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Total for the event for me was 2.32" according to my new rain gauge.

2.38 good drink

I am curious to see how bad Dr. No looks in comparison tomorrow....

Pretty sweet air mass. Not a cloud in the sky.

The H300 PDO or upper air PDO index came in at -2.03 for July. The last time this index was positive at all was 2015-16. The last time it was +1 or greater was 1997-98. 2026 1 -1.61 2026 2 -1.58 2026 3 -1.73 2026 4 -1.70 2026 5 -1.93 2026 6 -2.05 2026 7 -2.03

My phone being a bitch. Any ways-

Big difference down here in the cities. We made it to 86.

When’s Elias doing a press conference? My ass needs a good smoking

83 rn. Looking forward to the first real fall cold front.

D.I.T.T.Y. That’s a weenie…you gotta let him know

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If you read my post more clearly that is what I said. Bridgeport is the only major site with such a heavy rainfall departure since June 1st. So for the heaviest totals to be more spread out more sites would need to be like Bridgeport. The other major sites are similar in that they missed the heaviest totals.

A few links on home station siting https://www.weather.gov/media/epz/mesonet/CWOP-Siting.pdf https://www.youngusa.com/blog/siting-how-to-choose-the-best-location-for-your-weather-station/

https://thetradeoff.substack.com/p/the-wildfire-climate-change-burn?r=1q3cpv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true The Wildfire-Climate Change Burn Area Paradox Climate Change is making wildfires worse, but global wildfire burn area is declining RYAN KATZ-ROSENE AUG 03, 2026 Consider the following two statements about global wildfires from two high-level scientific reviews on the matter: AND What?! Are wildfires getting worse, or is the situation getting better? What can we expect going forward - more burn area globally as a result of a warming planet, or lessin concert with the present trend? This post wades into this apparent paradox and reasserts the idea that both the present and the future of wildfire burn area is highly linked to anthropogenic climate change. Yes, global burn area is declining, but it’s uneven regionally Globally, burn area from fires is indeed showing a robust declining trend over the last two decades. Some regions, however, have seen a pronounced increase over this period (especially boreal forest ecosystems). The longer term trends, as shown in the figure below, vary substantially from one model and dataset to the next, but generally speaking the story is that northern remote areas (especially boreal forest ecosystems and northern peatlands) are seeing an increase in recent decades, and tropical areas - especially in Africa’s savannah areas - have seen a decrease. Why is this happening? The specifics are complex, but the general explanation can be found in major expansions in agricultural development in Africa, which have helped drive “significant declines [in burn area] in African savannahs… despite significant increases in fire weather, and especially extreme fire weather, in the region.” This is, after all, savannah-grasslands account for more than half of global burn area, and so a significant reduction in that biome has a pronounced effect on the global totals.

Need more cowbell, er, I mean more WW WB CFS maps posted. This just doesn't cut it.

I have similar issues, but with out buildings pretty much all around. Mine is now sitting in the back of a utv in a milk crate because I haven’t fixed it the pole that broke off. Trying to decide exactly where would be the best location to put it back up. 90 acres and still fucked.

Disagree with that. Bridgeport is the clear outlier and most stations were nearly identical. For the rain to be more even, Bridgeport would need to be more like the other 5 sites, not the reverse.

So they didnt move Rogers. I better see an extension announcement soon.

You’d think you would be used to disappointment by now.

That’s what we’ve seen happen in the last several years. In this el nino, we don’t need the PDO to be super positive. We just need to get it to neutral, then we’re in play. Stays at -2 or close to it? Might as well sell the snowblowers.