tamarack

All true. but . . . My impressions came from the PoP being 70%, forecast precip .10-.25 and .25-.50 depending on location plus each amount included "more in thunderstorms". Only 5 of the 102 cocorahs reports had more than 0.41" while the median report was 0.11".

AFDs will not infrequently add qualifiers like "heavy" or even "torrential" (have seen both from GYX). Also, crying "wolf!" too often can lead to complacency. GYX/CAR appropriately had both CWAs entirely in SVR-watches. There were several warned storms and a lot of fierce-looking radar. Only a handful if sites reported 1"", none over 1.5", and local cocorahs reports here were more like 0.12". The ingredients were there, the watches posted, but the system underperformed.

Not quite 50 but close enough - 7/31/76 was the date of the Big Thompson River (CO) flash flood that took 144 lives plus a handful of others never found. One hopes that disaster remains at the top (maybe "worst" more appropriate).

Lots of sites in the Northeast had their coldest August morning during the last few days of that month in 1965. Also, MWN had a couple inches of snow.

Mild TS finishing here, no strikes within ~4 miles, mostly light RA. Some 1" hail reported in N. Aroostook.

Snow season started great, with 8" paste T-Day night. The 9.3" fell on 12/4-5, bring the pack to 15", tops here for the date. Little did I know that the best was behind; that 4-5 event was the season's biggest and the remainder was mostly spent escaping from serious snowfalls. After the nice 6.3" fluff on 12/24, we had only one event greater than 4". No other winter here can claim that factiod.

We're already in trouble. But not because of a carpet of oak germinants - 99.9% will die due to insufficient sunlight.

Mature trees produce 100k's of seed in a good year. Only takes one making it into the main crown canopy to sustain the species.

About +1.35 here. We were +1.6 by 6/6 and the final 24 days were almost exactly average despite last week having days of +13, +12 and -13. Whipsawn

In a few hours this month will be only the third June out of 28 to have zero thunder - others were in 2007 and 2014. Also, this will be our only year in which the first half failed to produce a single calendar day with 1"+ precip. The year of small storms.

As long as the temps aren't heat-stroke threats. 59 years ago the 4th was a Monday and the 3-day period below shows the NYC-area highs: NYC: 100, 103, 98 EWR: 102, 105, 100 LGA: 101, 107, 99 Dews were about 70 so no TD records, just head-cracking heat.

Keep telling folks that, so they won't move here and turn it into Massachusetts.

QPF has slid from 1.5-2.0 down to 1.0-1.5, now 0.5-1.0. Last time I saw that kind of trend we had 0.01". Seems like once I put in the garden it stops raining (this year) or never stops (2023).

Low of 42 this morning, 52° lower than Tuesday's high. (And possibly the coolest until September.)

GYX precip map has us at 1.5-2", though the AFD is only 0.75-1.25". Either one would be welcomed, as we've had only 1/2" in the past 2.5 weeks and my current limited movement prevents watering. Forecast high for Saturday is 58, cool but nothing special.