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Only 0.16" here this morning after missing yesterday's storms. Hoping to get some more rain this afternoon.

at this rate i'd rather funnel water in from long island sound and de-salinate it by hand myself to cure a drought than have it rain again this month

.92" since last night. Light rain now

Probably not for the heat, but I don't like dampness

0.57"

52F 1.13” of rain since midnight 2.00” for storm total through 11:00 am today .

1.87" since yesterday, 4.04" for the month, 48/47 with steady rain ongoing.

Seems maybe like More of a beer flow ?

52F 1.13” of rain since midnight 2.00” for storm total through 11:00 am today .

May 8 - 12, 2020 saw snow reported 5 straight days at Detroit (T, T, 0.5, T, T). Five consecutive days of May snow has never happened before in the entire climate record. Today was likely the last frost of the season...with the first only 4.5-5 months away!

Only .2 inches overnight. Nothing yesterday. Not the rain we needed here.

Frosty May morning in SE MI. Detroit officially got to 36F, with some rural areas dipping below freezing.

Just judging by radar, is there dry air coming in from the east or is just a more South to North flow?

Quick mover . Dry slot in by late afternoon. Looks like 1” -1.5” based on that look

That’s my theory. This time of year there is a huge temperature difference at the north wall of the Gulf Stream. From 80 degree water to 50s in a matter of miles. And the convection seems to fire just to the north west of the north wall.

River's Edge trails are probably pretty wild rn.

Yep.

Looks like a winter storm, quick burst then dry slot

.14 since midnight....Potomac at Brunswick looks higher than it's been in a long time....good news as we head into summer.

One positive is that now both weekend days are forecast to be dry. So this will be gone by tomorrow morning.

Does it have anything to do with the gulf stream? We just had another bout of heavy rain a few minutes ago.

it sounds like this would also lead to cooler summers. so we are getting +nao in the winter and -nao in the spring and summer. Based on this alone I would forecast a +nao next winter with snowfall under 20 inches the more rain and blocking we get now and into summer the less cold and snow we will have in the winter. It's a formula that has worked for decades.

90 degree days in the summer and 90 inch snowfall in the winter and the added bonus of being ecologically friendly and not a light pollution mecca like the east coast is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagstaff,_Arizona Dark Sky City [edit] Flagstaff takes one of its nicknames from its designation as the world's first International Dark Sky City, with deliberate measures to reduce light pollution beginning in 1958[139] supported by the environmentally-aware population and community advocates, government and elected officials, and the assistance of observatories in the area – including the United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station and Lowell Observatory.[140][141][142][143] The city's designation as an International Dark Sky City was on October 24, 2001, by the International Dark-Sky Association, after a proposal by the Flagstaff Dark Skies Coalition to start the recognition program. It is seen as a world precedent in dark sky preservation.[144] Before this, it had been nicknamed the "Skylight City" in the 1890s, the same decade that the Lowell Observatory was founded.[145] In 1958, it passed Ordinance 400,[139] which outlawed using large or powerful searchlights within city limits. In the 1980s a series of measures were introduced for the city and Coconino County, and the Dark Sky Coalition was founded in 1999 by Chris Luginbuhl and Lance Diskan. Luginbuhl is a former U.S. Naval astronomer,[146] and Diskan had originally moved to Flagstaff from Los Angeles so that his children could grow up able to see stars, saying that "part of being human is looking up at the stars and being awestruck."[145] It was reported that even though greater restrictions on types of public lighting were introduced in 1989,[147] requiring them all to be low-emission, some public buildings like gas stations hadn't updated by 2002, after the Dark Sky designation.[148] Flagstaff and the surrounding area is split into four zones, each permitted different levels of light emissions. The highest restrictions are in south and west Flagstaff (near NAU and its observatory), and at the Naval, Braeside, and Lowell Observatories.[56] Photographs detecting emissions taken in 2017 show that Flagstaff's light is 14 times less than another Western city of comparable size, Cheyenne, Wyoming, which Luginbuhl described as "even better than [they] might have expected".[146]

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