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5 hours ago, bluewave said:

I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that the storm came further north with the SE Ridge on steroids.

 

I really can not understand the glibness and stupidity of tweets like this. This is alarming, no cause for celebration/unwinding. your city's going to be underwater in the not so distant future dude

Clouds are back at JFK and hoping for some more rain tonight

27 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

el busto.    Western edge of rain is much further west than modeled.

I'm giddy 

9 minutes ago, Snow88 said:

Boring weather continues

38 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

Euro keeps the bigger winds and rain central LI/Bridgeport, CT and on east.     About an inch of rain from that point increasing as one heads east.  Not much rain in NYC maybe a quarter to half inch.  Close to nothing far NW burbs...  Best rains/winds in SE NE.   Starts to wind down dawn Friday as the system weakens and kicks east.  Run is further east than the 0z Euro last night

A quarter to half inch would still be really appreciated here

4 hours ago, bluewave said:

This was the driest September on record for Islip on Long Island. Our entire area was added to abnormally on the last few drought monitor updates. It was the the northeast extension of the flash drought which enveloped the East over the last month. Pockets of extreme drought developed over the Southeast this week. The drought coupled with the  warming trend allowed for so many October all-time record highs across the East this week. 

It was mostly a surface layer event around here affecting the vegetation and soil moisture. Luckily, we have not experienced sustained more extreme drought conditions here since the mid 1990’s into early 2000’s. Those were more serious and dropped the water supply levels to the point were usage restrictions were necessary. 
 

 

My concerns about the flash drought- and I'm near JFK- were in regards to vegetation.  for everyone dismissing that, it's really important, too. Luckily most young trees seemed to make it through this one, and more rain this week is extremely  welcome too. Just because it didn't affect the water supply doesn't mean it was/is something to shake off- I'm still pretty concerned about the tree canopy.

15 minutes ago, Rtd208 said:

The sky.

Who knew my first post could lead to such enlightenment 

Long time lurker here but the drought made me come out of the woodwork. JFK just had its first accumulating rain in nearly a month. Where is the rest of the precipitation for the next 36 hours coming from?