Spring 2012 Thread (March-May) (warm, temperature, days, frost)

[ilovemycomputer90]

It was a nice dry day here. Only reached a high of 61 F. Tonight is forecasted to drop down to about 40 F and maybe 30s tomorrow night.

[Cambium]

Since GFS has shown something in this time frame for 9 of the last 12 runs, I guess we can start talking about it.

This might be our next chance at big rains after the April 23rd, May 10th events..

First we'll start with the 00z run from the 9th.
Shows a Tropical system down south that rides up just off the coast.


00z from the 10th.



Latest 00z.


Latest 00z 5 day rain total for long range May 21-25(Mon-Fri)

[susancruzs]

We've dried out after 6 inches of rain in a 2-3 week stretch! Gorgeous weather, unbelieable how the trees are leafed out, flowers, everything is awesome, a good 3-4 weeks ahead of schedule!

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Parts of England are no longer in drought anymore due to recent heavy rainfall.

BBC News - Parts of England no longer in drought after heavy rain

Severe flooding in Yorkshire yesterday due to torrential rain and showers. No warning from our beloved Met Office though, they probably think it's a normal occurrence here!

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A few pics of the North Yorkshire floods.. over 40mm / 1.5in of rain in 24 hours.

Flash Floods In Skipton, North Yorkshire

[Cambium]

Mt. Washington, New Hampshire. May 11, 2012. Blowing snow, freezing fog. Wind chill below 0. Wind gusts to 70mph.

There's people working up there. Someone from Accuweather is an intern there.

[Cambium]

Originally Posted by Cambium

Aside from the continued Long range Anamolies being below normal in the East, the Long Range GFS has me concerned about a bleed of Polar air mid May. I'm planting my veggies out this weekend so this is why its concerning.(frost/freeze)

For past 6 months I have disregarded the long range because models were flat out disgusting, but models have been pretty good past few weeks even with this warm front this week, so I am back to respecting it.

Lets see if my concern plays out. I hope not.

My concern is that a strong Low in Canada will move across the country and drag the polar air and bleed into the Eastern U.S

I posted this May 5th. I wonder if this is what happened today, just a couple days earlier. I knew something looked fishy. Frost advisories were up for parts of Northeast and temps got to low 30s. And the Low strengthen near Maine/Canada so even that was close.

[ilovemycomputer90]

Dropped down to 37 F this morning. May be the coldest morning until September or October. Currently 55 F, forecasted to go up to the low 70s.

[Weatherfan2]

Averages and extremes for May 2012 in Buxton Derbyshire England so far.

Avg Max: 11.2°C / 52.2°F
Avg Min: 3.6°C / 38.5°F
Max: 16.3°C / 61.3°F
Min: -1.8°C / 28.8°F
Rain: 48mm / 1.9"
Sun: 20.3 hrs / 2 hrs per day

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Originally Posted by Weatherfan2

Averages and extremes for May 2012 in Buxton Derbyshire England so far.

Avg Max: 11.2°C / 52.2°F
Avg Min: 3.6°C / 38.5°F
Max: 16.3°C / 61.3°F
Min: -1.8°C / 28.8°F
Rain: 48mm / 1.9"
Sun: 20.3 hrs / 2 hrs per day

For here -

Avg max 12.0c / 53.6f
Avg min 4.3c / 39.7f
Max 18.3c / 64.9f
Min -1.2c / 29.8f
Rain: 26.8mm / 1.05in
Sun: 44.6 hours, 4.4 hours a day

Very cool sums it up, I wonder if the the March max temperature of 22C will be higher than May? Absolutely nothing warm in the forecast..