How is your weather?

[kentuck]

Cold winds have been coming over the Rockies and bringing a lot of hail and rain.

I have noticed over the years that when cold wind comes over Pikes Peak, the bad weather affects a huge part of the country. With its counter-clockwise movement, it usually hits the panhandle of Texas and Oklahoma with strong winds or tornadoes.

If it is unusually strong and cold, it can affect Missouri, southern Illinois, and points even further east.

We had another strong hail storm early this morning but it is not real cold.

Weather report by kentuck

[Scuba]

1. It's humid, 54 degrees F, heading for 70. Another beautiful day in NE Wisconsin.

[olddots]

2. its like March in May

this part of L. A. ....it is trying to rain but can't.

[steve2470]

3. sunny 75F low humidity = CoC type day nt

[MissB]

4. Supposed to be 81 today.

Cloudy and upper 70s tomorrow, followed by a few days of warmish rain. Warmer than usual, but not outrageously hot. I've planted my tomatoes since we are getting enough 50 degree nights for them to survive.

No hail. No drought here either (certainly around the state, but not in Portland).

[etherealtruth]

5. Michigan: 80ish and humid

[malthaussen]

6. 62F 92% humidity.

Figure the temp to spiral up about 15-20 degrees by noon. So cool and sticky now, hot and sticky later. Not unusual for Philly.

-- Mal

[HereSince1628]

7. Overcast, humid, cool as the wind is coming off Lake Michigan...

temps along the shore will struggle to reach 60, while 30 miles inland it'll be low 70s.

Tomorrow will be similar with a greater chance of rain...iow another perfect day for the administration to opt for commencement on the lawn...

But you've sent me into reminiscing about the May 10, 1990 ~10ish inch snowstorm.

[Evergreen Emerald]

8. Seattle--beautiful

sunny, warm (near 75 today). Lots of yard work in store for today...and hiking tomorrow with the kids.

[AgingAmerican]

25. Spring hit a tad early this year though

February instead of April.

Usually it's 55 degrees and drizzling rain for weeks on end this time of year. We don't get drizzle rain over the winter anymore like we used to.

[dixiegrrrrl]

39. We don't get drizzle rain over the winter anymore like we used to.

Really? When did that change?
And what are winters like now?

I always found Feb. up there so damn depressing, gloomy as hell, damp and chilly. One of the reasons I left.

Now WE are getting long rainy late winter/early spring weather here in SW Ala.! It used to be sunny and fairly dry.

[AgingAmerican]

47. When I first moved to Seattle in the late 70s, the weather was predictible

Between late September and May, it rained almost constantly, but sometimes barely more than mist coming down. you could walk around in the rain and barely get wet. Constant drizzle. That began to change about 8 or 9 years ago. Since then, when it rains in the winter it rains harder and less often. It has definitely changed a lot since I moved here, and especially in the last few years.

Now it's a lot warmer and more humid too boot.

[dixiegrrrrl]

49. I remember never ever having an umbrella.

Since it drizzled a lot, we got by with hats, and even light jackets.
When it really rained hard everyone stayed inside as much as possible, but it was still possible to wander around outside a lot during winter, which rarely got cold, and snow storms were 3-4 year events.
Plus people knew how to drive in the snow.

I left Puget Sound in the mid 80's. All that cloud cover was getting to be a bit much.

Thanks for the info. about the weather change...

[AgingAmerican]

51. Yep

You remember it exactly as I do. No need for an umbrella if you had a beanie or hat. Funny thing about Seattle, you still rarely see umbrellas!

[Evergreen Emerald]

45. It is true

I fear we will not avoid the drought here in WA.

[AgingAmerican]

48. Seattle and western Washington will be fine

...eastern Washington, not wo much. I drove over the mountains in mid April and there was no snow except on the highest crags. No snowpack. Normally it doesn't look like that until late June/early July. Keechelus Lake was full to the brim, so much that the pine trees on the island were partially submerged and it was only 7 or 10 feet below the interstate. Obviously they are saving as much water as possible for the coming dry year in the eastern side of the state.

[dixiegrrrrl]

53. I just read that the Olympics have only 7% of normal snowpack this year.

So both ranges look like they do in August.
That is worrisome.

[AgingAmerican]

54. Used to be

The Olympics were nice and white and beautiful with snow all winter. This year by February they look like they normally do in late July.

Probably will demise the salmon runs on the peninsula this year, not enough river water to spawn upstream. Forests will most likely start to die off too. This is what climate scientists have been predicting. Seems like it's coming down on us all at once.

[dixiegrrrrl]

56. My heart breaks for my son, who loves the outdoors

and worked in Fisheries for a few years.
Wish I could give him my memories of what it used to be up there.

You know, I keep seeing the part in Soylent Green where Edward G. Robinson dies, in a room provided for the dying where their last images are wall to wall videos of what the earth used to look like when they were young.

