stemwinder

Got .78 overnight.  Badly needed.

On 7/24/2022 at 5:22 AM, Hurricane Agnes said:

I didn't even see any Brood X here last year either - and the last time I believe that brood was out was around a year after one of my sisters had moved into her Montco house.  She had a couple stragglers crawling up her shed near the creek at the bottom of her backyard, and that was the first time I had ever seen a "red-eyed" cicada.

There were stragglers of that Brood emerging I believe, 4 years prior, which would have made them 13 year cicadas.  Maybe that's how the 13 year broods evolved.

Still no summer cicada songs on this super muggy noontime near the D&R Canal.  DP 72, temp near 90.

RIP Rachel Carson - we may need someone to document Silent Summer.  At least the nighttime katydids made it. 

9 hours ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

I'm gonna have to make it point to pop out there in the evening to check for those.  I have been cat sitting the past couple weeks - gave one sister's kitty back last Tuesday and just got my other sister's cat yesterday (and neither can be let out here or manage to dart out an open door or I'll never see them again... lol). So I have limited the outside watering and nature checks to the mornings after they are fed and napping.

Maybe being that this was a Brood X year has something to do with it? At any rate, I miss their noise on these hot days.

Edit:  Oops - my bad - Brood X was last year!  My memory is slipping.  At any rate, next week won't be as hot.  Let's see if the cicadas recover.

54 minutes ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

Hit 96 a few times around 1:30 pm and it's currently sunny and 96 with some scattered small cumulus clouds, and dp is 68.

Edit to add - when I was out this morning watering, I heard NOT a SINGLE cicada whatsoever,  Nada. It's pretty unprecedented in my lifetime at this point. I don't know what happened.  Maybe they got caught in lanternfly sticky traps on trees and couldn't molt, but this is just bizarre.

Same here.  In the early evening, I see newly emerged nymphs crawling around, but no songs in the trees by daytime.  Glad I'm not the only one to notice.

OTOH, I have been hearing Katydids doing their thing.

16 hours ago, stemwinder said:

Got about 0.2 inches.  The big warm drops of Summer.

Another 0.2 inches overnight.

Got about 0.2 inches.  The big warm drops of Summer.

1 hour ago, JTA66 said:

Hearing cicadas this morning.

Gorgeous morning out there, got the windows open with a gentle breeze.

72F/DP 56F

I saw an emerged nymph shell on my outdoors mailbox stand two days ago, but have not heard any.  No doubt that one was an  early tasty meal for some passing bird.

  At least we got about .55 inches of needed rain yesterday morning.  Here in W Windsor near the D & R Canal.

Surprising (to me) passing sunset shower, just enough to wet the deck with big drops.  Someone farther east will get more.  Happy end of June.

Some thunder is of very short duration.  Like cannon shots.  CC or  CG? Not sure.

Was in area north of Ewing NJ today, when a picnic was interrupted by small hail.  Later, a torrential downpour occurred in Ewing itself from the same popup.  No thunder heard.  Was dry up here where I live, in W Windsor/Princeton. 

43 minutes ago, Rtd208 said:

Picked up 0.31" of rain for the day.

Current temp 58

The "Early Morning Rain" gave me abut .7", which was more than predicted.  In West Windsor, NJ.  

7 hours ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

I know NBC10 reports (via KYW) were mentioning the increased hail reports over in Jersey as soon as the line moved over the river. My Wyndmoor Montco sis reported hail but my Upper Darby Delco one said she didn't have any on her street - just rain (she's about 7 miles S/W of me).

We're not even really in the depth of severe season here yet either although there was that EF1 tornado in Bucks County - the new Kansas. :googly:

Thanks, Agnes!  It was quite intense, and lasted for more than a few minutes.  The hail may have been mixed with something else: graupel perhaps - Was glad to drive out of it into nice plain rain en route to New Brunswick.  

22 hours ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

Getting a rain shower here at the moment but so far no hail.  I know I had some pea-sized hail here last year for the first time in years but it seems to have become less common here in the city.

Yesterday, just after 4 PM, I was bombarded by an intense hailstorm.  I was driving north from Princeton NJ, on Route 27.  Noisy banging on my windshield, at least pea sized hail.  Some lightning, but did not hear thunder.  

Got to watch it happen,  rather than having it all happen in the dark.  Only got an inch or so, but glad we got some real snow for March.  Looking forward to 60's real soon.

2 hours ago, Rjay said:

26 with light snow

 

 

 

 

Nice.  To me, it doesn't really count unless it sticks in the streets. 

A tail-end hint of something on a nearby spruce tree.  Nothing else, even on car windshields.

6 minutes ago, terrapin8100 said:

About 1.25" here. I'll take it. Still snowing lightly. 32°

Nice picture.  Down here in W Windsor NJ, it was nice to see flakes fly, but NADA, as far as any snow sticking.  Not even on the trees.  Enjoy your pittance, up there, since it's more than most of us got, I'll warrant.

3 hours ago, wdrag said:

The moderators should collaborate and let me know if they want me to change the thread strategy. If they feel this is not of detrimental value, then they will let me know. Moderators: all yours. 

Sorry to clutter the thread up with another comment, but you are one reason why I read this forum.  At 85, I am still learning.  BTW, to add to the mess, I am waiting for you to start the thread on next weekend's chances. 

Might as well post this here too since Philly is mentioned.

From 1972 until the end of 2003 I was on the West Coast, so don't have a good memory of the great storms I missed, obviously.  The first one I remember since moving back is a nice Miller B(?) in Jan 2005.  But there was a great storm in November 1950, and all we got in Jersey City was rain and no power.  "The Great Appalachian Blizzard".  Other storms behaved similarly, like one I remember in November 1953, where we got an inch of snow before it changed, but Philly got maybe 7".   These storms cut too, although the synoptics may have differed.  All of these storms have meteorological interest, regardless of how much snow they produce.  - As long as I can get to the dentist on Tuesday. 

1 hour ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

Mt. Holly's (post-) 5pm call -

Better all rain or a washout, than a slop fest that freezes.  IMO.

From 1972 until the end of 2003 I was on the West Coast, so don't have a good memory of the great storms I missed, obviously.  The first one I remember since moving back is a nice Miller B(?) in Jan 2005.  But there was a great storm in November 1950, and all we got in Jersey City was rain and no power.  "The Great Appalachian Blizzard".  Other storms behaved similarly, like one I remember in November 1953, where we got an inch of snow before it changed, but Philly got maybe 7".   These storms cut too, although the synoptics may have differed.  All of these storms have meteorological interest, regardless of how much snow they produce.  - As long as I can get to the dentist on Tuesday. 

48 minutes ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

Thank you.  Do know that you are most appreciated here.  I am always supportive of your office.  I was a fed for 32 years before retiring almost 5 years ago and know first hand, about the abuse that feds often get thrown at them. We were, are, and always will be "regular folk" who have a mission of public service.

Thank you. Starting to get more and more creaky nowadays.    I know this is RedSky's fave --> 

Happy Birthday, Alice. From one who doesn't post much but who often gets hit by the Summer fronts at the same time!.  Lurking just to your Northeast.

May you have a long wait before you start creaking like me.   

Latest Mt Holly suggests that Forky may be in the right direction on this storm.

Shows on Wunderground, but not in reality.  A little white stuff would be nice for a change.  I am at Princeton/W Windsor boundary.

Good to see.  Here just across the canal from Princeton, nada, although Wunderground is showing snow. Just a little white stuff would be nice.