JerseyWx

Pulled the pool cover off and got rained on at least 4 times minimum.  Sucky day with unpredictable pop up storms.

Had some heavy downpours that amounted to 0.40" here.

Approaching 4.50" here.  Just an insane day.  There were at least half a dozen bursts of heavy downpours throughout the day, but between 4:15 and 5ish we just got absolutely hammered.  Definitely up there with some of the heaviest rain I've seen.

Still a ton of moisture headed up this way...kind of hoping the next few days are misses IMBY because the local flooding will just get worse.

Already .50" since midnight.  Have a pretty good batch overhead currently.

Weird being socked in with fog this time of the year.  Can barely see 50 yards down the block.  

.25" of rain today.

22 minutes ago, nycwinter said:

days are getting shorter now today felt like a mid october day why cant we just skip summer and enjoy this taste of fall..

Yeah, shorter by seconds lmao..and that has nothing to do with anything.  Our warmest and coldest averages always come after the solstice anyway.

We'll have to dig this part of the thread up when it's in the 90's with dews in the 70's.

It's literally the summer solstice lol.

Little under a half inch here today.  With rain Monday, Wednesday, and today, I'm at about 1.5" total for the week, which should really help things out.

That's a heck of a line in South Jersey, but I'll take this big blob coming over me too.

Only about 0.40" here but there were a couple bouts of really heavy downpours.  Combined with Monday and possibly later in the week it should help a lot.

Just about 0.50" total.  I think this was very beneficial rain in that we didn't have any torrential downpours at any given time (at least here), but rather a nice steady rain that could soak in better.

Hoping we can get more rain Wednesday and maybe even Friday.  In between those chances, Tuesday, Thursday, and the weekend are looking really nice.

3 hours ago, TWCCraig said:

Maybe you guys need some better insulation! I had the window open last night, coldest it got was 64 inside.

Hoping these clouds break up soon

Yeah our's were cracked and it got to 66.

2 hours ago, Stormlover74 said:

Down to 63. Time to break out the hoodie

Same, but with the cool breeze it wasn't warm enough.  I ended up having to take my down jacket back out.

27 minutes ago, Stormlover74 said:

This has been a remarkably average month of May temp wise. A little bit of heat,  a few cool days but mostly sunny dry seasonable weather. Usually we end up with quite a few raw damp days but only a couple this year 

While we need the rain, this weather has been incredible.  Not sure how anyone can't like it.  Beautiful dry days that aren't humid.

2 hours ago, BxEngine said:

we had one in the summer in the early 2000s from fires in canada too. Just now it was strong enough that it smelled like the neighbors house was on fire.

I can't remember if it was 2020 or 2021 but it was during the middle of one of our hot and humid periods of summer that we had some pretty thick smoke here too.  It was already HHH kind of weather, then the smoke made it worse.

16 minutes ago, WestBabylonWeather said:

Thick haze between clouds today. Smoke? 

Yes, very hazy.

13 hours ago, Brian5671 said:

another 2 weeks or so and the worst of the tree pollen is done...

It has been very bad this year.  It started early so I thought it would end earlier too.  

7 minutes ago, Wxoutlooksblog said:

The timing is uncertain but you're always promoting warmth. That's awfully nice of you. But the models are mixed as to whether there'll be much if any. It's predominantly slightly below normal temperatures to slightly above normal temperatures and there's no sustained or big-time warm-ups or heat on these maps. Whenever there is the highly energized storm track to cut it off.  Below is an example: 

WX/PT

But at least if we stay around average to slightly above that means mid-60's to lower 70's, which is great.  The last few days that have been stuck in the low 50's are well below normal, and after tomorrow should hopefully be done for good.  I agree no "big" heat signal coming up, but I think most of us are just looking for some nice sunny spring days anyway.

2 hours ago, MJO812 said:

It's great

Once this spinning pinwheel of crap gets out of the way we will be back to May weather.  We had better days in March.

With the rain gradually ending, my two day total is sitting right around the 4.50" mark.  Definitely didn't expect that, and I'm really impressed with some of the 6"+ totals that have been reported.

Looks like a grey and cool week ahead, but I think starting Saturday we enter a much nicer and warmer period.

10 hours ago, Juliancolton said:

Summerlike temps perfectly coinciding with peak flowering bulbs and trees has really been an experience. Almost makes a person reconsider their disdain for spring as a concept.

This has been an early start to spring with the warmth.  A lot of stuff blooming and starting to turn green.  We get a cool down now but next week looks to warm up again (not like this, but more seasonable).

I do have to say though, the heat the last two days has really thrown my brain a curve.  It's weird seeing spring blooms with 90 degree temps like you alluded to.

Did the final tally today, ended up with exactly 15 inches on the season.  Believe it or not, that's not far off from the last few years IMBY, with 20-21 being the obvious exception because of that crazy February stretch.  19-20 was worse off, and only saw 13 inches, none of which fell in February or March.  Last year had slightly more at 21 inches, but it should be noted that January was a lot colder and therefore we had a lasting snowpack. @rgwp96 @ForestHillWx

Looking forward to a gradual transition to spring now with the increasing average temps and longer days.

6 hours ago, jm1220 said:

I hope we can avoid the back door front parade this year. The utter fail Winter 19-20 featured snow on Cinco de Mayo. If we can get stretches of days in the mid 60s and sunny-perfect. 

Same, I guess we'll see if the delayed spring trend continues.

2 hours ago, MJO812 said:

Boring times ahead

 

Winter is over

Of course.  Spring starts in a few days.  Gonna be 2 months of rain and dreary now.

Snowed pretty good all day here, just took awhile to add up.  Pavement stayed bare for the most part, except certain areas.  Mostly just limited to grass, deck, patio tables, etc.  Measured roughly 3.2" or so.  The wind was relentless.

I guess it was a very "wintry feeling" day, and probably the last for most of us until next year.