MANDA

Roughly about 35 minutes remaining on sunrise gains and sunset gains. Slow gain on both between now and about June 21st. To @MJO812and @nycwinter hang in there !

Latest from WPC has shifted max totals northward (vs. 12Z issuance) from VA Piedmont northward into PA, southern tier of NY and into NJ. This is through 00Z, Thurs. 5/8. Will all depend on placement of upper low and speed at which it exits. Needless to say I would be thrilled with half these totals. Possible southeast fetch lifted into the higher terrain of PA, NJ, NYS could deliver heavy totals but still subject to how upper low evolves.

Same here!

April precipitation here was 4.76". While a nice total most of that fell in the first 12 days. Only an additional .74" fell from the 13th. through the 30th. April also delivered 1.5" snow for a 2024-25 total of 30.9". Rainfall amounts over the next week will depend greatly on final track / placement of upper low. Slight positioning and speed differences will have big impact on who gets what. Thinking a compromise of wet EURO / CMC vs. dry GFS is way to go at the moment as @bluewave said. Pattern has potential to deliver or disappoint. With the wind, low humidity and lack or rainfall over the last 2 weeks or so we could use a 1"+ soaking.

Nice time lapse of T-Storms moving through NYC early Saturday evening. https://x.com/i/status/1916519549328896468

And if correct will also keep things on the drier side of normal on a NW flow.

Two day event totals. Click to enlarge Here is link: https://www.cocorahs.org/

Two day total here was .60". Not great but better than nothing. Windy again with gusts into the mid 30's.

Little better here with .39" as of 7:30 this morning. Doesn't look like much additional unless like you said a heavier downpour delivers. Disappointing and not going to help the dryness to any degree. Temperatures look to be on the the cooler or at least seasonable side as we open May.

Hoping for a 1" soaking. Will take .5" but will be disappointed with anything less. Soil is dry.

Sorry no. I tend to not spend much time on things I have no control over. As it is I do my part by living in NJ. I am forced to carry bags into a grocery store and drink from paper straws. That should help things a bit.

Yeah. Then cow farts and industry came along and changed everything. This area was once covered in a glacier and it melted and receded. No humans or industry then. To each his own I guess. No denying planet has warmed over the past 20-30 years but not human induced. Time will tell but most of us here today could welll be on the other side of the grass by then.

Sorry. You are delusional if you think for one second humans are going to stop the climate from changing no matter what we do. Trying to block out the sun, really?

100% agree. The planet is what about 4.5 billion years old, give or take a half billion. Just when exactly was the climate not changing? To think we're going to change anything by driving around in plug in cars and silencing cow farts is absurd. Experiments to dim sunlight? Yeah, that will end well.

Had 30.9" at my location. Except for 3 events of between 5 and 6" I could have done without the remaining nuisance 1-2" events. Nevertheless a total is a total and compared so some totals on this map even into the Catskills, mid Hudson Valley and NW CT I did well.

Cold west. Warm east. I'll take it ! Pattern looks dry for a while though.

Yeah, most guidance is rather dry for the next week to 10 days. Latest Drought Monitor shows improvement but still not ideal. We could go backwards with a renewed dry spell. Especially if weather turns unseasonably warm. Dryness mostly would affect ag interests initially as we head into the growing season. For now through all is ok. Just have to watch for any long stretches of dryness.

Likely yes. Thankfully.

Have to disagree. It sucks. It was mostly cloudy, windy and temperatures in my part of NJ only got into the m/u 40's. This weather blows chunks for mid April. The constant wind is beyond tiresome.

I boarded that train a month ago! At least the warm part of it. I'm not rooting for endless dryness.

Temperature 38 with a gusty wind at times. Lots of clouds associated with cyclonic rot. Stinks!

Another windy day. What else is new. Really gusty here today.

Last vestiges of ice still hanging on over the far east end of Lake Erie.

Nice out today. Especially in the sun. Bit of a gusty breeze at times but nice day.

Event total here was 1.55" with 1.5" snow. We've made good drought progress over the last several weeks. Most of the area should be in the abnormally dry or D0 classification on the Drought Monitor that comes out this coming Thursday.