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1.86" event total here. Obviously bad timing for the holiday weekend, but I'm glad we got it since we really needed the rain. And at least the rain moved out in time for me to cook on the grill outside late yesterday, but I brought the food inside because it was so cool and nasty out there. Later today will be much nicer for sitting outside since it will warm up into the 70s -- I'm glad we can salvage part of the holiday weekend.

Even for Sunday afternoon it appears that the rain will have moved to the east, something I talked about for days. Cloudy and cool but it should be ok to cook outside tomorrow. And Monday afternoon looks ok -- I don't know what Anthony is looking at if he thinks it's going to rain all day.

Pretty good soaking today -- 0.35" so far here.

53 degrees with steady light rain. Nasty.

I'm glad we're going to get much-needed rain Saturday into Sunday morning. At least Monday doesn't look too bad. We'll have to see how long the rain lingers on Sunday -- some models move it out in time for late day and evening for people that want to cook outside. That's uncertain right now, but of course the one thing that is certain is Saturday is shot.

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.