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The sun needs another half billion years of life and that'll do it. Lol Old Sol is a mid aged star... over the next billion years it will increase in luminosity by almost 10%. Then it will begin fusing helium, and start expanding... It'll burn helium for another couple of billion years but then it will begin to expand so vast that in engulfs the orbit of Venus and probably knock on Earth's doorstep. It will be a cooler red giant at that time, but ... "cooler" is a relative word. Earth will be a cinder. I lifeless red how planet that may not even survive, as the expulsion by the giant phase of our start as it near the planetary nebula end game, will impose a lot or orbital drag and Earth could decay and end up inside the envelope of the sun's our layers. We really are approaching the late innings of this planets nurturing life potential. Demarcated as the "Goldie Locks Zone" ... it's the orbital distance that is ideal for liquid water, and a planet's only magnetic field protecting it from harsh radiation from space ...et al, allows all Trump to be elected... LOL... But, the hell on Earth he brings - or is trying to - will get here when that GLZ migrates out and leaves Earth in a Venus predicament. Some models have Earth like Venus in a couple billion years. But, folks need to be aware that within a single life time or two, none of that matters. The "ecological domino collapse" scenario is not just plausible, due to rate of climate change surpassing biological adaptation rates. In fact, that can happen while the Earth is still technically capable of supporting complex life, including humans. The codependents is more than a first order derivatives. There are transitive/non-linear stresses that are 2ndary and tertiary ... these are the dominoes. And they are indirectly still needing the total vitality of interrelated health of each input into the system.

Another batch of rain about to hit Nassau and Suffolk. Some spots will get 4” from this storm

That 6.88" in Prospect, CT is pretty impressive. 7.36" in Greene County, NY south of ALB... that area does large E/SE upslope. Pretty interesting upslope/downslope couplets from the Berkshires and Catskills. SE flow... high amounts up the east slope, then much less down the west slope, then increase again on the east side of the Catskills.

I've had wind damage from sprinkles. If the cold pool gets establish, it can really maintain itself with the help of evaporation cooling too. I don't think it's very common here, but it can happen.

Nice cel just to my E with good lighting and thunder. I’ve been in no man’s land mostly for this entire multi day event outside Saturday night.

Great weather for you guys who fertilized and seeded.

I'm at a loss here.. the other day I chased a storm in winchendon and coming home near my house I noticed branches down and you could tell it was windy but the ground wasn't wet and we missed the storm.. today I took the backroads home from market basket in Athol and was driving on rt 202 towards Templeton. I noticed about a 2 mile stretch where trees were snapped and a bunch blown over and they were mature bigger trees.. we didn't get it like that here but it would of been the path the storm would have took. My question is can you get a microburst being on the edge of the storm and no precip?

Can do without the hail but would be happy with another .5" of rain or so if lucky enough to get under a heavier downpour.

Heavy showers popped up an hour ago, absolutely poured as a cell stalled and intensified. Another cell heading this way with thunder

Storms late this afternoon might be hailers

Kittatinny Ridge-Appalachian Trail in western and northern SC and the Del River on the west side might play a role. I agree w your obs.

Looks like a good call - cells are firing quickly and getting ready to move into our area...

Autoimmune usually can be detected on CAT scans, Xrays or Ultrasounds. I have been through multiple rounds of each of those and nothing has detected. Nothing of consequence has come up on anything that I've gone through, including bloodwork.

I was hoping for the low end (maybe like and inch or so) but wasn't expecting this. Maybe a storm will pop up later like you said though.

Wow 0.26, talk about unlucky. I'm not thrilled with my 0.75, but I would have been very irritated had I gotten only a quarter inch.

Yeah it's more likely that the storms will stay to the north and west this afternoon, but there's a slight chance we could get lucky.

The eastern hunterdon co/western somerset co area that I'm located in missed most of this if that is the case. The cocorahs map shows that well. I'm totally fine with the .26" though. Didn't really want my dogs wet and muddy, haha.

We're probably done til Thursday night and Friday

Received .62" last 24 hours here - 8am to 8am. Four day event total = 1.22". Quality over quantity. The 1.22" has been slow, gentle and spread over 4 days. All of it got to soak in instead of running off. No excessive totals (3-4"+) for this forum so far but some places did better than others.

Yeah, points east of NYC haven’t seen 100° heat since the 2010-2013 era. That was when the ridge was centered near the Great Lakes keeping the flow more westerly. These days we get a big ridges east of New England keeping the flow more onshore. So it’s more about the higher dew points for us.

Interesting setup. You're in the monsoon and then some if the banding sets up over you. I'm still at 0.8" total for the wet stretch. We'll see if anything sets up this afternoon. If the sun were to break through, that could be entertainment for someone.

it tolls for thee, too, Ray

looks like the city and NE NJ like Teterboro didn't get that hot either. The heat was much more extensive back in 2010 and 2011.

Gotta say...the Euro from late last week anyways did a damn good job at nailing the second half of the week here. The GFS was super aggressive with building in the high pressure. Euro sniffed out precip along the weak cold front sagging south Thursday.

For whom the bell tolls...apparently not @LibertyBell.