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OMG, it is finally raining!!!

93.6⁰/74⁰....its hot The lack of rain is causing the moss growing under the trees to become crispy and peel away from the ground....

Nothing here as usual.....Every storm looks like it hits a brick wall as it passes over the NY state line into Danbury...What gives?

67.8⁰/65 when I got up this morning, could be a lot worse....just shy of 92⁰ for the high yesterday

I just want some rain....I don't need severe, just some downpours please

I love the people who always say that such events always happened before when they were kids and that records were made to be broken. I mean come on, records broken by multiple degrees, multiple days in a row. Only to be broken the following year....

past 30 days just 1.29", hopefully we clean up this winter. Just not the 33 degree kind of cleanup

Dry here, unreal...outside of the first 14 days of July we have been dry here. A whopping 0.04" since August 1st

yup, my entire family had it....nasty cough, runny noses, achiness, fevers in a couple of us, took a couple days to kick, then the coughs lingered for 1-2 weeks. I somehow ended up with Lyme on top of it, so antibiotics on top of it all didn't help. I'm vaccinated, 3 kids are not and neither was my wife at the time (pregnant). Most of us took pcr tests, 5 in total, all came back negative. So what ever it was, was highly infectious as we are really careful with my wife being pregnant.

Despite this being a "casedemic", there has been an awful lot of hospitalizations showing up in Florida along with other states, states that have low rates of vaccinations. There are many that can not to be vaxxed due to their health issues. Recent data is showing that those who are immune compromised may not have had very good antibody development from the original vax and maybe vulnerable, including the elderly. So widespread testing is important to those who couldn't get a vax. It is good to know if there is widespread community covid cases for those who are vulnerable, even if they are vaxed. My wife is pregnant, Covid doesn't mix very well with pregnancy. So, yes I am that vaxxed guy wearing an KN95 mask into Costco, well before the data came out about the vaxxed being contagious, last thing I wanted to do is infect my wife because I didn't want to wear a mask. My wife and future child's health is more important than than whether or not you can see my face while I'm buying toiletpaper. Testing vaccinated people is the reason we found the outbreak in Provincetown and determined that the spread from vaxxed people maybe occuring at a higher rate that expected. Beyond that, there are too many variables to say the vaccine is or isn't working. We are collecting data in real time with the pandemic, anyone who states absolutes are only going to look like fools in the end, this is the problem when science gets mixed up with politics. Too many people claiming they are right and the other person is wrong, weather peeps should know this all too well.....Putting all media aside and just looking at the date right now..... Vaccines are working, efficacy ranges, averages, means...where are we currently? We don't know unless we start testing. Will efficacy change over time? Probably, but we don't know unless we continue to study them in real time. To say, see look at that outbreak, vaccines don't work I'm not getting one is really not helpful to the public. As of this point the vaccines are decreasing risk in all age categories....is my 7 and 3 year old getting a vax? Not unless this mutates into something that starts harming children or if they have some underlying conditions that put them at high risk. People really are getting sick....Hospitalizations are on the rise all over the country even here in CT. The age of those critically ill and hospitalized is dropping, it doesn't seem to be the sickness of just the old and unhealthy at this point. Most in this country have asthma due to environmental issues such as smoke from wildfires every year. To say this whole thing is no big deal for most is just being arrogant. We really should be looking out for each other and figuring out a way to battle the disease as a country...It is sad where we are right now

46.0° for the low, this is July right? If this weather pattern continues, my garden will be toast by early September....sheesh Feels great though, the sun is quite warm on the skin despite the cold air temps

Generally missed again yesterday, 0.15" total... 9.32" for the month 1.11" since the 14th

Quite warm out there, 86⁰/69⁰ atm...smokey, haze beginning to move in now

Yup dry here of late, in that green stripe....what seems to be the only green stripe in CT. Definitely need some rain or watering in the garden regardless of what happened the first 10 days of the month.

51.4⁰ this morning, 3rd morning in a row of temps in the low to mid 50s

52.5⁰ this morning, can't we have this all the time?

I wish they would have been installed sooner, so I could take advantage of the best solar production months. Unfortunately we ended up needing a new roof first.

Just got hooked up today, I fully anticipate clouds and rain until further notice....

Windows open, a/c off, 54.1⁰ for the low....

Looks like a partial solar eclipse out there right now. One would think just a bunch of low clouds until you take a picture with the sun in the shot....

Stein has returned here...0.20" so far here today, missed inches of rain by 5 miles, now everything heavy is to the NW. It probably is alright though, 8.5" in the first 10 days of the month should keep the groundwater levels high for the foreseeable future

kick the kids out of the pool, right before a lighting strike over the house with the sun out and no rain.....loudest crack of thunder in quite some time too

Sort of reminds me of when I was in college and took 4, 3 week courses at the Marine Science Consortium in Wallops Island VA. One of the courses ran from the end of July through early August, our sleeping arrangements were in the old Navy barracks, no A/C. The mosquitoes were the size of birds and my thermometer would not go lower than 85 at night. I never want to ever experience that again, I can imagine it was close to what the gulf states feel like during the summer....They have since renovated those dorms and added A/C....ha

Started cutting tomato branches with blight. Ten days, 8.5" of rain is never good for tomatoes, glad to see some dryness the next couple of days. Tons of tomatoes on the plants in desperate need of sun and heat....