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With this rain I'm at 1.13" of rain for the month, so the area can use it. I have an irrigation system, so I'm good, but many neighbors lawns and flowers are looking quite thirsty. Seems like from Walt's map above, a decent amount of NJ South of 78 and away from the coast were in the shaft zone. My black walnut tree seems to be dropping leaves already. It is usually the last to leaf out and the first to drop leaves, but this is early.

Same here, .23"

In some places, just .19 here

59 this morning, 68 for the high. 0.11" of all day mist.

Thank you for this well thought out response. Makes sense to me. Appreciate it. Micro-meteorological is a good term for a city landscape.

.04" with mist.

That shows near surface too (the top temperature on it) and there are a million examples online from sites you probably whack to. I will wait for Tips answer since he is actually smart and has the credentials and you really didn't answer anything at all.

Thanks, I figured it was something like that. It is pretty amazing how that happens that it can even out for the high temps. Something like this I picture see posted often in numerous ways showing the difference, in a city setting, how having trees lowers temps everywhere from the air to the ground we walk on (and has been done around the world proving it works). Wouldn't this be an example of UHI during the day? Or, would we say the temps on the lower picture are not accurate for the air since it is under a canopy of trees? So the lower picture is like Central Park temps which people in my forum argue about every day of the week and the top picture is actually the accurate one for temps? Here is where this pic was from https://symsoil.medium.com/trees-climate-change-and-community-878280498546 I see this movement talked about often though for cities and it would be nice if adopted by many more.

How come if lows are higher, that doesn't make highs also higher since the starting point for the day is already a higher temp? When I see reports of some cities around the world planting more trees in cities and then saying high temps went down by 5 degrees during the day for example, is that not showing that UHI also effects the high temps? Not denying anything, but just wondering. Especially about the 2nd question because I see that talked about on many "green" type forums and how many cities should adopt that to lower daytime temps (obviously because of more shade).

18z NAM fairly dry, though 3k NAM pretty wet.

76 here, beautiful day.

It is always hard with snow, but your post still is accurate. 16-17 I had 28", so like 2" below average, and I'm 42 miles SW as the crow flies to NYC, but 44 miles NE of Philly, so almost right in the middle of both cities. There was sharp cutoff that season, but that is the nature of total snow many years.

Most models don't have very much for most of the area

All missed here. Philly area getting hammered

Is that for Philly?