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Another .33” of precip, which brings me to a total of exactly one inch over the last three days. Let’s see how much we can pile on through the holiday weekend. Current temp of 49 is the low. Sure seems like MDT’s min max record of 54 is going down.

2.62" for the event so far.

41 degrees and rain here in the Poconos. Is it November? Lol.

I love the RainDrop app. It is amazing on accuracy. https://www.raindrop.farm

We are up to 1.43” so far. Decided to open our windows and not turn on the tv this morning. Been listening to the beautiful sounds of the rain, birds chirping, and the light breeze bringing music from the chimes. God is blessing us with His voice through nature. Doesn't get any better.

3.35” since Wednesday

The closest that we got in the 2020s at a station with a long enough period of record to a monthly record low was in May 2020 with the 3rd coldest monthly minimum at Newark. The last time we had a #1 coldest monthly minimum and all-time low around the area was in January 1994 in Sussex ,NJ. It’s much more common these days to have a top 5 warmest monthly max like the other day with the 100° heat away from the sea breeze. Time Series Summary for NEWARK LIBERTY INTL AP, NJ - Month of May Lowest Minimum Temperature Click column heading to sort ascending, click again to sort descending. 1 1861 31 0 2 1947 33 0 - 1907 33 0 - 1855 33 0 3 2020 34 0 - 1903 34 0 - 1900 34 0 - 1874 34 0 - 1854 34 0 - 1851 34 0 4 1966 35 0 - 1943 35 0 - 1913 35 0 - 1911 35 0 - 1905 35 0 - 1891 35 30 - 1880 35 0 - 1867 35 0 5 1978 36 0 - 1939 36 0 - 1876 36 0 - 1875 36 0 - 1857 36 0 Time Series Summary for SUSSEX 1 NW, NJ - Month of Jan Lowest Monthly Minimum Temperature Click column heading to sort ascending, click again to sort descending. 1 1994 -29 4 2 1961 -25 0 3 1912 -24 3 4 1981 -22 0 - 1968 -22 1 6 1984 -21 0 Time Series Summary for HARRISON, NJ - Month of May Monthly Maximum Temperature Click column heading to sort ascending, click again to sort descending. 1 2026 100 9 2 2022 96 0 - 2016 96 0 - 2013 96 0 - 1996 96 4 3 2017 95 0 - 2010 95 2 - 2007 95 0 - 2001 95 0

Rain breaking on on arrival

US National Weather Service State College PA RECORD-SETTING TEMPERATURES TODAY The good news is, we can only go up from here. Much of central & eastern PA could see their coldest high temperatures on record today, May 23rd. Southeast winds, low clouds, and steady rain will keep temperatures 20-25°F BELOW average.

.36 rain so far from this event.

16 straight hours with rain falling. 1.13 from this batch. 2.11” since Wednesday. 48°.

Thanks for that info! We're new to southern Calvert and I garden as a hobby. The soil here scares me - mix of sand and cement. The horrible drought hasn't helped, and this event has been very paltry so far. Hoping for better luck later today and tonight, but I'm starting to think we end up real short down here.

That sucks. Hopefully you score today. At 6AM. 1.49” for the day and 2.25” for the event.

Days of drizzle haven't done anything for the drought but it has ruined the weekend for lots of fokes. Congrats PA and northern Md on the drought buster. It's been raining for days nonstop up there. Impressive.

2.56" so far 3+ seems reasonable although it looks to be pretty spotty for awhile this morning...currently dry with lots of happy frogs outside

Pretty epic sunrise right now..

2.2” since 5/20/26, hoping for 3-3.5” total by the end of the holiday weekend.

Looks like steady rain Saturday into Sunday morning with showers after that and then more steady rain Monday.

Correct, but it highly depends on the soil characteristics. The measurement here is Volumetric Water Content (WVC). Soil is made out of Soil, Air, and Water. The balance of which changes with precipitation and temperature. The soil fraction remains constant, usually between 50 and 60%. It is soil after all. The rest is either microscopic air pockets or water. The air pockets are just void spaces which water could occupy. When there are no air pockets left. It’s just soil and water which of course is called Mud. A VWC of .4 means it’s 40% water, which means that there likely isn’t much air left. This indicates that the soil can’t take much more water, and will start to run off into streams. The VWC in which that happens varies. Sand for example saturates as low as .2 while Clay can go to .5 or even slightly higher. It just depends on the soil present. We’re gathering data to try to estimate/ establish the thresholds not only each location but also each depth. In the future we hope to have some sort of parameter that goes from 0-100, so there isn’t the VWC guesswork of saturation.

Yeah, the fact that no monthly record low was set in the post-Pinatubo years (1992-1996) makes me believe it's never going to happen again. Global temperatures have jumped so much in the last 30 years.

49 degrees and running the heat on Memorial Day weekend after it was nearly 100 degrees four days ago- my brain can’t grasp this bimodal spring

Good steady soaking now 0,70”

Yeah nam drops like 3-6"+

58.3 for high and looks like a lull incoming

yep they dont talk about how cold it is and hype it up as much they do when its 95 in may lol