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.07" today. Major rain producing cell vanished directly overhead.

Explains everything!

High of 90 today. No measurable rain today but we did have a 10 sec burst of rain.

I think you're seeing a very real mesoscale pattern that's been repeating this summer for the LV happening again. The Pennsylvania Turnpike has almost acted like a dividing line on many convective days. Storm complexes have repeatedly tracked from southwest to northeast across Lancaster, Chester, southern Berks, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties, while much of the Lehigh Valley has ended up on the northern edge of the heavier precipitation shield. That's left areas south of the Turnpike with repeated 1–3 inch downpours while parts of the Lehigh Valley have watched storms either weaken or split apart before arriving. From a meteorological standpoint, several things can contribute: Storms have been following a persistent southwest-to-northeast steering flow. The heaviest instability has often remained just south of the Lehigh Valley. Outflow boundaries from earlier storms have repeatedly focused new thunderstorm development farther south. Small shifts of only 20–40 miles in the storm track can mean one county receives 3 inches while the next gets almost nothing. My observation about "after a good agricultural saving rain last week—zilch the last three days" is exactly how this pattern behaves. One widespread soaking rain doesn't necessarily end the drought problem if subsequent thunderstorms keep missing the area. Lehigh County still has a significant portion of the population affected by drought or abnormally dry conditions despite recent rainfall. If this continues another week or two, you'll likely start seeing: corn and soybean stress on lighter soils, reduced stream base flows, increased irrigation demand, and a growing contrast between southern Pennsylvania and the Lehigh Valley in rainfall totals. Sometimes it feels like the "7–10 split" has become almost a standing feature this summer, even though it's really the repeated positioning of storm tracks rather than a fixed weather boundary. It only takes a slight shift in the upper-level flow for the Lehigh Valley to suddenly become the target instead of Lancaster and Philadelphia. I hope this happens soon.

I always find it amusing when it rains with the sun shining, lol Had that a couple hours ago here. Now this is ACTUAL liquid sunshine...not the psychological kind people try to label regular cloudy rain (end pet peeve rant)

Floodgates opened in the warrenton area today. The lightning was extreme! Pretty much nonstop!

Three at bats this evening. Two strikeouts and a pop up to the catcher in foul territory.

Storm popping to the north over Somers . Another Jack area this summer

0.97” in Lancaster. .

You definitely partake! Absolutely no other explanation.

At high noon, not high at noon. Christ, you can’t even read!

Yup

Lot's of rain across WNC this evening. Getting rain currently and got hammered earlier with a big storm. Got 1.86 inches in the bucket.

Look at ALB and W CT getting crushed again now. Literally the same spots all summer . We’ve had summers like that here . Storm patterns absolutely establish an early season pattern and hit the same areas multiple times . Fascinating phenomenon . There’s got to be some studies on that out there

Surprisingly weak correlations for Winter 27-28, if anyone is wondering. The El Nino will be highest on record by 15-20% so it's a good data point. I'm actually surprised that it doesn't reverse to a la nina pattern, based on history.

Ready for some winter outbreaks.

None . We RFK

Just how many prescriptions do you take daily? They’re slowly killing my 83yo father.

Round two incoming in silver spring. Probably got a half inch or even more around 530pm. Floodgates open

TF does weed have to do with anything? You Fucked Up.

92 by me today.

Elementary school directly across the street from the farmhouse puts a minor dampener on that crop. Grandfather’s choice of selling that piece of property to the town for shit money haunts me to the day.

No I would not run high at noon. Never touched weed