May 2024 Observations and Discussion

Welcome to May, a day late, hopefully not a dollar short. Some foggy mornings the last couple days to start the month, but the temperatures couldn't be nicer. Let's hope the frequent rain of the last couple months takes a bit of a break as we head closer to the start of the summer season, which unofficially kicks off just over three weeks (3!) from now with Memorial Day Weekend!

64* and Mostly Cloudy, but the sunshine should break out in the next couple hours as we head into the 80s again.

Just for good order, I want to revisit this post from the April thread:



The convection that developed yesterday near the Dominican Republic/eastern Cuba and has been moving eastward was the signal mentioned above. Unfortunately, it appears that a fairly robust Saharan air layer combined with a relatively less than favorable MJO pulse and neutralizing upper-level divergence prevented it from spinning up. The signal was there, and the convection was there, but the expected result was not.

Good thing it’s only the pre-season, though, so it can at least be argued whether or not it should count against my overall record

It was a lovely day today. A lot of outside work got done before Sunday's rain. It was 68 today. Janet, I think your word will describe Sunday: a gully washer.

18z GFS shows rain most of the day tomorrow after about noon, is this incorrect?

dkodgis wrote:It was a lovely day today. A lot of outside work got done before Sunday's rain.  It was 68 today. Janet, I think your word will describe Sunday: a gully washer.

Forcast says light steady rain sun (not exactly a gully washer) and scattered showers sat night, as I stated 18z GFS shows rain most of the day tomorrow which would be unexpected and suck.

So it’s 50 at almost 6 pm. 2 inches of rain. Will rain here until about 8 pm. Not a gully washer but steady. I’ll stick to the horses. I can’t predict weather.

52* and Cloudy with a steady light rain here. Has been raining at varying intensity, mostly light, throughout the day. In a word: Nasty. Let's hope we are getting this chilly weather and weekend rain cycle out of our system before the Memorial Day weekend in two weeks.

Where is MUGS?? No mention of the solar storm coming??
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ushome/index.html

It's freaking freezing.in RI 56 and windy...but happy to be bringing our boy home! Hope everyone has their college kids home .

My friend in England just posted this is happening right now

I am so jealous..my top bucket list is to see northern lights..

Hope all you northerns got a good view...I tried every hour and it was too cloudy...

51 and Gloomy But HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!

Happy Mother’s Day

Clouds. No Northern Lights.

dkodgis wrote:Clouds. No Northern Lights.

did you get to see them on Friday. we had too many clouds

No. A complete cloud-out

Have never seen the Northern Lights other than pictures and video. Probably AI-generated. Not sure they exist.

39.3* this morning. Crazy for this time of year. I'm ready for it to be warm!

billg315 wrote:Have never seen the Northern Lights other than pictures and video. Probably AI-generated. Not sure they exist.

friends in England, Ireland Maine, Florida, catskill ny all saw them..just freaking our area

aiannone wrote:39.3* this morning. Crazy for this time of year. I'm ready for it to be warm!

44 for a low..my kitchen is a greenhouse..lol I put the plants to water and all of the plants coming back in at night..its nuts

docstox12 wrote:45 degrees, partly cloudy, calm winds.Looks like increasing clouds with showers and rain the next few days up here.Everything at the peak of greenness now.

Just saying the same thing..even my plants in my greenhouse kitchen! LOL did you see the northern lights by you or was it too cloudy as well?

docstox12 wrote:

weatherwatchermom wrote:

docstox12 wrote:45 degrees, partly cloudy, calm winds.Looks like increasing clouds with showers and rain the next few days up here.Everything at the peak of greenness now.

Just saying the same thing..even my plants in my greenhouse kitchen! LOL did you see the northern lights by you or was it too cloudy as well?

Nothing,Mom too cloudy.
My wife and a GF went to Iceland last November and that is a great place to see them.

71 degrees, showers starting, calm winds.

was thinking Iceland(but too many volcano's) so looking for second place..prob Tromso. So glad you had a great time! Number 1 on the bucket list..lol