May 2022 Thread

[kdxken]

1 hour ago, bristolri_wx said:

I totally understand people liking warm, even hot weather. But why-the-f$!? does anyone like high dew points? You people enjoy ball dripping sweat all day? I honestly don’t get it. Dry heat beats swamp ass dew points by a mile…

Down to 67 here with the breeze. Quite pleasant! Only got to about 80 here but humid. Glad to be near nature’s air conditioning… was in Brooklyn CT for a party today for a few hours and it was 90!

I think there's two.

 

[dendrite]

95F at AQW today...wow.

[TauntonBlizzard2013]

Paper tiger heat down this way today. It was warm… but nothing earth shattering.

[SnoSki14]

6 minutes ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

Paper tiger heat down this way today. It was warm… but nothing earth shattering.

But it's also May so there's some merit 

[NECT]

Earliest ac install ever.

[HIPPYVALLEY]

4 minutes ago, NECT said:

Earliest ac install ever.

Same. 

[dendrite]

You can see how the Euro (and other models) lost the high end heat for much of the area beginning 00z last night. Too much Atlantic taint.

[OceanStWx]

2 minutes ago, dendrite said:

You can see how the Euro (and other models) lost the high end heat for much of the area beginning 00z last night. Too much Atlantic taint.

Never trust a warm front.

[dendrite]

1 minute ago, OceanStWx said:

Never trust a warm front.

Looks like still some weak E flow for much of ME/NH outside of the SW NH zones until late morning tomorrow.

[Saguaro]

7 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Looks like still some weak E flow for much of ME/NH outside of the SW NH zones until late morning tomorrow.

It was drawn on the surface analysis this afternoon, along with being mentioned briefly in some SPC discussions. It not only kept the heat out but kept the svr away. As others have mentioned, it backed in yesterday and for all intents and purposes was a backdoor.

 

17 minutes ago, dendrite said:

You can see how the Euro (and other models) lost the high end heat for much of the area beginning 00z last night. Too much Atlantic taint.

Thursday evening the forecasts were for low to mid 90s today in Bridgton/Fryeburg area, but IZG was only able to muster 84.

[moneypitmike]

Managed 66--better than I was expecting.  Either way, short-lived mild-up en route.

[Damage In Tolland]

Low was 70.2

Special summer 

[Torch Tiger]

Happy Sunday!!

[kdxken]

1 hour ago, moneypitmike said:

Managed 66--better than I was expecting.  Either way, short-lived mild-up en route.

Yeah not too bad! Back to chamber of commerce in no time.

[dendrite]

Down to 60° here this morning. Had to turn the window fan down in the middle of the night. The hot stretch here is going to end up being just an afternoon. 

[HoarfrostHubb]

64F low.   Should get into the low 90s

[BrianW]

This is how you dew it. 

My rescue Chihuahua/Dachshund from Mississippi was in his glory yesterday.  Specifically picks the hottest black part of the patio to embrace his dews. 

 

[tamarack]

1st rumbles of the year last evening between 9 and 10.  Saw one nice C-C bolt running horizontally, counted to 61 before the noise arrived.  That's about as close (10-12 miles) as the storm got before either dying or sliding to our south.  Typical.   Cellphone popped up with a tor warning ("take cover immediately!") about 7:30, but no location given.  There'd been a SVR warning earlier for a storm some 20 miles NW from Moosehead.

[Damage In Tolland]

Will we bang this afternoon?

[RUNNAWAYICEBERG]

1 hour ago, kdxken said:

Yeah not too bad! Back to chamber of commerce in no time.

Yea. Majority low dew days upcoming, it’s a special spring stretch. 

[DavisStraight]

1 hour ago, BrianW said:

This is how you dew it. 

My rescue Chihuahua/Dachshund from Mississippi was in his glory yesterday.  Specifically picks the hottest black part of the patio to embrace his dews. 

 

My Arkansas rescue does the same thing, she lays right in full sun on these hot days. She is half Rhodesian Ridgeback too so it could be that too.

[Typhoon Tip]

9 hours ago, OceanStWx said:

Never trust a warm front.

E of the Hudson ...? 

- haven't for 25 years

[WxWatcher007]

I’m already sitting at 83°

[Typhoon Tip]

Looking and comparing E regional obs, it appears wherever decoupled overnight - and those close to and E of that boundary Saguaro posted above were more proficient in the regard - end up back in a N drift. Those closer to the coast, variable between NE-SE.  W of that boundary, the weakly decoupled area was more variable to dead calm.

Yet, ....WPC analyzed the synoptic weird boundary that seems to fester with physics disconnected from God ( ), repositioned farther NE up into southern Maine.   Sarcasm aside, that boundary does not really reflect these meso scale circumstances that are still plaguing the 'warm stretch.'

What I am also noticing this morning, as we heat up... as the temperature rises to between 78 and 80 ( now ), sites are showing a flip to WSW ...albeit very light.  ORH at 1000 feet is WSW the whole way.   One thing this whole ordeal apparently lacked was a strong enough llv gradient to drive the wind field/fronts along. This is a stagnated scenario, or close to it.  The air quality around the region as the yellowed sun rises through it is pretty 'ozoney' for only having DPs in the mid 60s ...and I think that makes sense given the lack of sufficient mixing associated with that former reasoning. 

As we continue to warm, the feeble deeper layer environmental wind momentum may just be enough to mix out that stranded air mass over eastern zones ... I dunno mid day.   Nashua was 73 with an E flag wobble zephyr;  Bedford popped to 79 and went WSW.

[Ginx snewx]

2 hours ago, BrianW said:

This is how you dew it. 

My rescue Chihuahua/Dachshund from Mississippi was in his glory yesterday.  Specifically picks the hottest black part of the patio to embrace his dews. 

 

Thank you for rescuing. Chihuahuas love the heat. Our two stay in the sun all the time.

[Ginx snewx]

8 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

I’m already sitting at 83°

Maybe get up and move around?

[Ginx snewx]

1 hour ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Will we bang this afternoon?

Is she home?

[powderfreak]

We had some good nocturnal thunderstorms last night.  Love waking up to Thunder and sound of pouring rain on the more summer-like nights.

[CoastalWx]

4 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

We had some good nocturnal thunderstorms last night.  Love waking up to Thunder and sound of pouring rain on the more summer-like nights.

Complete dust bowl here haha. 

[Typhoon Tip]

Over arcing synoptic ridging is suppressing anything from happening over CNE/SNE, so far through this period, yet is insufficient in kinematically driving an offshore wind.  Which allows an oceanic creep to move into into eastern regions like at scene out of that B- '80 horror called "The Fog"

Great.  So we desiccate in cool misery.  

Actually, not me here in Ayer - I'm commiserating for the E and SE folk, where clearly ... modeling was not sophisticated enough to see these oddities nuance them out of this summer burst before it really became clear in very short term, that would be the case.  They should get some this afternoon - me thinks.

I've been literally right on that interface between the two worlds.  Drive up to Westford's Wholefoods ( lest I rely upon the local 'rural' Americana 'canned ravioli' chains ..), which is immediately astride I-495 there ...and you can sometimes smell the mash-up between eastern mass industrial effusion and marine taint, and it's routinely 7 to 10 F cooler.  That location is only about 7 mi E of my longitude.   Yesterday was about 87, though, while we were 91.