gravitylover

When our kids were little we would plan to do the outdoor stuff early and try to be done by 2. We usually avoided storminess and ate a lot of ice cream watching it rain after we were done outside.

This morning I mowed the lawn and did some yardwork before the sun broke through. It was mostly bearable but still a soaker.

We did a street fair in Chatham (NY) and it was unpleasantly hot, probably about 95 on the sunny side of the street where we were and stifling with the humidity and no wind.

^^ And it sux

You've been watching too much Star Trek

I think that growing up in Oceanside the immediate south shore summer dryness badly skewed my perception of summer weather in the northeast. My memories are of pleasant, mostly sunny days where you just went and did stuff outside all the time. My time was almost entirely spent south of Merrick Rd and mostly more than a mile S of that and daily watering was definitely a thing, you could easily tell who didn't (like me ) Ha! My garden is having a pretty good mushroom year too. It's a sign of healthy soil so I'm good with it. Thankfully our dog isn't a "taster" and pretty much stays away from them and the slime molds.

Dry here so far and it looks like I may split the uprights again. Didn't think I'd be watering the garden today.

It's not so bad once you get used to it. You just go inside where it's air conditioned.

It's passing by to my S/SW, dark clouds moved in here with lots of thunder not too far away. There's big stuff off toy NE too.

Just a small sample of my brilliance

Hmmm I guess that's why there's all those mostly flat, easy to build on FLOODPLAINS along those bigger rivers. I guess that got away from them.

I got over 2" that one day last week, I wasn't here for it, but other than that I've gotten it a few hundredths at a time. Today is at .1 (so far).

I'll warn @Rjay

And that just spurred a whole line of thought... Some sort of collector at a significant height above the ground above a vertical farm with some sort of spinny power generator turned by the water on it's way down. Food, power and water and they could be just about anywhere. Maybe the first floor has a green market selling fresh produce to the neighborhood too.

If that's the same one I remember around then we had deep standing water for a day or three in central Oceanside. I remember it because I had to repack the hubs on my bike from riding through it, back and forth, over and over..., when it was that deep.

Looks like the Ithaca area got hammered and Kingston is getting it right now. Rhinebeck is gonna get it good in a few minutes.

1.9 so far

Well, since nearly all other climate experiments and research has been squashed we should be happy ours will be ignored and be more likely to continue unimpeded.

Over the last few days I set up a drip irrigation system for the garden because we'll be out of town for a week. Now we're out and it feels weird to be turning it on when I'm 4 hours away. I sure hope the critters didn't mess with it too much and the water is going where it's supposed to.

Nice little round of moderately heavy rain passing thru.

A little rain this morning was nice. Cool, cloudy and windy feels good after the last few days.

One of the Top 5 roads in the State. Possibly top 3

"... odd man dancing around in a bathing suit last seen spinning across the park..."

91/79

80/75 with an overnight low of 75°.