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.22 with the morning surprise...heading out west today glad i won't return to dead grass plants.

I believe it. It was such a slow light soaking long duration event that there was virtually no runoff, ground just ate it all up. Grass and shrubbery have to be loving it. I know people didn't love it because of its timing over Memorial Day weekend, but it really was a pretty unique late May weather stretch. It didn't really bother me at all.

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Just had a round of torrential rain that lasted about half hour here in the Valley.

summer for next 2 days..then April/early may returns for a week? Been a brutal stretch for the torch crew

If my math is correct, I’ve cut the drought in half at my location over this past week.

71° now off a min of 48.3°

Big time totals.

All of the wet weather and the Susky is barely flinching in response. Total rise in Marietta looks to be about a foot, and some 10' below flood stage. One of the testaments of how dry it's been over the long haul.

Per Cocorahs reports, Henderson and surrounding counties have been hit with very heavy rains in the aggregate during the 96 hours ending at 7AM today! 5/22-3: 5/23-4: 5/24-5: 5/25-6:

I am hoping the weekend rain mostly stays south at this point

Yeah, the PDO was able to be positive during the 1995-1996 weak La Niña winter. This weak La Niña winter had the ridges and troughs in the same general locations. But notice how the ridges this winter were so much stronger leading to the much warmer CONUS and less snowy outcome than 1995-1996. We can see the ridge extension to the east of a Japan during DJF preventing the PDO from going positive. Plus the more volatile NAO these days didn’t allow the -NAO to persist into the spring like we had back in 1995-1996. So March turned out to be a reversion to the warmer and less snowy 2020s mean.

No it wasn't. It was clear as day that January would be +PNA at several months lead time if you knew what to look for.

Watch the NE Gulf and vicinity for a possible TS next week per some model runs.

first half of june looks dry but comfortable at least

May 26 1929: A tornado rakes Freeborn County and causes 10,000 dollars of damage to farms. For Tuesday, May 26, 2026 1771 - A famous Virginia flood occurred as heavy rains in the mountains brought all rivers in the state to record high levels. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders - 1987) 1917 - A tornado touched down near Louisiana MO about noon and remained on the ground for a distance of 293 miles, finally lifting seven hours and twenty minutes later in eastern Jennings County, IN. The twister cut a swath of destruction two and a half miles wide through Mattoon, IL. There were 101 persons killed in the tornado, including 53 at Mattoon, and 38 at Charleston IL. Damage from the storm totaled 2.5 million dollars. (David Ludlum) 1984 - Thunderstorms during the late evening and early morning hours produced 6 to 13 inches of rain at Tulsa OK in six hours (8.63 inches at the airport). Flooding claimed fourteen lives and caused 90 million dollars property damage. 4600 cars, 743 houses, and 387 apartments were destroyed or severely damage in the flood. (Storm Data) (The Weather Channel) 1987 - Thunderstorms in southwest Iowa spawned five tornadoes and produced up to ten inches of rain. Seven inches of rain at Red Oak forced evacuation of nearly 100 persons from the town. Record flooding took place in southwest Iowa the last twelve days of May as up to 17 inches of rain drenched the area. Total damage to crops and property was estimated at 16 million dollars. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1988 - There was "frost on the roses" in the Upper Ohio Valley and the Central Appalachian Mountain Region. Thirteen cities reported record low temperatures for the date, including Youngstown OH with a reading of 30 degrees. Evening thunderstorms in North Dakota produced wind gusts to 75 mph at Jamestown. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary) 1989 - Thunderstorms in produced large hail in eastern Oklahoma during the pre-dawn hours, and again during the evening and night. Hail two inches in diameter was reported near Prague, and thunderstorm winds gusted to 70 mph near Kenefic. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary) 1990 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather from eastern Colorado to western Arkansas and northeastern Texas. Severe thunderstorms spawned three tornadoes, and there were eighty-eight reports of large hail or damaging winds. Evening thunderstorms over central Oklahoma spawned strong tornadoes east of Hinton and east of Binger, produced hail three inches in diameter at Minco, and produced wind gusts to 85 mph at Blanchard. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)

74 here ... low was 51.

If not friend why friend shaped?

I’ve just been putting the oven on and the ceiling fan on reverse to take the edge off.

When we i stop running pellet stove? (Ran yesterday morning)

Sitting around 4" total in the yard but totals are very uneven down here. About 40 miles to my southeast got a stripe of 4-6" yesterday during a mini-train in just a few hours. Areas to my west prob have less than half of my yard. Lake levels haven't responded yet. A testament to how uneven the distribution has been and also how crazy dry the ground has been. Stream levels have only made it back to normal at best.

Partly sunny today with a chance of some showers tomorrow morning. Today and tomorrow will be our warmest days of the week with temperatures a couple of degrees above normal for late May with highs in the upper 70's. A great stretch of weather begins on Thursday and through the weekend with sunny skies and with temperatures cooling to several degrees below normal by Saturday with highs near 70 degrees.

Partly sunny today with a chance of some showers tomorrow morning. Today and tomorrow will be our warmest days of the week with temperatures a couple of degrees above normal for late May with highs in the upper 70's. A great stretch of weather begins on Thursday and through the weekend with sunny skies and with temperatures cooling to several degrees below normal by Saturday with highs near 70 degrees.

Yeah. It can stop anytime now. Lol

Good Lord! That's the Rainforrest we are used to.