Spring 2016 thread (Northern Hemisphere) (warm, temp, Chicago, night)
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As we leave El Nino fast and head towards La Nina, I saw this graph this morning and said, wow, let me check how April and May 1998 was just to compare and see if there are any similarities..
Without getting too detailed...
April 1998 was above normal but it was the nights that did it. Only hit 70s twice that month. Mostly 50s and 60s which indicates clouds. Rainfall above normal.
May 1998 started off very wet and cool. 11 of 12 days had precip. It was overcast many days with temps struggling past 50s and low 60s, nighttime staying warm in the 50s
It doesn't look like this May here will be similar to May 1998.
May 1998 was the driest on record, with 0.00 inches of rain recorded. It was also the 7th warmest on record.
I think May 2016 will be wetter than average here, and maybe close to normal temperature-wise.
That's the thing about the east coast; to get a lot of thunderstorms you need to live somewhere with mild to warm winters. Not so in the Midwest. If the thunderstorm days per year map from NOAA is accurate, Kentucky gets just as many thunderstorms as North Carolina, while there looks to be a sharp drop-off in the northeast. From what I can tell my problem is a very local one, no need to actually move south.
That's the thing about the east coast; to get a lot of thunderstorms you need to live somewhere with mild to warm winters. Not so in the Midwest. If the thunderstorm days per year map from NOAA is accurate, Kentucky gets just as many thunderstorms as North Carolina, while there looks to be a sharp drop-off in the northeast. From what I can tell my problem is a very local one, no need to actually move south.
I wonder, how come places in the mid west overall get more thunderstorms than here. Im thinking the reason behind Kentucky and tennesse and ohio getting more thunderstorms than here is because they get more spring severe storms that are cause by cold fronts clashing with the warm fronts in the area, versus here cool fronts not reaching here as often in the spring? Would like to see a summer thunderstorm comparison, I would imagine we do better in that department. In Raleigh we get more summer rainfall than a lot of these places that get more thunderstorms than us. .
I wonder, how come places in the mid west overall get more thunderstorms than here. Im thinking the reason behind Kentucky and tennesse and ohio getting more thunderstorms than here is because they get more spring severe storms that are cause by cold fronts clashing with the warm fronts in the area, versus here cool fronts not reaching here as often in the spring? Would like to see a summer thunderstorm comparison, I would imagine we do better in that department. In Raleigh we get more summer rainfall than a lot of these places that get more thunderstorms than us. .
A summer map would favor the south for sure. Over here we are directly north of the Gulf and directly south of the Arctic, so it's easier to get clashes in spring vs the northeast where Gulf moisture has to surge farther.
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or wait till the pattern becomes different and more favorable for you! Average high here crosses 80 in a week !!!
It was also the 7th warmest on record.
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