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Yesterday was absolutely more ripe. I do think they’ve been too liberal with the FF Watches recently, but yesterday needed one and it worked out. I’ve been so busy at work these past few months. Can’t wait for my 2+ week vacation in 9 days. Just a set of 7 night shifts stand in the way of me and freedom

One idea that had been tried is to make mice who are genetically resistant to Lyme disease. Cut off the vector. decent results from MIT. But then the whole Jurassic Park thing… https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2024/11/07/scientists-make-leap-creating-lyme-resistant-mice#:~:text=A team of researchers at,on the Vineyard for years.

Screaming pac jet from the western pacific heatwave. Nina signature southeast ridge. Time to cancel winter 25-26

Got a random shower right over my area lol

0.53" over the past 24 hours. 2.10" since July 1st which isn't bad considering the average at ISP for the entire month of July is under 3". No where near as dry as the last few summers

88/75/98. Wonder if one of these random showers will fire overhead?

So wanted to check into the rain and lack of rain here. May 2025 monthly total was 10.04" June 2025 monthly total was 5.36" July 2025 to date total is 1.03” July last year the monthly total was 1.25” and then August I had 7.67”. I have currently started noticing the tree line behind my house and some leaves are turning yellow. So even with all that rain we got in May the lack of a decent deluge between June 28th and today is showing. I am hoping that the rest of July we at least get something and that August ramps back up again. Mind you this is in my area in SW Frederick Co. I know just recently the NE side of the county had that day where a cell sat and just dumped rain. But the measurable rain in my area is really lacking.

Cuz big ticks up your ass is bad for your health?

Might roll differently if one hid in your short hairs and gave you Lyme or anaplas. We're in the woods with forest close to 3 sides of the house, so the tactic below would likely be futile here: Years ago I read of using drier lint (or cotton) mixed with pyrethrin - safely, with gloves - and stuffed into TP rolls or the like. We call the main disease-carrying tick a deer tick, but small rodents - everywhere in the woods - are the main animal vectors and they love that stuffing for nests, thus eliminating the ticks. However, one must place rolls no more than 10 feet apart near the lawn edge and cover them to prevent rain from soaking them. A lawn with 100 yards of edge would require 30 rolls, and they would need to be replaced every few weeks.

New daily record high for July 14 in the GLSEA database. Prior record for today's date is shown in red trace (2005). The coldest for today's date is highlighted in green (2001).

About 70% cloud coverage now - still clinging on. Temp shot up to 84

New landslides this week on Mt Colden in the Adirondacks from the heavy rain the other day. Two freshies from the DEC photos. One on the left and one on the right, lighter colors than the old ones.

84.5/67 Should tickle 90° in S NH.

Checking in on the lake temperatures. Very favorable swimming conditions, with the exception of Superior. Lake Erie looks like its cooking this year.

Ticks are relatively slow and take awhile to find a spot they like to latch into you. Just gotta check yo self before you wreck yo self.

4" in Bridgewater and Manville area and I'm 10 mins west of them and got .75" Crazy

Weird how people are fired up over the watch issuance thing - all it does is let me know that if the area I am in has a storm set up over it, I need to be cautious when travelling out and about over the possibility of high water. That's helpful as hell, to distinguish the danger of heightened localized flooding chances from any given pop up storm in this set-up versus other times when you don't need to worry as much about that from pop up storms. I know it was nice to have that tucked in the back of my head as I drove in the deluge last night - I was cautious as hell approaching low spots in the road near creeks to make sure that there was not pooling water in those areas.

My dad was the first person in MA to get Ehrlichiosis. Same deal, soembody from CDC flew up from Atlanta to interview him.

ready for the clusters

Spotty, but slow moving and intense storms today. Once again, I believe the watch is justified.

80° SSTs now just east of NJ. 15 E Barnegat Li 1630 78 80

12z guidance bit of a mixed back but looks decent, at least north of 88

I’m all for not using pesticides and weed killers. It’s bad for wildlife as a whole, but man if I get a tick on me you bet I’m taking that bastard off and lighting it on fire. Weather wise, it looks like we finally get relief from the humidity beginning later Friday and into the weekend. I’ll take it.

I must point out that, in a rather shocking turn of events, the proverbial mercury fell to 63F last night shortly before midnight standard time, and continued slipping all the way to 59F, as a northwesterly flow filtered in cooler, drier, but rather filthy air from Canada. This is certainly nothing unusual for the city of Cleveland in July, but it did bring about the end of this streak at 23 consecutive days with a low at or above 65F. Looking at the higher streaks, it's worth pointing out that the official observations didn't move to the airport until June 1, 1941, but records date back to 1938. There was no 27-day streak at the airport in 1938, that's for sure... not even close. And, in 1872, the thermometer was housed in a recessed window on the north side of a building downtown. So, yeah, I don't really think that's comparable to modern measurements. While Cleveland Hopkins International Airport saw the temperature drop to 59F this morning. The observed low at Burke Lakefront Airport was 66F.