- Nor’easter Mid Week
- Unseasonably Cool / Wet thru Early June
- Memorial Day Weekend: Cool / Wet but not washout
- QuakeReMarks Update
- SolarReMarks: New Topic!
Good morning, atmospheric audience! Hope all is well. Wanted to jump on with my brief outlook for the last two weeks of May (including Memorial Day weekend), an update on my quake forecast, and a brief new addition: SolarReMarks. Regarding the last two weeks of May, per my last post on May 6th, May, Wet And Gray is still here to stay unfortunately folks. No need to water your lush lawns any time soon. By the way, as a sidenote, for anybody that’s new here or perhaps missed my last post, or didn’t read it in its entirety, every single post I’ve written since 2019 is saved on my site under Archives. If looking at my website on your phone, scroll all the way to the bottom and you’ll see each month and you can click on and go to each post or if you’re on a laptop or desktop, on the right hand column that’s where you’ll find the archives).
Ok, let’s chat on the week ahead. I’d enjoy today and Tuesday, both dry and seasonably cool in New England, and normal temps around the tri-state (upper 60s to low 70s). Come Wednesday night through at least Friday it’s downright dreadful and dreary forecast. Besides temps being well below normal (check out Thursday’s forecasted lows plus how low compared to normal below).
A low pressure system slides off the NJ coast and deepens into a moderate Nor’easter. The storm will strengthen and ride up the New England coast, stall and rotate into Fri/Sat before moving away from the coast. There may even be some snow, yes, you heard that right, way up in the greens, whites and the Loaf! You know I’ll be radar hunting!!
Ok, let’s narrow down Memorial Day Weekend for the Tri-State and New England. Here’s my initial thought which I’ll be updating midweek to firm up details for all your outdoor festivities, from weddings to bocce tournaments.
New England
Saturday: Mid 50s, misty afternoon, not a washout however. Coastal sections have higher chance for on and off showers.
Sunday: Looking like the best day of the 3 day weekend. Party sunny, low 60s
Memorial Day: Back to misty and dreary day with temps in low 60s (subject to change)
Tri-State Area
Saturday: Low to mid 60s, dreary misty day.
Sunday: Still unseasonably cool, mid to upper 60s BUT under partly sunny skies.
Memorial Day: Upper 60s and back to misty and dreary.
It’s a tricky forecast indeed but I’ll circle back later this week to refine the details.
QuakeReMarks Update
From my QuakeReMarks comments on my last post on 5/6 (see the screen shot above from that post which for those who missed it or just subscribed this week, includes the mega quake in Japan I’ve been discussing for 2 years), another forecast spot hit, north of New Zealand with 6.4! I’m still looking for big quake near Taiwan. New on my list in the Northeast, is Maine/Canada border for up to a 4.0, another big quake up to a 6.0 north of New Zealand near Fiji, a 5.0-6.0 in the Aleutian Islands off of Alaska, and 5-7 near Peru. Again, reread above my Japan thoughts.
SolarReMarks Update
Way too much to get into on this post but while there’s been a rapid disappearance of sunspots in the past few weeks, we have a massive coronal hole on earth facing part of the sun (black area seen above), one of the largest in decades. These holes kickoff high speed streams of solar wind that impact extreme weather here on earth, large earthquakes, auroras, and similar impact to our satellites, and electrical grid as do powerful CME from sunspots. Given our magnetic field is rapidly weakening (which is why we have been seeing low latitude auroras in Florida TX, Caribbean, etc. happening from rather uninspiring M and X class flares), paying attention to solar activity has taken on a new topic, SolarReMarks.
Alright, that’s it for now. Again, the devil is in details which those with big weekend plans are in need of. Pay attention to your inboxes for my latest updates. Go Knicks! But most importantly, remember weather never sleeps!