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Larry, I was down here, and mile or two from Shack, but oddly the event doesn't stick in my mind. Maybe I was out of town? Thanks for the warm fuzzies I do love to write. As for the airport, I am aware that a central spot that can keep detailed records is necessary, and back in the old days the airport was not the swirling unreality of jet wash, and aberrant heat. Prop planes probably didn't effect the climate like jets do. And, to be fair, it's pilots that needed the up to date findings minute by minute. My sole access to decent weather reporting at one time was PBS at 7am giving pilots the latest updates on what was happening coming into and leaving the airport. Particularly interesting were reports from planes as to what altitude they were encountering snow, or sleet. So, yeah, while I wish there were scattered reporting stations that would give a local specific, and not general, look at weather around the largest sprawling settlement in human history, I'm not sure the money would be there to man stations, record readings, correlate findings, and store the records. Oddly most citizens are not concerned about the weather on a micro level anyway, lol, unless it's something that will be more than hot or cold, wet or frozen, placid or dangerous. And even then it's way too general. A good example was tonight about a quarter to nine when the weather radio and my phone buzzed with an alert for a tornado. Run, hide, seek shelter, flee, flee, cover your head. I was calm, because I realize the hysteria that is what general reporting goes with...and it would be way way too general....and the siren hadn't gone off.... and I pulled up several radar sites and noted the storm in question was going north of me, and probably by a good bit. And that's the rub, with too general reporting. If a big wind blows a shingle off an outhouse roof 100 miles from here, these days it's reported to everyone hysterically. No specificity....is it radar indicated, or on the ground? Where is it, like what town? What roads? None of that. If was just warning, get in the basement, the sky is falling. I stream tv so don't get local weather with the street by street reporting. An aside about the airport, and it's questionable environment for weather reporting, when I was repainting a sign for Hertz in the 90's, I had to remove the metal sign from a building in the parking lot, and bring it home to work on, and was stunned to discover that is was deeply coated with jet fuel residue, basically diesel fuel, kerosene, naptha. That let me know that the whole airport area is awash in droplets of various unburned fuels from the planes coming and going. And does the reporting of the weather and climo coming from the airport take the nature of the air quality over that space into account? Droplets of diesel fuel, acre after acre of concrete, jet wash...it's all got to affect what happens in the climate over the airport. I just think we could do much better, if it mattered to enough people.

Beer?

It’s a gustnado. Meh.

This is truth. I had my daughter’s senior meal at church tonight. I dressed in my winter long sleeve. Tomorrow morning senior day at church is going to be chilly. Still better than hot. Had to turn on the heat in the truck on the way home. Then turned on the heat in the house.

Finished Saturday with 1.01" of rain.

Starter fertilizer

Observed is probably the wrong word. I would imagine models fill in the gaps of observations or Vice versa.

First time trying to grow grass. The rain and garden hose are getting the job done. Tomorrow’s rain will be welcome. Look at these little babies.

Looks like the activity is coming to an end for sw Lehigh County this evening - 0.60” today and 0.73” for the weekend thus far. Wish I had a little bit more rain tonight but really happy with the lightning show. There are definitely more opportunities coming in the next couple days.

Dang, radar is looking legit again.

0.00" towards drought busting. I thought I felt a rain drop earlier... turns out it was bird poop.

almost a inch of rain for nyc.

At least we live in an area of the country with minimal severe weather so the impacts will be muted. Out west and south will be a real issue, but that’s what they voted for

Nice round of soaking rain and storms tonight, and there's more coming. Even more in the next few days. Drought guy must be ecstatic.

Push alerts came in as it was pulling out.

Quite the light show and about 0.8" rain in 15 mins

we've got just under an inch so far. round 2 came in with a HUGE bolt of lighting, followed by the power going off...and then back on. then everything calmed down. hoping for more rain tomorrow.

Totally busted the Trace previously recorded for the month thanks to the soaking 0.01" added today west side of BWI.

0.60” from this evening. Good start but crossing my fingers and toes for more.

NWS is running on fumes, we are lucky there are warnings at all.

Got lucky this evening with both rounds adding up to 2.30". First storm did a little back building and had two rounds of pea size hail. Solid storm.

Going to call out - in case we are tracking these things now: the severe thunderstorm warning area seems off (looking at RadarScope) - we had no warning here. this seemed to not match radar: * This severe thunderstorm will be near... Mott Haven and Midtown Manhattan around 1040 PM EDT. Laguardia Airport and Jackson Heights around 1045 PM EDT. East Tremont around 1050 PM EDT. Co-op City around 1100 PM EDT. City Island around 1105 PM EDT.

Half inch on the nose here.

Hail! and frequent lightning on UWS.