But that's typically how we do break a dry spell. Last year we had that storm just before Thanksgiving after getting little no rain for like 40 days and then it turned wetter through December
I can't really think of many storms in the final week of March while early April has produced a few. Very small sample size though. 1982 and 2003 probably skewing the results
We get noise from takeoffs from ewr but I'm so used to it I don't notice. Occasionally Lufthansa's 747 (the only remaining 747 into ewr) will fly overhead on its descent