Itstrainingtime

We typically walk between 3-5 miles, but it was so nice and being a new trail we kept going. Once I get myself rolling down the trail it takes some doing to get me stopped.

Hard to believe just how wet it might be after today. Spent the entire afternoon outdoors and walked 10 miles on a new trail to us. Great day all around. Now to get you some rain!

Well that was interesting...we just had another cell deliver a direct knockout here. Tremendous wind and rain..probably the hardest it's rained a good while here. Bucket is at 1.17" for the day, 1.40" for the weekend. It was all proceeded by a VERY low shelf cloud that looked super ominous.

I've noticed a lot this year in the Catskills and the Adirondacks, I just don't know how relative to normal it's been. But yes...seems like quite a few up there.

Don't get sucked in - you know darn well if there's sun you're going to crack 80. Only way you don't is if it's raining. (which it very well might) No one, male or female, wants to see the trainer nude. No one. I just asked my wife to verify that.

Now that MAG has gotten some decent rain the past few days, you really are the rain anus of PA. Unreal...

Worst part is I thought you were the MOST likely to eclipse .25"

Tim for the trainer to eat a big fat piece of humble pie - what I thought was a miss, ended up not. Once the dark clouds passed and the sun returned, the skies opened up. .12' takes me weekend total to .35".

I got 17 drops from that nice cell. Quarter inch plus fail for me this weekend.

You're doing quite well. If this was snow I'd have just over 2" and most of that would have melted.

2nd area of rain has all but completely died as it moved east - we'll see what happens with the next area out in western PA.

Finished with .22" for the afternoon. On to later...

Light rain here. .13" in the gauge. Hasn't rained anywhere close to moderate and zero wind. Pretty good lightning though.

Yes..sigh, we go from one extreme to another. I welcome the rain but not all of this nonsense.

...and that storm is now TOR warned for Adams.

Getting warmed up for winter!

Line looks to be bowing right towards @Cashtown_Coop

You could say he's not the biggest GFS fan in the world.

Eric Horst just announced his retirement as director Meteorology at MU. He's going to do some weather consulting and expand on his rock climbing business. Our area will miss his local expertise, and no one in here will have to listen to me any longer about him. Wait - he did say that he'll continue to talk weather on Twitter.

NWS tells itstrainingtime to take his .25" of rain and stuff it...

It's become divisive because with every tropical system that impacts the U.S., a bunch of posters from NY will chime in and start making comparisons from that particular system to Sandy. Some people from outside of that area are so sick of hearing about Sandy all the time they've asked if the name "Sandy" can be banned from use on these forums.

It is sort of an interesting "civil war" here on the boards with Sandy. My wife and I spent a week volunteering on Long Island to help with relief efforts. What we saw and experienced is something that I'll never forget. I can understand the emotion and respect given to that storm from the people who actually lived through it. Having said that - my wife also went to Houston to help with relief efforts after Harvey. Can't really compare the two storms, but on a very personal level they were remarkably similar. The personal toll and devastation was very raw, very real at the human level. In both situations, the emotional response from the residents was something special. My wife's team was rebuilding a home in Pearland - people that were obviously complete strangers, but for that family to have an army of volunteers to come in to their home and clean up and rebuild was equally special and emotional for my wife and her team to help as it was for the family whose home they rebuilt. It's sort of a shame that Sandy has become almost divisive. When a storm, any storm, affects YOUR neighborhood and YOUR livelihood, it becomes very personal. Sure, it's easy and "fun" to compare storms and their effects but I wish people would just be respectful and understanding when people share their feelings because to them - it's personal. For those that went through Sandy - Sandy is the benchmark. For those living in Tuscaloosa back in 2011 (my wife also provided relief there) it's personal. For those in Houston who went through Harvey - it's personal. Let's respect that and resist saying that my storm was worse than yours was. It's sort of pointless at that level.

But it will be much worse since the skyscrapers in NYC are taller and therefore will have far more windows blown out.

I'm feeling overly optimistic that @Bubbler86 @Cashtown_Coop @CarlislePaWx @sauss06 @Anduril @canderson @paweather @paweather5 and all of the Lanco peeps are going to get some decent rain in the next 36 hours. I'll define "decent" as > .25". I know a lot of you measure rainfall as I do so we'll see how this goes. @Blizzard of 93 - you're going to jackpot with 2" - just think of what that might translate to in 4 months... 2" of cold rain.

It won't be as bad as Sandy.