[AgingAmerican]

57. The suicide parlor scene

I only saw the movie once, when it first came out, but that scene is indelibly embedded in my psyche.

[giftedgirl77]

9. Inland SC, beautiful not a cloud in the sky but breezy.

[hobbit709]

10. Wet. 76° and 97% humidity.

50% chance of thunderstorms today, 60% tonight.

[Katashi_itto]

11. 9am New Orleans we are at 81 possible rain. Which, well it always rains by afternoon.

It is on the same latitude Shanghai and Cairo so go figure

[kentuck]

12. Subterranean Homesick Blues

https://vimeo.com/72540087

[frogmarch]

13. Pouring rain here in western Nebraska, and

our weekend forecast says anywhere from 8-12 inches of SNOW! What? This isn't the Colorado mountains or Deadwood, South Dakota, for crying loud! (Glad for the moisture, though, and I wish CA and other dry areas would get some.)

I saw this toon a little while ago at Bouletcorp and thought, how fitting.

http://english.bouletcorp.com/2015/03/31/3993/

[LWolf]

14. Wildly inconsistent.

Not that it's unusual for us to have wild swings in the high desert, but...

We got a heavy duty snowstorm early in November, early for us, then warm rain the rest of the winter, so the snow pack is too low. Again. We've heated up to the high end of high temps all spring, just to suddenly dip back down. This week's example: there's a 20 degree difference between Wednesday's high and today's, and it's supposed to drop down that 20 degrees again by this coming Wednesday.

It's been breezy...not unusual.

[ananda]

15. Warm and humid here.

Austin

[marmar]

16. Muggy and mid-80s in the Motor City

[MelungeonWoman]

17. Central Ohio here...

It's been fairly steady at 15 degrees below average since November 2014, heated up to 15 above average this week but early next week we will see seasonable weather, which will be a refreshing change. We'll probably go back to cool weather after that. We are not in drought but I have noticed a lack of soaking rains which we usually have plenty of in Feb, March, April. Climate change is coming but it looks like we'll go last.

[bluedigger]

18. On and off rainy all week, snowed this morning for a few minutes.

I wanted to plant the garden today, but I'm not feeling it. Can't wait til this dreary weather moves out of the Four Corners and bothers those schmucks on the Front Range.

[kentuck]

19. How long has this dreary weather been with you.

Sometimes we get your "Albuquerque lows" that bring our biggest snows.

[bluedigger]

32. About a week, I guess.

Mornings have been cold and windy with thunderstorms in the afternoon. Pretty nice when the sun's out, though. with temp's in the 70s. The San Juan's have been getting more snow, which is good. Here's a shot northeast across the hayfields from May 1st.

[eloydude]

38. It's been pissy here all week in the Front Range..

We're looking forward to the warmups after Tuesday.

The move from Arizona and Colorado continues.... Just picked the wrong week to move...

[femmocrat]

20. August-like. Too damn hot for early May.

Mid to upper 80s and humid. No relief until Tuesday. (Western PA)

[likesmountains 52]

21. It is snowing in Durango..

I'm in the same boat as Bluedigger..no garden planting today!

[kentuck]

22. I covered my tomatoes last night...

But I can bring them in tonight since I still have them in peat pots. It's supposed to get close to freezing.

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

23. 80s and cloudy.

[mnhtnbb]

24. Craptastic.

Booked to go to the beach tomorrow--Emerald Isle, NC--and the first named Tropical Storm of the
season (which isn't supposed to start until June) ,Ana, is predicted to make landfall not far from there
around 9 am. Great.

So, we'll be packed and ready to go, BUT we'll re-evaluate tomorrow morning. I don't want to
make the drive across coastal plains if there are 50-60 mph winds and/or the area is under tornado
watch. So, we may end up waiting until Monday morning to drive down.

Fun, huh?

[Recursion]

26. We're in the pre-monsoon "hot" season here

It's normally 100-104 as a high on a given day. When the rains come next month that will drop down to the high 80s, low 90s.

[SoCalNative]

27. It's May

and still cloudy, grey and rainy in Amsterdam. Never banked on so much grey when I moved here.

[elleng]

28. Almost summer-like in southern MD and DC area,

high here today around 80, Tuesday high of 89 forecast with early thunderstorms, down to high of 76 Wednesday, some rain later in the week.

[cherokeeprogressive]

29. 2.2 degrees not a cloud in the sky. It's a Big Bear Day.

[steve2470]

69. 35.96 F

[cherokeeprogressive]

70. ...

[steve2470]

71. .....

[lordsummerisle]

30. Coastal South Carolina

Periods of rain, wind. Waiting for TS Ana to come ashore early tomorrow, seems like it's taking forever.

