over the street ...  college gals huddles in shivering droves at the T-stop in their provocative clothes wondering what the f happened.   I remember seeing two distinct layers of cloud: one was dark based CU with tops leaning E under which shrouds of shattered scud raced WSW at some 30 kts across the city scape.   The next morning was a mist fest all the way to Trenton NJ.   

 

That's just two ... I can continue on and on.   This was a shallow invasion that crept into the region during the night - almost stealth like. There was no typical pulse of wind and slammin' screen doors ( :) ), and the sound of lawn chimes ... heralding in its arrival.  No real sinuous line on high resolution reflective radar imagery demarcating the front its self  ... blithe in its sucker punch ending of summer.  None off that...  credit the NAM - absolutely nailed that some 1.5 days (5 cycles) ahead and beat all the other guidance to the punch. Plus, west of FIT-PVD really wasn't part of that particular air mass ... so it was confined to east and northeast. 

 

Nah .. this was a climo event.  I bitter-bitter reminder that SNE really has its own unique blend of climates, that in its self is a climate zone that really could be defined as a kind of land/marine hybrid climate .. the definition of which includes heat wave patterns with bullet holes in them. Holes made often by scenarios where the models don't always correctly assess the rifleman.

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Oh geez, you haven't been around long then -

Perhaps by your personal experience, okay - but users of all scales have spun truthful yarns of lore many, ...many times on this forum over the years, regarding our plight as a veritable peninsula that sticks out into the ocean (cold one at that...), and is therefore prone to marine invasions ... some of which have been far more infuriating to summer enthusiasts than this.

Granted, ...this one has a particularly potent bite to it due to the 24-hour whiplash, but there have definitely been others as, or more, extreme in short term face smack annoyance than this.

In 1998, on March 31 ... after three consecutive days of 88 to 91 F obscene early season heat, a BD front roared through that evening that corrected the temperature some 40 to 50 F in a matter of hours! Places in SE NH that were 90 F were 39 on April Fools morning. In 2003, circa May, ... 94 F at Logan went to 44 F in three hours. I remember, I worked over looking the B.U. campus on Comm Ave back in those days. From the window over the street ... college gals huddles in shivering droves at the T-stop in their provocative clothes wondering what the f happened. I remember seeing two distinct layers of cloud: one was dark based CU with tops leaning E under which shrouds of shattered scud raced WSW at some 30 kts across the city scape. The next morning was a mist fest all the way to Trenton NJ.

That's just two ... I can continue on and on. This was a shallow invasion that crept into the region during the night - almost stealth like. There was no typical pulse of wind and slammin' screen doors ( :) ), and the sound of lawn chimes ... heralding in its arrival. No real sinuous line on high resolution reflective radar imagery demarcating the front its self ... blithe in its sucker punch ending of summer. None off that... credit the NAM - absolutely nailed that some 1.5 days (5 cycles) ahead and beat all the other guidance to the punch. Plus, west of FIT-PVD really wasn't part of that particular air mass ... so it was confined to east and northeast.

Nah .. this was a climo event. I bitter-bitter reminder that SNE really has its own unique blend of climates, that in its self is a climate zone that really could be defined as a kind of land/marine hybrid climate .. the definition of which includes heat wave patterns with bullet holes in them. Holes made often by scenarios where the models don't always correctly assess the rifleman.

yeah I'd need a lot of fingers to remember all the backdoors I've taken ;)
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I think your May 03 day was actually 4/17/02. 91 to 59 in 1hr...yikes.

https://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KBOS/2002/4/17/DailyHistory.html

 

you know ... you're right.  It was April that year - schit.   I just flat suck at remembering dates like that.   jesus. 

 

anyway, yet, it was a yiker - and that 59 didn't stop.  I know it didn't.  I was living in Waltham (Metro west) at the time and it slipped into the upper 40s that evening.  

 

although, that graph says 6 pm .. hm, the one I remember distinctly was during the early afternoon.  whatever - you seen one you suffered 'em all.

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Today has turned out to be the best day of the weekend wx wise...at least up here. Full sun, near 80, and a nice breeze.

 

yeah was out toolin' around runnin' errands and found my way out on 495 at 75 as the car therm read ... duh duh dunn, 75.  windows down, sun shinin'.   amazing.  

 

that heat on Saturday was too much.  it's fun to track that sort of thing for the pure Meteorology and all, but basking in it - heh, not so much.  this heat signal was clad.  it fired off just find but we just got screwed(saved) in the last 36 hours worth by typical bullschit you only find on a landmass trying to run a heat wave while sticking out into the cold NW Atlantic.  N.  VT and NH's lower els were in that 86 ... 87 range today for highs.  shows what this air mass would have supported sans that BD garbage yesterday down this way. 

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