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  1. There are a couple of Mennonite bike shops on farms that I work with that I can hang out on for the day. I warned them that I might be there early in the morning already :) They're scattered all around so I have my bases covered for quiet spots. It might be fun watching the animals be confused when it gets dark during the day. 

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  2. 7 hours ago, snowman19 said:

    I don’t think it’s going to just be dry heat, not with the record soil moisture we have. It’s probably going to be humid as hell

    IF we can go a few weeks while everything is leafing out with minimal rain and a fair bit of wind the top few feet will dry out nicely. 

  3. The creeks and small lakes and ponds were in ok shape early this morning but now most are bursting at the seams. The amount of water coming off the hills is impressive considering I'm only at 2.5. Everything is just so saturated... 

  4. So I'm almost a half mile north of the flood watch, does that mean my basement won't be wet :(

    No, there's not much I can do about it unless I can figure out how to dig French drains into rocky soil by hand. 

  5. 2 hours ago, Brian5671 said:

    We've gone about 10 days or so here since the last big rainer-at least the water has stopped coming out of the ground lol.    Dry air last 2 days really helping-dewpoint 15-20 degrees

    Yeah the surface has dried out nicely but a foot down is a different story. It is really nice that my yard isn't squishy anymore. 

  6. 2 hours ago, SnoSki14 said:

    Yeah there's huge rainmaker potential here. The amounts offshore are pretty ridiculous. 

    A perfectly timed cutoff would bring 6"+ amounts to us. 

    Luckily its been dry lately so we should be fine unless we see 3"+ amounts. 

    Dry? Not here. I'm at ~5" for the month. My basement was a half inch deep last weekend with that nearly 2". Any time it rains more than a half inch or so the water just seeps through the walls from about 3' off the floor and up through the floor drain. The ground is still saturated, creeks are still high and most local ponds and NYC reservoirs are still totally full and the overflow dams are still running strong.  

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  7. On 3/14/2024 at 2:18 PM, Dark Star said:

    But I'm jealous of your location...

    We'll be out in a few years, come and get it. 

    15 hours ago, Juliancolton said:

    The plant diseases and soil issues are gonna be totally unmanageable this year. I have close to zero motivation to grow anything at this point

    Right? I was looking at the garden area today and started cleaning up but kept sinking into mildewy ickiness. I'll probably just do hanging stuff with fresh soil this year. 

  8. As nice as these days have been my driveway is still wet and the sides are still soggy, not to the point where water comes up around your shoes when you step on it but it still squishes. Someday my neighbors will move and I can cut the thicket down so the sun and wind can get to the ground. Until then as long as this wet regime hangs around I guess I'll just watch the moss grow and crumble the terminally soggy pavement :( 

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  9. 26 minutes ago, Dark Star said:

    I suppose wetter than normal is better than drier than normal, as longer as there is no excessive flooding?

    Not at this point it isn't. All it takes is a couple of tenths for my basement walls to start seeping again. When it rains an inch or more I suck 100s of gallons out with a shop vac over the next couple of days. We usually put a car in front of the house to make it easier to deal with the driveway but I can't because the mud is tenacious and I've been stuck several times now. The backyard is spongy and the garden is too wet to plant anything. #bringbackthedrought for a month or two ;) 

  10. 12 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

    wow that sounds like some amazing memories.  1944 and 1948 were extremely hot at JFK and so was 1953 and 1954 and 1955 from what I've read and of course 1966.  And they got to experience some amazing TCs too like the 1944 hurricane, Carol in 1954 and Donna in 1960!

    And in 1947 they got the HECS of record for that period, the day after Christmas!  The original Boxing Day Blizzard!

    Heh, dad used to talk about 5 year old him stepping off the top step of the porch and sinking right up to his eyes. 

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  11. The way the wind has been a steady roar for hours is kind of at odds with most of the stations around here (on WU), it seems that it should be higher than 6-9 with gusts to 13. The local mesonets are ~20/G30-35. Are most homeowner setups just too low to get decent measurements when it's like this? It sure is nice out of the wind in the sun :sun:

  12. 35 minutes ago, TJW014 said:

    So, I had planned snowshoeing Balsam Lake Mountain in the Catskills on Monday morning... This should be fun...

    IMG_9687.jpeg

    Bring the snowshoes anyway, you might need them to get through the muddy sections.

    2 minutes ago, jm1220 said:

    Yay Perma-Nina.

    :( 

  13. 7 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

    Hopefully more sunny days like yesterday, I saw starting next Monday we'll have a long stretch of dry sunny weather.

    "warm" weather without sunshine is useless and shouldn't count as warm weather.

     

    Cold without snow is a waste...

    5 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

    I'm wondering if we can get NW flow at least a few days each week we'll be okay.  If this same thing happens during the summer, this is when we'll make a run at 100 degrees.

    During the 50s, what caused all those 100 degree days and such long heatwaves? I think there was a year in there (was it 1953 or 1954), when NYC hit 100+ degrees 4 or maybe even 5 times? We had many more major TC coming up the east coast back then too as well as big severe outbreaks like the one which caused the F5 Worcester Tornado.)

    Really the period between 1944 and 1960 was pretty amazing for long extreme heatwaves and big east coast tropical cyclones.

    My parents grew up in Far Rockaway and Belle Harbor from the mid 40's until they went to O'side in 1970 with a short stint in Brooklyn in the late 60s. They talked about the whole neighborhood spending the night on the beach many times in the 50s. My mom went to the beach or her neighbors cabana and and my dad's house was a few up from the beach so they put mattresses out on the 2nd floor porches. Those same 2nd floor porches were where they'd watch the ocean come up the street during big storms a few times a year, was probably a few times in the decade but, ya know. 

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  14. 45 minutes ago, forkyfork said:

    looks like an inch+ for most of us today

    .5 so far

    @JustinRP37 There is no good way to appreciate these raw, gloomy days. You'd think that having had so many my basement workshop rooms would be clean and organized... 

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