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May 2024 Pacific Northwest Weather
Looking at a chance of thunderstorms tomorrow with highs in the 50s. Crazy how we can get a convective atmosphere with temperatures below 55F in mid May, pretty much on the 45° meridian line. It's also pretty cool how in a favorable year we can spend half or even more of the second part of the month with thicknesses below 540dam. All this while the rest of the country rapidly starts to roast again. Even Maine has trouble getting airmasses as good as we do beyond this time of year. The Pacific Ocean really makes our climate the dream of the nation.- 2
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May 2024 Observations and Discussion
I now have all my summer garden in. This year I planted my usual tomatoes and cucumbers in the back yard and in the front yard I have put flowers in several planters with petunias, germaniums, marigolds gladiolas and nasturtiums. While not a lot I love eating tomatoes and cucumbers off the vine and the flowers make the front yard look good. The planting was about a week earlier than some past years. We are now just past the halfway mark for May. So far this May the mean at Grand Rapids is 60.1 that is a departure from average of +3.3. The high so far this month is 80 on the 13th and the low so far is 40 on the 12th. If that low of 40 holds for the rest of the month it will be the 4th warmest minimum for any May at Grand Rapids. There has been 2.18” of rainfall so far that is +0.09” from average. There have been 83 Heating Degree Days that is a departure of -65 there have been 6 Cooling Degree Days for a departure of -7. This is the warmest start to May since May of 2018 so not that long ago. That mean of 60.1 so far is well down the list of past warm May’s the top warmest May’s at Grand Rapids are (1977 65.7°) (1896 65.3) (1982 65.0) (2018 64.8) (1991 64.6) and 1922 64.0. Yesterday was yet another great late spring day at Grand Rapids with a H/L of 79/53 there was no rain fall. The sun was out 49% of the possible time. The highest wind gust was 26 MPH out of the W. For today the average H/L is now up to 71/49 the record high of 90 was set in 1962 the record low of 28 was set in 1973 the most rainfall of 3.31” fell in 2000 last year the H/L was 69/38. -
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Polite Politics
I'll post it here as well, cause why the frick not? I'm rather enjoying not slinging mud with people who have no interest in learning how the world really is. I broke a longstanding rule of not arguing politics/religion online for quite a while now, and I think I will go back to it. Before I adhere to it, I want to post one last resource for anyone actually wanting more objective knowledge about the mess Israel has found itself in with regards to Gaza, The West Bank, and the rest of The Middle East (Especially Iran): If you have the discipline to actually watch the entire video (including the Q&A session), you will know more about this topic than 99.99% of Americans who would rather parrot garbage they hear from disreputable, agenda driven sources. The entire video is pure brain food for those who wish to learn. May peace and justice prevail.
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