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1.59” here in E CT after the 1.79” last weekend from the NorEaster. No Stein here

End looks near. Really dumped after lunch time. 1.70"

This year has been absolutely horrible for small biting/stinging winged critters.

We have already had someone lighting fires along 540 in Raleigh.

Nice burst of heavy rain and wind when that back edge came through. Up to 1.24”

Once stations got wireless I got much more interested in getting my own station, plus where I was in life at the time. I do remember putting my old Weather Monitor II on two different roofs in the late 90's and early 00's, not the best move to have the entire station up there but live and learn. Its much easier all around now. I remember you giving me pointers on how to connect to my computer and then that got even easier with the Davis WeatherLink Live.

1. 12Z UKMET (go to 168) maps once again have the low stay in the S Car and go west into Nicaragua; low is a bit stronger with it down to 1003 at strongest, which should easily be strong enough to be a TD although the textual output doesn’t show that. Will UK for 98L be a miserable fail, the big winner, or in between? Stay tuned! 2. 12Z JMA (goes to 192): has a cat 1 hurricane headed due west to just offshore the Nicaragua/Honduras border

If that pans out on the Euro, I'll donate to the board. Euro long range QPF bias is real.

You can't really compare the two because we are on the coast and get a bunch of systems they miss out on. So I have no idea.

Today here I’m experiencing the first widespread dewpoints below 50 of the season. They’re actually way down near 40. It’s a beautiful sunny day. I’m looking forward to my evening walk.

Yes me also. Had Davis equipment back in the 90's before the vantage pro came out. Also had a heathkit thermometer which I built with my dad probably 45 years ago.

How is it that we always have a ton of mosquitoes and gnats in summers when it rains a lot though and very few in a summer like 2002 or 2010 when it's dry?

It’s fitting that we end the drought and finish the year above average precip-wise.

that's good for average annual temperature but for measuring summer heat we have to go by 90, 95 and 100 degree days. Of course it's rapidly warming in the winter, but this isn't the case in terms of our hot summers. This was the first summer in a long time when it hit 100+ , it's been more than a decade since we've had a summer this hot.

Remember the old days Rob of installing weather equipment...no wireless yet...running wires, drilling holes in the house to get the wires to the inside unit. I've had an anemometer up on the roof for as long as I can remember... luckily it's a ranch home so not too high... don't think I can go up there anymore so hoping it continues to work well.

What is it for JFK, I can already tell the rainfall averages by decade are much lower here. Our summers are usually dry and have been ever since I can remember (starting with the early 80s).

Yeah, but DC is drier, so are we getting more wet or drying as we become DC?

The amount of insects isn’t going to significantly change if we get around 50” year like we have since the 1970s. Mold issues in recent years like the college dorms after the summer were more a function of the very high dew points. There is a large vacant parcel of land by me that they cut every few months. The weeds grew just as fast to a significant height even with one of the driest summers on record here. So weeds are a very hearty and adaptable species of plants. Some people have pollen allergies that can drop after the heavy rains wash some of the extra pollen out of the air. Plus I didn’t see any reduction in pollen on the local cars during tree pollen season even though it was still pretty dry. You can see a steady decadal average around 50.00” in NYC since the 1970s. It’s the 1960s which really stood out for drought. It was rated as a 500 year drought from a long tree rings study from the Catskills down to closer to NYC. Over the last year smaller watershed systems such as up here in CT and NJ saw a drop in their reservoir levels. Some close to the Jersey Shore were near record low levels since they were established. But the Catskills haven’t been as dry as other areas closer to NYC. So NYC hasn’t had any Reservior issues. But some local farmers have been having crop issues with how dry it has been. NYC average decadal rainfall since the 1960s through 2024 1960s…39.74” 1970s….52.32” 1980s…49.46” 1990s….47.19” 2000s…52.14” 2010s….50.76 2020s….51.41”…through 2024

I have numerous Davis weather equipment. I used to have a heathkit, which I built, and a weathermax weather station. Sold both of those.

Central Park's average annual temperatures from the last several years (which is easily cooler than Newark and LGA) is about the same as Washington DC's average annual temp from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. And that's the warmer location, not to be confused with the cooler Dulles Airport.

Lowlands jack or bust

I'm all in. I'll fire up the thread. Flood apocalypse or bust

Coward!

I'm a gambling man and I understand I might be going out on a limb here, but I'll take the under. Just a hunch

This is for NYC https://www.extremeweatherwatch.com/cities/new-york/most-yearly-precipitation Here is DC, which people say our climate now is. They get less rain than here https://www.extremeweatherwatch.com/cities/washington-dc/most-yearly-precipitation