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closing in on an inch here. nice steady rain, no real downpours and very little wind.

Ed getting bombed. Up to 1.6" there. Only 0.24" our house

Update, I tried the dish soap and water. Didn't work. I had to call a wasp removal service. I could have removed them myself by getting a bee suit, etc. But didn't want to deal with all that. I watched YouTube videos where bee removers got stung through their gloves. I'm like hell naw. So, they came and dug out the nest and guaranteed the queens would be removed. I had to wait a week before I could mow and another week to put dirt back in the hole and plant grass. I still see wasps (or bees?) flying around my dry garden. I hope there aren't other nests. But at least I can mow my lawn again. lol

60.5° +RA 0.80” and counting

https://www.weather.gov/media/okx/Climate/CentralPark/monthlyannualprecip.pdf

it was already clear here for a few hours but the clouds have come back.

The updated SSTA maps are showing that the marine heatwave has increased even more since last week….+11F anomalies off of China now. That’s insane

How were the 1980s and 1990s in terms of rainfall Chris? This is what I grew up with and what I consider to be normal. Also, here's a pertinent question The question is do you really want all that extra rainfall if it means more creepy and parasitic insects, more mold and higher pollen levels and more weeds? I'd much rather we just burn off the vegetation. My allergies were lowest in 2010 and that's no coincidence.

Breezy , staring to clear out.

I think up by you, you average more rainfall because of higher terrain and you're not in the summer dry spot that we have down here on the south shore of Long Island. I've been used to drier summers for most of my life.

But take a summer like 2010 as an example, it was both hot and dry and we didn't have the kind of drought we had back in the 1960s or 1980s. Our reservoirs have been fine for decades now. I think the last real drought we had was in 2002.

The question is do you really want all that extra rainfall if it means more creepy and parasitic insects, more mold and higher pollen levels and more weeds? I'd much rather we just burn off the vegetation. My allergies were lowest in 2010 and that's no coincidence.

I thought it was around 42 inches because growing up, that's what The Weather Almanac listed as the long term average for NYC.... This book was published in 1973 with an update in 1991 (I have both). The last 30 year average it mentions is the 1961-1990 (the previous one was 1951-80). What were NYC rainfall normals for 1951-1980 and 1961-1990? Was it really that much cooler prior to 1970-- look at all these hot and dry summers we had before: 1944, 1948, 1949, 1953, 1955, 1966, we have some extremely long and very extreme heatwaves in there that have not been matched since.

Just need the 27th and 31st dry.

Coming up on this great October storm....

You should have said that, not that 40" wasn't equal to 40".

Yup! Just got it setup - Took inspiration from your setup and added to WU and PWS to start

.53" of much-needed rain overnight. lots of reports of trees down with the wind yesterday--i didn't realize it was supposed to be that windy. my front porch got rearranged, lol, and the neighborhood Halloween decorations have switched owners.

Meh

We pour!

Hope it does not knock off too many leaves, color is just starting to pop in LSV.

Hello. I'm talking about evapotranspiration in summer causing more water evaporating at a quicker rate. You know how how much more strain a +3 July puts on water supplies? Now add a couple more degrees over that for an above normal July for our current normals. So say a +5 July or August. If you think you can retain the same amount of water with months that much warmer than they used to be you would be mistaken. I was talking about parched surfaces and water supplies and drought.

Firehose. Wind driven rain. Gusts 30ish.

I can only go back to 2017 to look at trust worthy annual precipitation amounts since I didn't start melting down frozen precipitation to get accurate readings until the fall of 2016. Boy, I forgot how wet 2023 was, 66.85" that year for me but I digress. My annual average is 49.18", so right in the ball park of what you posted above.

HRRR has me getting steined.