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2 hours ago, dmcginvt said:

I feel like we cant buy rain here in Waterbury Center every thing goes around us.  This is what drought feels like.  With every storm I watch the radar and everyone around me get rain.  But it's all lies because of the radar shadows.  Even btv has similar numbers to me.  I show 1.37 for the month, most real reporting stations dont show much more.  NWS need to come up with a better method for radar in the mountains.  Yes I might be influenced by ten bends right now.  NEED more Water!!!

There are a lot of cocorahs stations between 1-2" for AUG. Like you said probably just radar hallucinations and BTV radar beam. Today will put a few stations with higher end totals for AUG, prob more SVT and CVT. 

35 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

How am I supposed to tweak it in real time? I’m not following. Is it trial and error?

Not in real time, I had to manually turn the little screws/bolts a turn or so. Trial and error like you said, but get a stratus so you can compare rain events.

I would check with dendrite first before you do anything..lol.

Basically below:

• Each counterclockwise movement of the stops by one flat of the hexagon raises the stop and hence increases the rainfall recorded by the gauge by approximately 1% (per flat). So one complete revolution of the stop would cause roughly a 6% increase in recorded rainfall. (Raising the stop – ie a movement in the +ve counterclockwise direction – decreases the weight of rain needed to cause a tip of the buckets and hence a given rainfall amount generates more bucket tips and thus a higher rainfall reading);
• Each of the two stops must be adjusted by an equal amount (and obviously in the same direction);

6 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

My tipper in heavy rain is sometimes 30% less than regular gauge. They say to tweak it, but that seems tough to do?

Its really not. At least with mine which is an older model.. My Davis had 3.21" today and stratus 3.23".

Some slow movers out this way, just sitting and dumping.  2.71" and pretty much a whiteout still.

2 hours ago, backedgeapproaching said:

Also had zero clue there was any chance of storms today, then a deluge opened up while my kids were at the Manchester Rec Pool. 

Looks like .62" at home. 

1.14" 

7 minutes ago, DavisStraight said:

I'm waiting on $3,250 from Masssave for my new heating/cooling system. They said up to 16 weeks, been only 1 so far so I have a wait.

Nice, that will be a sweet surprise when you get that in the mail, you will probably forget about it by the time you get it.

Mine was pretty quick, want to say 3 weeks maybe?  Probably quicker and easier in a smaller state.

Also had zero clue there was any chance of storms today, then a deluge opened up while my kids were at the Manchester Rec Pool. 

Looks like .62" at home. 

Just got back my $400 rebate check from Efficiency Vermont for the Midea ACs I bought last year.

Have to give props to @mreaves for making a post about it couple months ago.  I didn't even know it was thing until I saw that post!

Time for another Tree House run..ha.

2 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

I've just focused on the plants. Let the lawn go. Hydrangeas were great this year!

I was watering my plants a ton in June. I don't ever water my grass, too much time and effort and well is too shallow anyway.

July and Aug have been pretty decent precip wise, so kept green for the most part the past couple months.  

2 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said:

He must be. Most of the ones around here in town look like this 

I've seen you post those in the other thread, would you just water the damn things Kevin...lol

3 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

Sad. 
 

 

Hydrangeas look pretty healthy which is kind of surprising unless you are watering them.

1 hour ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

Repairs…for a better looking lawn come spring?

If you are able to water consistently, you can really start now honestly.  If you are just going to rely on good old ma' nature, then maybe wait and pray for fall rains. 

AUG nights in NNE...

AUG nights in NNE...

2 hours ago, mreaves said:

And I thought I was the only one who felt like that. 

Lol. The curved back ones are the only ones remotely comfortable.

I think @powderfreakhas mentioned this in the past for Stowe, but August is just crazy busy here.  Every night you need call ahead or reservations for most restaurants.  In July, almost never need that during weekdays. 

Maybe that is just the same every where in New England, AUG is peak vaca time I guess. 

Nice comfy 51.8F this morning for the low. 

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

I get a lot of hummingbird moths on my petunias in the early evening. Cool little creature.

My wife and I noticed a weird looking creature on the petunias the past week or two, no idea what it was, but now I do after a Google search. Defintley interesting.

Turned into a sneaky somewhat wet July.

6.66".   Cocorahs 30 year prism average says 4.84" for here. 

Nothing severe by any means, but these dews let out some torrential downpours and put down a quick 1.12" as they rolled through SVT. 

Nice evening with some stratus hanging around the Ridgeline as everything clears through. 

Nice drink...

3 minutes ago, gravitylover said:

I won't water the yards, I hesitate to call what I have lawns. I went and added it again and it was 2.3 (including today's .06) since 6/10. Of that only 2 events were over .5 and most were under .1. Those small events are as close to useless as it gets when the soil is duff 6-8" down and it doesn't get past the trees either so effectively I've had 1.6" that mattered. 

Yep, those .1-.3" events are pretty much useless when the soil is this dry. Honestly need a 1-3", but not in a 30 min Tstorm. 

I had mentioned in my other post, I was kind of shocked that following a 1" rain the soil dried out so quickly. 

5 minutes ago, IrishRob17 said:

Good to see you over here.  I've watered the lawn in the past years when it started to brown out but haven't done it at all this season, mainly because I don't have any big party's coming up, no point in starting now!

Yea, it was too much for me too.  I was doing it for a while, then just gave up the lawn watering and just do veggie and perennial gardens.  My low output well can't hold up anyway to watering the lawn as much as it would need it.  

6 hours ago, IrishRob17 said:

It’s been three weeks since I mowed and aside from weed whacking some taller weeds in one spot last week there’s still no need to mow.  I don’t recall ever going over three weeks with the grass this burned out and essentially not growing like this in the summer before. 

This is easily the most I have watered lawn and garden here in SVT since moving here in 2014, also the brownest I have seen the lawn and that is with some rain here and there.

I think a big part of the brown lawns and dry gardens has been the very low RH and DPs for most of the summer.  The evapotranspiration I'm sure has been off the charts when you combine very low RH, sun and wind. The top 4-6" of soil has been getting sucked dry very quickly. Before this recent stretch every day seemed to be a Chamber day with sun and low dews.  The other week I had 1" of rain and was watering again in 2 days. Even 1" of rain really did nothing to my grass, just kept it from getting browner really.   I think many of our summers the past 15 years have been so humid, that moisture was retained in the soil much more so after a rain event.  

As was mentioned also, soil composition plays a big part too.  Obviously it has been dry for a big part of the region as well as per the map posted.

No wind to speak of, but couple hours of constant TL and tropical esque downpours early this AM.

1.71" in Stratus and .39"in Davis--something aint right..lol.

1 hour ago, mreaves said:

Beat the heat with a trip to the NEK today. Swimming in Willoughby followed by pizza at Parker Pie. 

Want to try to get up there sometime, just for the optics, kind of mini fjord vibe.