gravitylover

Lets see what we can do to move that first frost out to early or even mid November. Thanx. Well, I did get wet but just barely. All of the local stations are down but I don't think it was any more than .1". I guess that keeping the soil in the garden beds moist for days is all I can ask for, the cool temps are a bonus.

Hang on down there. It has been an absolutely beautiful morning up here (so far) but I can see the storm just slightly to my SSW sliding by to the east. That's not going to help me ease the precip deficit I've got going but this has been the typical setup for the last 10 weeks or so, I'm pretty much used to it.

There won't be a Santa Claus visit this year, too many travel restrictions.

You nailed it Walt. The storm cluster early this AM crushed me with the heaviest rain since May. I got 1.3" in less than an hour! It was more than I got in the two tropical storms put together. Good wind, great lightning and gutter overflowing downpours. See what you can do to rustle up a few more of those

I barely squeaked out .02 yesterday but finally got some real rain overnight, looks like 1.3. The station on my street went down when the power went out so I had to blend the next nearest 3 stations that didn't lose power. That's the first really good rain I've had since May! Yep, time is skewed badly this year and doesn't feel real in many aspects. I dont quite know how to straighten that out but I'm pretty sure I dont want to keep going through this nebulous space for much longer.

You do realize how far apart these two places are right? There are also some big mutha rocks in the way too, Mt Whitney is basically a 14,000 foot tall wall on the east side (facing Death Valley) so any weather that makes it over the top boils off as it falls over and meets baking dry air that's rising. It's cool to watch and you can see it over many western mt ranges with radical east or south side drops.

Northern is worse but I'm getting used to it

It started misting again around 5. It's not adding up to anything but it's nice that everything stayed wet all day, first time that's happened in quite a while. .23 total for the day.

64/63/DRZL/E1-2 Ooh ooh, up to .2" but the northern edge does seem to be sinking south and it's barely drizzling now so that may be all she wrote. I'd sure like to see another inch or so but that doesn't appear to be happening

Hopefully the beach won't be elbow to elbow people like when I was there a few weeks ago. I was so uncomfortable I literally sat under our umbrella for almost the whole time we were there other than hopping in the water for like 5 minutes until someone bumped me and swung her head around and whipped me with her hair. The crowd was just overwhelming. This rain is wonderful! It's not adding up to much, .1 so far, but it's at least soaking the surface slowly and actually making things wet. After having my well run dry yesterday for the first time in years I'd be fine with losing an outdoor day if this would continue all day. It takes a heckuva dry spell to drain a 396 foot deep well, I guess 10 weeks with only about 5" was the threshold...

64/63/RN-/ENE1 This is the first steady rain I've gotten in a while but so far it's only .1". I think that 1mph wind is a bit light, the trees are moving a little bit more than that would suggest.

I won't miss it

Looks like it stays along or south of I278 in Westchester (again) and within a few miles of the coast in CT if they hold together that far east.

I had a few hours of fog this morning It's already into the low 80's and climbing fast so further drying is on tap. Yay...

I'm curious to see whose ideas pan out for later today, you or WDrag who seems to feel that the T-storm line will be 20-30 miles south of this. Similar to the differences in winter this "wet" period for much of the Metro Area has been anything but here in Putnam County. For all intents the dry period started in early June and hasn't changed. I did get some rains in July and about an inch so far this month but all told it's about 5" in total since 6/1 which is very light for this area and it's really starting to show. Much of the flora is showing late summer/early fall colors and trees in the usual spots are beginning to turn but this is 2 weeks earlier than even their regular schedule. The forest understory all faded and much of it died off already which is also several weeks early, the stress is evident. On the upside the dryness has allowed the bees and other pollinators to flourish far above the levels of the last couple of years, I have more bees in the garden this year than any other since the early years of this century.

So, another complex that's likely to stay south of me. Dry begets dry...

I'm not even at 5" altogether since the beginning of July. Both "big" storms didn't even add up to 1.5" and everything else has been .5 or less. June was bone dry. It's crazy how big the difference is around the region and how it shows in such a small an area.

You got rain yesterday? Lucky... Not a drop here. Again.

Just hold that rain off on Thursday and Friday. I have some outside work scheduled and the next opening for this contractor is 3 months away. Thanks.

^^ 2020 the gift that keeps on giving.

I was sitting outside last night and the yard was filled with them! That was pretty cool to see this late in the season.

Boy I can't buy more than a few hundredths of an inch of rain lately. I woke up Friday morning and it was wet and I got excited but it was only .09". I could sit and add it up but I don't think I've had 5" total since the beginning of June.

Yeah, snowstorms are worse. The power goes out here pretty often in winter storms and boy does the house get cold in a hurry when that happens. At least during the other 3 seasons the chances of frozen pipes are pretty slim and while it sux to sleep when the dewpoint is in the 70's its better than when the house is 38°. We've had a few early and late season snowstorms that were just devastating and made life really suck.

I don't understand how everybody thinks power restoration can happen much more quickly than it is. For instance, there's a street lower down on my hill that had over 70 trees down, those have to be cut out before the trucks can get in to deal with the ONE that took out the power line. There are many streets like this and many problems similar to this. What about the dozens (hundreds?) of snapped utility poles, do you think the suppliers just happen to have replacements for them just sitting around waiting to be used? What about the specialty crews that do that work, how many can each company have available? With staff reductions over the last few years they have to draw on assistance from other areas but those companies also have reduced staff. I get it that rates have ballooned in most areas and the expectation is that maintenance and service should be better but, unfortunately, that's not the way it works. Don't get me wrong, I'm certainly not defending the power supply co's and I can't stand that we're all stuck paying more for a system that's inherently broken but when I watched a group of my neighbors screaming at a guy that was assessing the damage so he could call in the right kind of crews to solve the problem and he was from Illinois and had just finished driving here a few hours before that I realized that people's expectations are simply too high. They all seemed to think he was just going to jump in the bucket and fire up the chainsaw right there on the spot, that's not how it works. Sorry I'm just getting tired of the complaining. We live in an area plagued by an antiquated network of overhead supply lines and there is no easy solution to that or to the storm damage that follows. A little bit of self sufficiency can go a long way, a decent small generator goes a long way as does a rooftop or yard solar installation (if you can afford it) can ease the pain.

They got us back on around 11am today. We were out buying some new appliances and light fixtures to replace the ones that blew when the power surged before it went down. Gonna do some eatin' now then take a nice hot shower. Yay.