April Pattern/obs thread.

[Ginx snewx]

The air is so clean though. Love Arctic  source air.  You know that chill is generated from massive snow fields. The sky is crystal clear. Maybe we can COC our way through summer with minimum high dew days. Just lots of 85/55 with full bright sun with deep blues.

[HIPPYVALLEY]

21 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Wow totally wrong. 

Wow, that’s surprising. I’d like love to see a chart for inland because the wind has been constant the last three weeks.

[Typhoon Tip]

9 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Wow, that’s surprising. I’d like love to see a chart for inland because the wind has been constant the last three weeks.

Just musing: Something strange is going on with the numbers, something I've noticed for a while actually.   It feels chilly when above normal now -

Some of that, I suspect is because as noted over the recent 10 ... 20 years of global climate monitoring, and is showing likewise in local numbers, much of the above normal results have been because of the nighttime contribution, which have been the warmer of the night vs days.   If it's 50  for a low, and the average low is 44 ( say..), but the next day is 70 when the average high is 69, that's almost unknowable to the average civilian just how warm it has been.     

But when it is perceived chillier, wind of any amount will tend to gnaw at one's nerves.  Irony is that wind at 50 or 44 at night is going to suck either way.  It doesn't have to even be windier than normal.  Moving cold air is unpleasant.

[RUNNAWAYICEBERG]

41 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

The air is so clean though. Love Arctic  source air.  You know that chill is generated from massive snow fields. The sky is crystal clear. Maybe we can COC our way through summer with minimum high dew days. Just lots of 85/55 with full bright sun with deep blues.

Let’s do it.

[HIPPYVALLEY]

3 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Just musing: Something strange is going on with the numbers, something I've noticed for a while actually.   It feels chilly when above normal now -

Some of that, I suspect is because as noted over the recent 10 ... 20 years of global climate monitoring, and is showing likewise in local numbers, much of the above normal results have been because of the nighttime contribution, which have been the warmer of the night vs days.   If it's 50  for a low, and the average low is 44 ( say..), but the next day is 70 when the average high is 69, that's almost unknowable to the average civilian just how warm it has been.     

But when it is perceived chillier, wind of any amount will tend to gnaw at one's nerves.  Irony is that wind at 50 or 44 at night is going to suck either way.  It doesn't have to even be windier than normal.  Moving cold air is unpleasant.

I have several friends who are weather enthusiasts who all feel like it’s been a windier regime the past decade, myself included.  However, it’s just based on personal experience at various locations and I certainly don’t have any data to back it up.

If we are indeed in a cycle of climate change then windier certainly makes sense as one of the atmospheric symptoms.

[RUNNAWAYICEBERG]

53 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Wow totally wrong. 

The mid 1950s was a good stretch for NewEng weather weenies, wasn’t it?

[klw]

24 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Just musing: Something strange is going on with the numbers, something I've noticed for a while actually.   It feels chilly when above normal now -

Some of that, I suspect is because as noted over the recent 10 ... 20 years of global climate monitoring, and is showing likewise in local numbers, much of the above normal results have been because of the nighttime contribution, which have been the warmer of the night vs days.   If it's 50  for a low, and the average low is 44 ( say..), but the next day is 70 when the average high is 69, that's almost unknowable to the average civilian just how warm it has been.     

But when it is perceived chillier, wind of any amount will tend to gnaw at one's nerves.  Irony is that wind at 50 or 44 at night is going to suck either way.  It doesn't have to even be windier than normal.  Moving cold air is unpleasant.

Or you are just getting old

[HoarfrostHubb]

1 hour ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Wow, that’s surprising. I’d like love to see a chart for inland because the wind has been constant the last three weeks.

Stein posted a similar chart (only the last 10 years or so) yesterday   

[CoastalWx]

It’s windy, but we’ve had much stronger winds in April. Hell two years ago I had shingles coming off in a cutter. 
As some of said, it’s just been persistent and aggravating. 

[weatherwiz]

Perhaps the most frustrating thing this time of year is looking at forecast CAPE values on the GFS and watching bigger CAPE values trying to sneak into the Northeast and then BOOM...gone, bye-bye

[dendrite]

Today may be worse than yesterday cold wise.

[PowderBeard]

2 hours ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Wow, that’s surprising. I’d like love to see a chart for inland because the wind has been constant the last three weeks.

Seriously, the wind has been so bad lucky to get out on the Quabbin 2 days a week. Constant 2-3 footers. Definitely the worst out there since I moved up here. 

[Damage In Tolland]

6 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Today may be worse than yesterday cold wise.

Already almost at yesterday’s high with 6 hours of heating left.

[NorEastermass128]

46F with solar destruction. Breezy with a wind chill in the upper 30’s. Come on. 

[dendrite]

4 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Already almost at yesterday’s high with 6 hours of heating left.

Congrats. Not here. Getting taint backing in from Maine. 

[kdxken]

Pretty sweet day just reached 50. Looks unlikely we will reach the 60s and '70s like some predicted.

[CoastalWx]

13 minutes ago, kdxken said:

Pretty sweet day just reached 50. Looks unlikely we will reach the 60s and '70s like some predicted.

You hate to see it.

[SouthCoastMA]

49° and bright sun. yikes

airmass matters

[Angus]

Pleasant day on top of Mt. Washington - 13 degrees. Snowing at Sugarloaf. 21 degrees on summit of saddleback. 

[Typhoon Tip]

2 hours ago, klw said:

Or you are just getting old

Heh... could be that too - but nah... Just what I gather from wading through the weeds of American weather posting

[Damage In Tolland]

A beaut out there today. Hopefully folks are out 

[Typhoon Tip]

2 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

A beaut out there today. Hopefully folks are out 

It's a little bit on the chilly side and sub- top 10 spring for my taste but -

heh...j/k

[Damage In Tolland]

8 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

It's a little bit on the chilly side and sub- top 10 spring for my taste but -

heh...j/k

Warm and nice out in the sun. Tanning index an 8. Cloudless 

[CoastalWx]

1 minute ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Warm and nice out in the sun. Tanning index an 8. Cloudless 

Today blows slightly less. Still blows. 

[Damage In Tolland]

1 minute ago, CoastalWx said:

Today blows slightly less. Still blows. 

Keep complaining about sunny dry wx in the spring 

[CoastalWx]

4 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Keep complaining about sunny dry wx in the spring 

BBBBBBLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[CoastalWx]

Will need some more rain though. Need to keep the grass greening and growing.  has been around, but the dry days are probably keeping me from burning my house down.

[RUNNAWAYICEBERG]

31 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Will need some more rain though. Need to keep the grass greening and growing.  has been around, but the dry days are probably keeping me from burning my house down.

Plenty of cutoffs incoming. Some will get suppressed. Top25 spring nowhere in sight thru mid May. 

[RUNNAWAYICEBERG]

56 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

A beaut out there today. Hopefully folks are out 

It certainly has not been the torch spring you wished for. When it hasn’t been 45 cloudy and windy, it’s been all the coc you can handle. 

[Ginx snewx]

1 hour ago, Damage In Tolland said:

A beaut out there today. Hopefully folks are out 

Windy as fuk