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[kpk33x]

May 27, 2016. 3rd day of 80s. Tomorrow pushing for 90.

We are finally, but almost, all leafed out now. I say almost because the American Sycamore is still not.

Looks weird now this late. Usually by mid May we all leafed out this year took past that. Oaks just matured last week.

It happened all of a sudden the 2nd week of May. Our oaks are throwing off the tassels just now.

I wasn't here in spring 2014 but that may have been even later. First weekend of June 2014 when I was here there were pollen drifts in the parking lots. In PA 2014 the leaf-up was about a week earlier than 2013.

[ClicheVortex2014]

Aside from the anomalously cool temps (first time a month is going to end cooler than average since January (-0.2 degrees at CVG)), it's gonna end quite dry for a rather big part of the Midwest and Deep South.





Keep in mind the scales in the following images are different

[NorEaster07]

Someone remind me. What does 70s feel like??

Only 6 days we were in the 70s this month. I believe 3 of those days had rain and/or clouds. So really only a couple of days of 70s and sun?!!

http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/sites/plo...network=CT_ASOS

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This is more like it. Who hit the Torch Switch??

One of the coldest Starts on record to one of the Warmest ends on record. Fun.

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[NorEaster07]

May 2016 is over & it was memorable for Southern New England.

It started as one of the coldest & ended as one of the warmest.

Not to forget the record number of overcast/cloudy days for parts of the area

Bridgeport went from an average temp of 50.3 the first week of May which was 6th coldest, to 73.1° last week of May which was 2nd warmest. Crazy!

What about Worcester. Only 1 yr was colder the first 7 days of May (In 124yrs of records) and only 4 yrs were warmer the last week of May.

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[NorEaster07]

Temp departures each week for May 2016 (minus 22nd, 23rd, 24th). Wish they would stick to 1 scale.

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[ClicheVortex2014]

Temp departures each week for May 2016 (minus 22nd, 23rd, 24th). Wish they would stick to 1 scale.

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Sweet compilation. I like how many different kinds of patterns we saw that month. First week was probably the most El Nino-like, and the last week was probably the most La Nina-like. The first week of June looks El Nino-like again with the big Aleutian trough/+PNA, then if Euro's right, we'll flip to a La Nina-like pattern similar to what we saw in late May.

ENSO transition living up to its expectations, I guess.

[Undertakerson]

Figured this is as good a place as any for this retrospective piece on the April-May wet conditions in the S MidAtl

http://potomac.org/blog/2016/6/29/rainy-sp...-chesapeake-bay