(05-13-2024, 04:29 AM)Midnight Rambler Wrote:(05-11-2024, 06:33 AM)TomK Wrote: I can't remember the last time we had weather like this in May, including violent thunderstorms. It seems very unusual to me.
I don't know if they made it down to BI, but I remember in 2014 there were torrential downpours on Kauai on Memorial Day weekend. I remember because I was on vacation there at the time lol.
No doubt we can get heavy downpours in May, but I can't remember when we also had severe thunderstorms in May. You need really cold temperatures high up in the atmosphere which is why we tend to get thunderstorms during the winter, not in the spring. Obviously, I'm not including tropical storms which are a different beast, but we don't get those in the spring either!