[tularetom]

31. Headed back towards spring after two days of cool with thunderstorms and hail

We needed the rain. Last year our pasture was yellow by the first of May, today its still green.

[kentuck]

33. That's good news!

[Shrek]

34. Tornadoes expected later today

Pretty typical for May.

[underpants]

35. Everyone talks about the weather but no one does anything about it

Thanks, Obama

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

36. typically frustrating in Chicago

50s - 70s - 50s - 84 - 50s

Maddening, but nothing unusual for spring time in Chicago.

[eloydude]

37. Weather here is hell....

And supposed to snow tomorrow.

Amazing, and I got a poker game to go to this afternoon.... fortunately it's just overcast right now.

[Hiraeth]

40. The weather is here! Wish you were beautiful.

[Historic NY]

41. 72 with humidity, tree pollen count is rocking all time highs...Hudson Valley NY

in other words I'll be turning on the a/c shortly to lessen pollen effects..

We need some rain to knock it down hopefully a good thunderstorn.

[Liberal_in_LA]

42. a ill bit chilly for lots angeles. rained a tiny bit yesterday

Not enough to alleviate the drought

[RadiationTherapy]

43. 2 inches of snow and temps in the 20s at sunrise this morning.

we had rain snow sleet and hail yesterday. And the mail was delivered on time!

[PasadenaTrudy]

44. High of 69 today, 79 tomorrow

May Grey is a nice break from the unrelenting heat and sunshine. I'm in SoCal, L.A. area

[LeftInTX]

46. San Antonio: Hot and humid

[Jamastiene]

50. Tropical whatever they are calling it as of right now Ana is blowing lots of

gusty winds through my county. Rain and storms are coming and it is hotter than the hinges of forty hells. Yup, it's sprummer in NC.

[Binkie The Clown]

52. Clear, dry, sunny, high 70's here in the Oregon Ducks back yard. n/t

[DawgHouse]

55. Sunny and hot.

High of 92 today, 94 tomorrow.

The rainy season will be starting soon.

I love Orlando

[Blue_In_AK]

58. 51 and slightly drizzly,

about normal for this time of year. Perennials coming up and birch leaves about half developed.

[BumRushDaShow]

59. The fog and low clouds finally lifted

and the sun finally came out... WAIT. It's just clouded over again.

We are apparently getting some of the Jersey shore sea breeze front trying to push this far west. That is making it hujid (73% humidity). But it's been very dry of late here in the Philly area. Haven't had rain in a couple weeks now (and they had to contain a big wildfire over in Jersey in Burlington County yesterday due to the warm dry conditions).

[logosoco]

60. We have had some much needed rain here outside of St. Louis, MO.

I know it probably messed up some weekend plans, but I swear my garden plants look a little bigger every time i look out the back door!

It was too hot, too soon here, so this is much needed. Plus that green pollen dust wasn't going to go away without some nice rain. That stuff needs to wash away before the humid summer comes in.

Not very windy and the temperature must be just a tad low, according to my and my husbands achy bones!

[shanti]

61. beautiful spring day in sacramento

a perfect 76 degrees, sunny, light breeze. my tomato plants, 2 of them, both have marble sized fruits already. green beans, cukes, squash etc., coming in nicely in my 4 raised beds. it was great to get a bit of rain last week, it really helped and was very much needed!

[ScreamingMeemie]

62. Too hot. Too windy. In fact, annoyingly windy here in Houston.

[bobjacksonk2832]

63. It's pretty chilly here in Seattle, WA.

Which is pretty disappointing for me. Can't wait for the summer to come ASAP. Then again, I am a native of sunny California, and just moved here 6 months ago.

[Evergreen Emerald]

74. Lol...it is HOT here to natives!

I had to laugh when I realized where you are from. Growing up in WA when it hits 70 the shorts come out! We have the kiddy pool out and are barbequing!

I remember when my sister moved to CA she talked about how hot it was there all the time, until she became acclimated. Now she wears her coat when visiting WA because it is too cold here.

[MrMickeysMom]

64. Roller coaster of winter to summer, varying spring weather...

We went from cool 50's 60's in PA to high 80's this week, then down to 70's and 60's next week.

Weeeeee!

[backscatter712]

65. Winter storm warning on the Colorado Front Range.

Expecting 5-10 inches of snow tonight.

April showers bring May blizzards!

[kentuck]

66. Did you see the wind map?

http://hint.fm/wind/

[backscatter712]

72. Yep. I'll take "Upslope" for a thousand, Alex!

[Warpy]

67. Windy and chilly in NM

The storm center looks like it's northwest of the 4 Corners, so this is likely to be just wind and a few clouds here.

The action seems to be happening in eastern OK and western AR.

[Bobbie Jo]

68. Driving home to Indiana from Texas today

Rain, rain, rain...

Average temp, 77 degrees.

[kentauros]

73. Well, it could be worse...