ForestHillWx

Pounded for a while here. Very heavy rain, frequent lightening and thunder. 

Off and on sprinkles; 55. Got a decent walk in the woods with the kids. Peak color for NJ. 

Banter, but personally, as an avid winter fan, I am hopeful for Mother Nature to delay the onset of cold for as long as possible.
 

Keep people outside, keep heating costs down as long as we can. Snow/cold will come at some point, along with all other problems. 

40 here; looks like temp inversion in the lower elevations. Wunderground showing mid-30s. 

45 now. Progged low of 43; might hit the upper 30s. Crystal clear out, no wind, good night to get the temps to drop. 

46. Beautiful morning. 

First line had decent winds. Lost power due to it. 

43. 

45; crisp start. Colors slowly starting out this way. 

47( windows are wide open. 

Tickled the upper 40s this morning. At 52 now. 

53 currently. Well over 1.5” yesterday. Not a cloud in the sky at the moment. 

5 hours ago, nycwinter said:

dewpoint is higher then it was in the city yesterday.. does not feel refreshing to me,,

I live 45 miles west of the city; my ID is deceiving. I lived on Forest Hill road growing up. Maybe I should update. 

53 currently, refreshing morning.

Constant lightening. Heavy rain. 

10 hours ago, LongBeachSurfFreak said:

September is the new august and October the new September. It’s pretty hard to cool down early with the lack of sea ice slowing arctic cooling. 

Wouldn’t open water act as a more efficient heat sink? I believe ice can act as an insulator to a degree. 

80s yes; 90s doubtful outside the warm spot. The averages are in the 70s for temps out this way in western Jersey. 
 

Decent lightening and boomers now. Heavy rains to my west, just barely missing it at the moment. 

9 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

I think the colorful birds I like to photograph spread this stuff around

Ragweed pollen is distributed by wind primarily. 

56 currently. Perfect morning. 

The damage in north jersey is major, likely catastrophic once the rivers crest and the clean up bills are totaled. Sad to see the loss of life out of NYC. 

Just a tremendous amount of rain in an already saturated environment in the most densely populated metro region in the US with storm/sewers systems from the 1800s in some places. Recipe for destruction. Too bad the Garden State no longer has as many farms it was once known for. 
 

9 minutes ago, riverrat said:

I'm right around the corner from two bridges, been here over 30 years,  this won't crest until saturday or sunday

Be careful. This has major disaster potential, maybe unparelled in recent memory. 

1 minute ago, RU848789 said:

Latest Raritan flooding forecast is several feet less than it was for Floyd, which had record flooding on the Raritan. Will still be major flooding, though according to the graphic, assuming that graphic is correct.  

But look at the current obs, compared to forecast. The trajectory could easily rival Floyd. I don’t wish that on anyone. 

4 minutes ago, Nibor said:

The river flooding is going to have to be near historic, right?

I think NJwx85 makes the best point; the Passaic will back the tributary rivers up; exacerbating the problem. 

That river meets the Whippany and Rockaway rivers before the Pompton. It’s a tremendous volume of water that drains a large part of northern NJ. And that’s just the Passaic. The Raritan river watershed will be worse in my opinion based on the numbers so far. Downtown Bound Brook is going to be annihilated. 

The Passaic is going to destroy little falls/totawa/etc.