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Variable. You indeed did have a good amount of cool days but you also seemed to have a good amount of warmer than average nights. The nights not being exceptionally cool is what's keeping the means up as well. It kind of just looks like a wetter than average month rather than cooler than average.
I suppose I'm more focused on the days since that's when I was awake. I only care about the nights when it's too hot and interestingly cold in the winter. A spring night in the 50s, while above average, is pretty forgettable. It's more noticeable having to wear a jacket and turn on the heat in late May.
I suppose I'm more focused on the days since that's when I was awake. I only care about the nights when it's too hot and interestingly cold in the winter. A spring night in the 50s, while above average, is pretty forgettable. It's more noticeable having to wear a jacket and turn on the heat in late May.
Yeah, I suppose in terms of feel I can see where you're coming from.
Btw it's 84 F here still with a 74 F dew point at 10 PM. How's that for a night that's too hot? Lol.
23 of your 31 nights are warmer than normal while 21 of your 31 days were cooler than normal. Higher precip and higher than normal cloud cover = lower diurnal ranges. Doesn't necessarily mean "cool".
As I said, the cooler days are more noticeable to me than the warmer nights when I'm asleep.
While there were fewer below average days, there were more that had the larger anomalies from average.
May 7th: 15 degrees below average
May 8th: 13 degrees below average
May 13th: 18 degrees below average
May 22nd: 10 degrees below average
May 25th: 13 degrees below average
May 29th: 14 degrees below average (and the high was at midnight...the majority of the day was in the 50s)
May 30th: 13 degrees below average
There were only 4 above average days that had an anomaly over 10 degrees.
If the minimums were near normal and most of the month or highs were below normal what would the departure be? BELOW normal. Well below in this month's case. Not normal. Those 3 days brought us to normal.
My point is all the cool days didn't drag the average down quite as much you'd expect because it was only the days not nights that were below average. Our average max was about 4°F below normal, min 1°F above normal.
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Also, Are you saying this is a typical occurrence where 3 or 4 days is the reason for a departure? I quickly looked for May only and didn't find any. May 2013 came close but I hesitate using that month because it looks normal even with only the 7 hot days. I don't think we see this scenario much, would be an interesting thing to look up though.
no, this is an extremely strange May. Good example of where average doesn't show the full picture. Feb 2016 is another really variable month where with lots of warmer than average days and one 27°F colder than average day. This May is skewed; three way warmer than average days, and lots of moderately but not extremely below average day.
The same can happen in winter with an extreme short lived cold blast in an otherwise warmer than avg month. It just seems on this forum the only months called out for it are the months that had a short very warm blast.
The same logic applies to warm months with a short cold snap. Not doubting that at all. Can you think of any recent examples?
February 2016 was the best example, a very warm month with a mammoth cold wave in the middle. Also March 2016 is a good example, it was one of the warmest months on record but had a magisterial cold blast at the start of it
February 2016? If I'm not mistaken, October 2015 also had a fairly intense cold snap mid-month in an otherwise warm month?
Yeah February 2016 was a wacky month. That cold blast was pretty intense. Then there were 9 days over 50 F...4 at or above 60 F.
Mid-October 2015 had a few cold nights...close to record breaking. But the days were nothing to write home about.
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