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  1. Buffalo Bumble
    Sorry, really late to the party on this…That was in fact an intense but very quick hitting storm here. Wind came out of nowhere and blew furiously for only about 30 seconds. Family was sitting by a window and branches started slamming against it at which point an aunt said “should we head to the basement?” Numerous large branches down in the neighborhood. Lost power for about 2 hours.
  2. Buffalo Bumble
    Couple tropical downpours here already so I’ll stop my whining about how dry it’s been. Long overdue here though. Lake shadow isn’t invincible after all.
  3. Buffalo Bumble
    Let’s see if the Amherst/Snyder rain shield holds up today. So far so good. Radar showing solid batch of rain sliding off to our west and another batch forming to our southeast that will miss. Was hoping for a meaty batch of moderate rain for at least a few hours but might have to settle for pop up quick hitters.
  4. Buffalo Bumble
    Send some this way please. Everything keeps missing. Not official, but don’t think we’ve cracked the 1 inch barrier over the last 60 days. If we have it’s definitely not by much. Anything not watered is crispy brown.
  5. Buffalo Bumble
    It really is quite remarkable. And on the flip side it’s prolific at generating rain on either side from the converging air. On the positive side for us desert dwellers I suppose it won’t be long before all of Lake Erie gets up into the 70’s and the lake shadow fades.
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    Same here. BUF finished June close to 2” below normal rainfall which is a lot when average I think is around 3”. Barely an inch IMBY over the last 2 months. Maybe something falls here in the next few days with the wind out of the N/NW instead of coming out of the SW up the length of the precip crushing lake?
  7. Buffalo Bumble
    Speaking of Portland…sitting at 115 degrees currently. Hard pass on that.
  8. Buffalo Bumble
    If we go with persistence the eastern extent of the rain will be Buffalo Outer Harbor (desertification setting in here from lack of rain...front came through dry yesterday). If we go with the “you’re due” approach BUF will get 10” of rain from Saturday to Monday. I know, solid forecasting metrics here...
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    The SW and to an extent the intermountain west does have the monsoon season coming up to maybe provide some relief. Hopefully it’s a robust one this year. That’s a pretty cool weather phenomenon.
  10. Buffalo Bumble
    Really hope we get something out of this in BUF area. Hardly anything yesterday. Just doesn’t want to rain here.
  11. Buffalo Bumble
    Thanks for checking. Any snow or ice patches left up on the high peaks?
  12. Buffalo Bumble
    If anyone in the BUF area has a reliable outdoor thermometer please do me a favor and check your obs against the NWS. They had that sensor problem last year that was only fixed after we pointed it out. I’m noticing temp obs consistently coming in 3-5+ deg higher than surrounding areas. Case in point, 71 deg ob right now at BUF while NF is 65 and Roch is 62.
  13. Buffalo Bumble
    Just perusing some climo stats and seeing every month at BUF since January has had below normal precipitation. And not by a little...each month .5 inch or more below average. This following a bone dry summer last year. The lake shadow will always reduce precip chances here in summer but the lack of any region wide precip events lately has been quite pronounced.
  14. Buffalo Bumble
    That’s a seriously quick trip to bag 5 high peaks, good luck!!
  15. Buffalo Bumble
    Interesting model verification “experience” here today. Modeling has been showing far WNY on the edge of the mid continent heat dome around this timeframe as the northeast “heat wave” breaks down. Sure enough here we are today in BUF with a quite toasty airmass overhead, mid 80’s now with dews rising and sun bearing down, while Watertown is a drizzly low 70’s. I imagine temps and dews steadily drop as one trucks down the 90 from BUF today. Nice work models.
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    Looks like the front has cleared the north country. DP’s in the mid 50’s around Watertown, still near 70 from Buf to Cuse. Very interesting satellite picture and regional radar showing clouds and storm cells pressing northeast to southwest. Odd to see storms rolling in that direction in NYS.
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    Very interesting micro fluctuations IMBY with this lake breeze. I noticed it slack off a bit a few times and the air took on an entirely different feel...more humid and temp jumped up. Kicked in strongly about an hour ago and air has a “marine” feel with comfortable temp in the mid 70’s. While probably 10 miles away temps are climbing through the 80’s. Pretty “cool” to observe.
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    Incredible. That’s what, about 24 degrees below normal? That would translate to one of those rare 0 degree high temp days in January. It happens, just more shocking some times of year than others.
  19. Buffalo Bumble
    Poor snow growth, 2-4” at BUF from 1.1” liquid equivalent...
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    Mostly ice pellets now here (Chaumont). Sticking to my sweatshirt. One to add to weather folklore I guess... “You think this this Memorial Day weekend is bad, I remember one MD weekend where I had ice pellets piling up on my sweatshirt with a windchill in the 20’s...”.
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    I’m at our cottage in Chaumont (northeast end of Lake Ontario). Pretty sure some mangled flakes were mixed in as precip started about 30 minutes ago. Looks and feels like November, minus greenery.
  22. Buffalo Bumble
    So sad to hear this! Innocence and enthusiasm oozed out of James’ posts. Props to you all in this forum for making it a safe haven for him to express all his thoughts and wild weather hopes.
  23. Buffalo Bumble
    88 at BUF approaching 8pm. Shades of last year starting to appear...
  24. Buffalo Bumble
    How much snow for LEK? I smirked a week or so ago when there were posts about “one last shot at snow”. Get me to June before I consider snow season done. Looks like the high elevations might get snow tomorrow too.
  25. Buffalo Bumble
    Not sure what’s more depressing, 8 hours of daylight and cloudy all day in November or 14.5 hours of daylight and cloudy all day in May. We’ve had some breaks here and there but clouds have been tough to budge lately.
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