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The usual. Congrats eastern PA/NJ.

Good watch for Os fans. Not that we need a dose of reality, but this is good stuff, if not depressing.

I need a slow moving tropical depression. Just over 7" of rain here the last 4.5 months.

I think I'm gonna go with it.

Extreme drought continues here. Updated yesterday. Areas just to my south in the same category have had 3" more than me in the past week, so this seems to be lagging. My area might actually be Exceptional, or those areas should be reduced to Severe.

Funny. Also contributing is that they apparently have been serving lettuce tainted by the parasite that is causing long term explosive watery diarrhea. Lovely.

I monitor my dad's solar array and this is exactly the case.

Yep. My yard is as bad as yours since the beginning of March. I pay no attention to the predictions of an inch or more from NWS/WPC a couple days out, because it is not going to verify. At some point the Nino coupling to the atmosphere will take over and this awful dry pattern will shift- but not likely for another month or so.

Yeah there was that, but also some drier air moving from NE to SW. That dry line triggered the training storms over Jersey. The cell that developed and moved southeastward over your area could have been related to that, but weaker and on a a smaller scale.

The CanSIPS advertised h5 pattern for latter part of winter certainly implies cold enough at times. Love the look out west with the Aleutian low placement and the amped EPO ridge. Has the TPV in a favorable spot and suggests a -NAO.

Yeah that storm popped right over the bay. Did you see that training line of storms that moved across central/southern NJ? Some 4" amounts in that area.

Latest CFS runs still going Giga for late winter. Typically when we have the highest probability of a major east coast winter storm during a Nino.

Latest from Mount Holly on the smoke- Latest HRRR/RAP smoke guidance continues to depict that a slug of dense near surface smoke from the wildfires originating over western Ontario will spread into the region tonight. Skies will likely be quite hazy with visibilities projected to fall between 1 to 3 miles overnight, before improving some on Friday. With more of a northerly surface flow expected overnight and into early Friday, this may suppress the worst of the smoke south of our area by mid-day. However, as flow shifts to more southerly by Friday night, guidance is hinting that surface smoke may return into the weekend.

Not as hot as it could have been, but dewpoints are hideous. High of 93. Currently 92 with a DP of 78

It certainly is beautiful there. But yeah, hard to not cheer for Messi.