Yeah, 2015 to 2019 was the driest 5 year stretch for May on record, so it's rebounded a bit. Hopefully we get another legitimately wet one this year. Always ideal to delay the browning until summer actually starts.

Very heavy mist here

WET!

This is demonstrably false. The radiative transfer physics are relatively straightforward in this case. You see it in the effect on diurnal snow accumulations in Feb/Mar vs Dec/Jan. Even though it’s only a slight increase in the incident angle of solar radiation, the actual power in W/m^2 doesn’t change linearly, it’s a significant difference.

Interesting that the 30 year average is more than the period of record average. Regionally, recent years have been better than the very dry 2015-2019 period.