Weather

One hell of a ride home in that wind and rain. Slow going and had to ride the middle lane as left and right were flooded in a bunch of spots along the south shore.

Sun is trying. Chilly.

74* @ Boca Raton…
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Lost power at 09:00, but Genny is humming along...

Beautiful crisp morning at 44 degrees and still.

Asked Alexa the temperature, it's 37° with a high of 71° :rolleyes:

Beautiful crisp morning at 44 degrees and still.

similar temps here… cell…
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🌴 🌴 🌴70now,sunny,,.high today 83,,, low tonite 65*,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,ahhhhhhhhhh,,,,,,8-),,,,,,,,,,,,,[COLOR=rgb(26, 188, 156)] ><)))):>

What a beautiful day I wish I was riding, but I got adult shit to do😞

March 14th
76
Little too hot - a little too soon

makes one wonder just how hot is it gonna get this summer...............................

March 14th
76
Little too hot - a little too soon

makes one wonder just how hot is it gonna get this summer...............................

wader maureen been saying the same thing,,, summer how hot🥵,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,this morning 65 sun/clouds,,,,,,,,,high today is 85 and low 65* tonite,,,,,,,,,,,,,,[COLOR=rgb(26, 188, 156)] ><)))):>

Ice out data from ME. I was supposed to ice fish off a stocked local pond this winter, but every time we started to get significant safe ice, a warm spell came in and melted it. Just NUTS!!

Learned a new type of winter precipitation yesterday. No, we didn't see it, but folks around Portland did...

[HEADING=2][SIZE=6]Was that hail or graupel that fell in parts of Maine on St. Patrick’s Day?[/SIZE][/HEADING]
Hail covered lawns around Midcoast Maine as thunderstorms moved through Sunday afternoon. Or was it graupel?

This has been one of Maine’s weirdest winter seasons in recent memory, maybe even in a very long time. After several inside runner storm tracks that [left the coastline battered and bruised]('https://www.pressherald.com/2024/02/23/mills-makes-formal-requests-for-federal-disaster-relief-from-january-storms-that-caused-70-3-million-in-damage-to-public-infrastructure/'), record warm temperatures, and a snow drought, one would think Mother Nature was done with her surprises.

Nope.

On the last weekend of winter, hail covered lawns around Midcoast Maine as thunderstorms moved through Sunday afternoon. Meanwhile, it was snowing in The County, while southern Maine made a run for 60 degrees.

But was it hail that covered some Mainers’ lawns – or was it really graupel? Let’s discuss.

The American Meteorological Society definition of graupel reads: Heavily rimed snow particles, often called snow pellets; often indistinguishable from very small soft hail except for the size convention that hail must have a diameter greater than 5 mm. Sometimes distinguished by shape into conical, hexagonal, and lump (irregular) graupel.

The American Meteorological Society definition of hail reads: Precipitation in the form of balls or irregular lumps of ice, always produced by convective clouds, nearly always cumulonimbus.

An individual unit of hail is called a hailstone.

By convention, hail has a diameter of 5 mm or more, while smaller particles of similar origin (formerly called small hail) may be classed as either ice pellets or snow pellets. Thunderstorms that are characterized by strong updrafts, large liquid water contents, large cloud-drop sizes and great vertical height are favorable to hail formation.

There were reports of graupel on Sunday in Cape Elizabeth, Limington, Randolph and Scarborough.

🌴 71 now and sunny,,,,,today cloudy //SUN ,,,,maybe a thunder storm ?,,,, high 83,,, and the low tonite 53*,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,[COLOR=rgb(26, 188, 156)] ><)))):>

36 going up to 47 low 40. 51-37 is normal.

32 wind chill 21 going up to 42 low 29.

31 wind chill 23 High 43 low 39.

Lots of rain tomorrow could see 3 to 5 inches in a few locations

I am seeing 1-2.5 inches total for the two days

We just switched Sunday dinner to tomorrow since it will be perfect for a rainy day. Big pot of sauce with Meatballs and sausages, lazanga for Sunday.