winterwx21
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It was cloudy again here last night. We had that nice airmass come in on Wednesday with sunny skies and low humidity, yet we couldn't get one clear night for the meteor shower. Terrible luck. Complete bust here this year for the Perseids. Hopefully we'll have much better luck for the Geminids in December. Of course there are a few smaller meteor showers before then.
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Thanks for posting a recap! I'm glad you had good luck seeing some nice meteors out there in PA. Here it was a complete bust with cloudy skies all throughout the overnight hours. The peak was last night, but as you said there's another chance tonight. There's a pretty good 3 day window -- the night before and night after are usually 60 to 70% of the peak night, so still pretty good. Unfortunately we're expecting a good amount of clouds here tonight, but we'll see. If it's just partly cloudy I'll go out there tonight. It was pretty cloudy here the night of the 11th into the 12th too, so very bad luck during the 3 day period here. I know the Perseid is the most popular shower of the year because it's during the warm summer, but the Geminid shower in December is actually the best shower of the year -- slightly bigger than the Perseid shower. So I'll deal with being out there in cold weather if we have clear skies, especially after having such bad luck last night.
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Too bad it's cloudy here now. Terrible timing. No use going outside. Hopefully we'll have better luck with the Geminid meteor shower in december.
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Yeah the timing really sucks -- clear skies today but clouds come in tonight. We have a problem with the wildfire smoke right now too, but I see HRRR has it clearing out just in time for the meteor shower tonight. So we'll have to see what happens with the showers/storms for overnight tonight. Hopefully there will be a period or two in which it's just partly cloudy instead of mostly cloudy so we can see some meteors here tonight. I wish you good luck in seeing some tonight. It is frustrating that we have the clouds to deal with tonight because the same thing happened on the peak night of the Geminid meteor shower in December, which of course is the other big meteor shower. It's frustrating when we have little to no moon interference for viewing but clouds mess it up. Bad luck with these meteor showers lately.
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And I see on the new update SPC finally expanded the marginal risk north to include all of NJ. Should be some pop up storms for northern NJ later today.
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Euro and GFS have been consistently showing dewpoints falling back to the high 40s and low 50s for Friday into Saturday. Hopefully that will continue to hold and we'll see the nice significant break in the humidity for a couple days.
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I think he left because he was mad about being 5 posted. I was glad to see Liberty finally return last week. He said it was only a temporary return, but I told him that I hope he stays. 5 posts per day is certainly enough to be a strong contributor here. He's still posting so it seems as if he has decided to stay -- hopefully that's the case.
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Only 0.01" here today. I was surprised when they issued the watch for us today. It looks like isolated storms tomorrow afternoon. I would think that SPC should upgrade us to a marginal risk for tomorrow.
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Just a shower here and breezy. I saw a little lightning in the north sky.
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Yeah my area a little west of NYC usually has one of the lower dewpoints in the tri-state. Newark has a dewpoint of only 65 right now too.
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17z run of the HRRR hits us pretty good around 7-8pm. We shall see.
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88 with a dewpoint of 65 here right now. At least the humidity isn't terrible today.
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Probably just sprinkles for us from that.
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Dewpoint is down to 67 here right now. Still humid but better than it has been the last several days.
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Here it was just a brief moderate shower. Hopefully that's it for today. Nothing more behind this on radar right now, but will keep an eye on it in case something else pops up.
