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Nice pics. I didn't have any trees come down here. A lot of 40 to 50mph gusts here. Nice storm. I got 0.40" from the downpour with the storm, and now adding a little more with some moderate rain. Much-needed rain. With the rain coming on Saturday, I'm glad I'll finally be able to take a break from watering the vegetable garden for awhile.

Pouring and the gusty winds continue. A little thunder. Not severe but a good strong t-storm.

Getting some gusts over 40mph here before the heavy rain starts.

I'm excited that the storms in Somerset County are on track to hit here shortly.

93 here right now. Really hoping for a heavy downpour today to help out this parched ground. I've been watering the vegetable garden every day during this heat, but I'm not watering today in hopes that we get some rain. If the t-storms miss here this evening, we should at least see some steady light rain tomorrow morning.

And it continues to appear that most of that rain will be Saturday and Saturday night into Sunday morning. The models still move the rain out for Sunday afternoon. Obviously it won't be beautiful with cloudy/cool weather, but there is hope that it will be dry for cookouts Sunday afternoon and evening.

It hit 98 here. Newark hit 99, which tied the all time May high temp record.

95 here right now.

And Central Park got up to 88 today, which is a degree higher than it got yesterday. So much for today being the cooler day due to the backdoor front.

The backdoor cold front cooldown idea for today was a complete fail. Probably 98 or 99 for tomorrow, but yeah hitting 100 wouldn't be a surprise.

Well 12z GFS shows what I was talking about. A big soaking Saturday into Saturday night to help with the drought, but it gets it out of the way for Sunday and would be fine for Sunday afternoon cookouts. Hopefully it'll work out that way.

I'm probably gonna hit 94 or 95 today which is a few degrees hotter than yesterday. Gonna have to go pretty far east for that advertised cooldown today with the backdoor front.

We desperately need the rain but I'd hate to see most of the holiday weekend ruined. I'm hoping for 2 out of the 3 days being not too bad. It's possible that Saturday ends up being the very rainy day with improvement for Sunday and Monday. It would still be cloudy and cool but hopefully dry enough for cooking outside. I wouldn't mind a soaking on Saturday but not too bad for Sunday and Monday, which some model runs have been showing. But of course there's still the risk of 2 out the 3 days being rainy -- a long way to go to figure it out. Anyway this is rough having this type of heat right now with it being so dry. The vegetable garden needs a lot of water.

Had a high temp of 91 degrees. It will definitely be a 4 day heat wave here.

I'm thinking my location will hit 97 or 98 on Tuesday.