winterwx21
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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.
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Not nearly as widespread as yesterday though. Yesterday we had lines of storms, unlike the isolated smaller cells today.
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Yeah that cell that popped in Somerset County might clip me and miss you just to the south. It's gonna be very close here -- looks like I'm gonna be on the northern edge of it. Glad this stuff is coming through early instead of later when I have the cookout.
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I can hear the thunder from the cell that's going through central Middlesex County.
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Yeah looks as if there will be isolated activity in northern-central NJ around 2-4pm from those pop ups in northeast PA that you mentioned. I'm not having the cookout until 6pm and I think any activity will be gone by then, but we'll see.
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In June, many people here were talking about how they had never seen lawns burn out so early. It looked terrible with all the brown grass during the severe drought. I understand your point about too much rain, but we want enough to keep things looking green. As a vegetable gardener, it's always frustrating to me when we don't get enough rain during the spring and summer. You can water all you want and that does keep the plants going, but it's not the same as rain water. I always notice in the spring that the plants in the vegetable garden have a big growth spurt after a good rainfall. That doesn't happen from just watering with the hose during dry periods. As I mentioned, I lost some of the first tomatoes to sunscald in early July due to the combination of extreme heat and extremely dry conditions. Thankfully things turned around over the last month with plenty of rainfall. The vegetable garden is doing great now. Obviously you and I will never agree on this subject, lol.
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HRRR has nothing, but we know that's a wildly inconsistent model. It'll be interesting to see if there's some widely scattered activity later.
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Interesting that they have the yellow this far east, because the models are showing very little activity for New Jersey today. Unlike yesterday when it was widespread, anything today would be very isolated. I'm having a cookout today and hoping it stays dry. I've loved all the storms in recent weeks, but we've had enough and can use a drying out period.
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Yeah I was outside running, and had just enough time to complete the run. It got bad out there about 5 minutes after I got back to the house. When I went out to run I figured we'd get hit closer to 6pm, but as you said a new line formed almost on top of us while the line that was going to hit us later fell apart. Man the summer storms in our area are becoming more and more intense.
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Wow, INSANE storm. The sound of hail pounding against the house was something else. Some of the hail was dime sized. I ran outside to get some to put in the freezer. We got 1 inch of rain in a very short period of time. A bunch of very close lightning strikes. 60 to 70 mph wind gusts which I'm sure caused quite a bit of damage. When I was outside I could hear lots of sirens all around. We had a couple power hits here but both times the power came back on very quickly. Thankful to have power. My internet was out for awhile which is why it took me this long to respond to you. Even now it's very slow. I'm glad to hear that you have power. That was one heck of a storm.
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That very brief but intense downpour dropped a quick 0.15" here.
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Yeah tiny cell popped up almost on top of me. Came down in buckets for a few minutes and a couple close lightning strikes.
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I'm watching the lightning from that storm that's missing us to the northwest.
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Heaviest missed a few miles to the east like has happened several times recently. I got 0.17" from that downpour.
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Decent downpour here right now.
