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Our Lab mix, a rescue from TX who arrived on Feb 4, 2017, turned 10 yesterday. Her build, toe webs, inner hair, form says nearly all yellow Lab, but the DNA results had about 1/8 Lab plus a number of quite different breeds, so I wouldn't put a lot of weight on the test. "Retriever" didn't come with this super-sweet critter, and she doesn't like the water. (Our black Lab of 2003-16 would be in the water, any time, any temp, any conditions.) When our current friend first arrived, she had a habit of needing outside time about 3 AM, which could be a chore in Feb/Mar, but quickly changed for the better. She was somewhat tolerant of thunder until March 26, 2021, when a bolt destroyed a large fir 55 yards from the house. Now she's terrified by the least rumble. (That strike also wrecked the underground connection between our 13kw generator and its dedicated panel, making it no longer "on demand". It also took out a wire between the DirecTV dish and our set.)

That's the difference between the forest at Central Park and all the pavement at EWR. For the period 2000 to now, NYC has recorded 6 triple-digit days but only 3 that were 101+. EWR has 34 triples peaking at 108 and with 21 days 101+.

Days with thunder have been gradually declining here in recent years. The running 10-year avg was 16.1 after 2017, down to 12.7 after last year. And 2024 was a good year with 16, best since 2017 and adding 0.3 to the avg. Thru June 30 we're 4 days behind last year (2 vs. 6), and nothing yet in July.

It's amazing this summer how easily 70+ dews can leave our area with little/no precip to show for the CFs.

All true. but . . . My impressions came from the PoP being 70%, forecast precip .10-.25 and .25-.50 depending on location plus each amount included "more in thunderstorms". Only 5 of the 102 cocorahs reports had more than 0.41" while the median report was 0.11".

AFDs will not infrequently add qualifiers like "heavy" or even "torrential" (have seen both from GYX). Also, crying "wolf!" too often can lead to complacency. GYX/CAR appropriately had both CWAs entirely in SVR-watches. There were several warned storms and a lot of fierce-looking radar. Only a handful if sites reported 1"", none over 1.5", and local cocorahs reports here were more like 0.12". The ingredients were there, the watches posted, but the system underperformed.

Not quite 50 but close enough - 7/31/76 was the date of the Big Thompson River (CO) flash flood that took 144 lives plus a handful of others never found. One hopes that disaster remains at the top (maybe "worst" more appropriate).

Lots of sites in the Northeast had their coldest August morning during the last few days of that month in 1965. Also, MWN had a couple inches of snow.

Mild TS finishing here, no strikes within ~4 miles, mostly light RA. Some 1" hail reported in N. Aroostook.

Snow season started great, with 8" paste T-Day night. The 9.3" fell on 12/4-5, bring the pack to 15", tops here for the date. Little did I know that the best was behind; that 4-5 event was the season's biggest and the remainder was mostly spent escaping from serious snowfalls. After the nice 6.3" fluff on 12/24, we had only one event greater than 4". No other winter here can claim that factiod.

We're already in trouble. But not because of a carpet of oak germinants - 99.9% will die due to insufficient sunlight.

Mature trees produce 100k's of seed in a good year. Only takes one making it into the main crown canopy to sustain the species.

About +1.35 here. We were +1.6 by 6/6 and the final 24 days were almost exactly average despite last week having days of +13, +12 and -13. Whipsawn

In a few hours this month will be only the third June out of 28 to have zero thunder - others were in 2007 and 2014. Also, this will be our only year in which the first half failed to produce a single calendar day with 1"+ precip. The year of small storms.

As long as the temps aren't heat-stroke threats. 59 years ago the 4th was a Monday and the 3-day period below shows the NYC-area highs: NYC: 100, 103, 98 EWR: 102, 105, 100 LGA: 101, 107, 99 Dews were about 70 so no TD records, just head-cracking heat.