Happy Tuesday!We are in for some cloudy weather tonight and for a good part of Wednesday. Some areas may actually see a little drizzle or a few sprinkles. Certainly not a soaking rain.This cloudcover is associated with another round of warm air moving our way. It will feel like Summer for the last half of this week. I actually looked up the maximum temperature records for Thursday. They are: 83 in 1954 for the shoreline and 85 in 1954 for inland areas. I think we will be very close to these temperatures.....possibly setting a new record.Enjoy it and have a great rest of the week

Hello Rain Gods?

Another pattern with large high pressure locked in across the Northeast! Other than some spotty drizzle we don't see any heavy/soaking rain until Sunday Night or Monday. Some areas in the state are running 5" to 7" below average for yearly precipitation totals! Can someone do a rain-dance? -Gil

Heating up day to day!

A record warm day for parts of Connecticut today! 90 degrees shattered the old record at Bradley International Airport. 81 degrees was the high temperature at Sikorsky Memorial missing the 1970 record of 85 degrees.
We are looking for warmer temperatures tomorrow with 90s again in many areas! Cooler temperatures will settle in for the coming weekend! Have a great night! -Gil

OKAY.....I'M BACK!

My former weather intern pointed out my lack of dedication to this BLOG. I am guilty Jen! So I would like to start posting again! It was chilly this morning. Woodbury had a low temperature of 33f this morning! This is the coolest air of the season so far.
I also had a chance to take the Thimble Islands cruise this past weekend. It cleared nicely Saturday for a good afternoon trip. The wind did turn a bit gusty....it was still very nice! Check my photos! -Gil

Neglect!

I have been really bad about posting here. I hope to get back into the habit of posting. Especially after the Severe Weather we had yesterday!
Check back! -Gil

A Hot May-Day!

CT Observations17Z 25 May 2007 STN TIME PMSL ALTM TMP DEW RH DIR SPD GUS VIS CLOUDS Weather P01
DD/HHMM hPa inHg F F % deg kt kt mile in
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BDL 25/1651 1019.6 30.11 91 58 33 320 5 10.0 SCT055
BDR 25/1652 1020.8 30.15 78 58 50 250 11 10.0 CLR
DXR 25/1653 1021.3 30.17 86 57 37 320 5 10.0 CLR 0.00
GON 25/1656 30.11 79 63 58 240 10 6.0 CLR H
HFD 25/1653 1019.7 30.11 90 55 31 4 10.0 CLR
HVN 25/1653 1020.5 30.14 77 59 54 220 9 15 10.0 CLR
IJD 25/1652 1020.2 30.13 89 54 30 340 10 10.0 CLR
MMK 25/1653 1020.0 30.13 90 55 31 20 5 10.0 CLR
OXC 25/1655 30.19 84 61 45 0 0 6.0 FEW037
YSCB 25/1700 30.36 37 36 93 360 3 6.2

Strong High pressure is heating up temperatures today.

Kelvin Helmholtz Wave Clouds in CT

Some viewers emailed me asking......what were these clouds in the sky yesterday???

Is this an awesome picture or what? A big thank you to Trish who snapped this photo along I-91 Monday5-14-07 at 1:41PM.

These clouds are called Kelvin Helmholtz Wave Clouds or (KH) instability clouds. They are formed by the interaction of different velocities between two relatively stable layers. For more information....click here.

There was generally a NW component to the wind at or above 850mb when these clouds were observed. Speeds were up to about 100kt close to 300mb.