gravitylover

Before the clouds took over I saw some awesome towers to my south and to the west. This is obviously just a guess but I'd say 40k or higher with lightning shooting up and down. My wife even realized the awesomeness which is rare.

I bet that made ya happy

I'm getting some really light drizzle. It's really dark and thunder is rumbling just to my west, has been for over an hour.

Damn this rain... I had pretty much dealt with the bugs in the garden but now it's overrun with grubs and cabbage worms It looks bad enough that I might lose most of my potatoes and I'm going to fight like hell not to lose the cauliflower and broccoli but it may be a lost cause too. This morning I sat on the ground pulling slugs for an hour and that's after I treated for them. Grrr...

Try standing outside waiting for them to work on you car, this sun is brutal. Car repair shops all still have their waiting rooms closed so you're stuck with the parking lot. 88-89° with very little breeze is tough to just stand around in.

Nah I barely got any rain, I'm betting it's well under .1" and I'm 55 miles due north of midtown Manhattan. That's ok though I don't want more rain for another day or two, the garden doesn't need it or want it after yesterday. edit: .16"

Nothing at all here (yet).

I got about the same, 90 minutes of steady moderate capped off with a gutter overrunning deluge. Garden seems happy other than one head of lettuce that got crushed and I think I can hear the lawn growing

I just got the heaviest rain of the year so far. It totally overwhelmed the gutters and poured over in sheets.

Well this turned out much better than expected, 90 minutes of good steady rain that came in gently to wet the ground so the heavier stuff didn't run off. The bad part is when the sun comes out the lawn is going to go crazy but be too wet to mow for a few days. While I love a good storm this is what we needed.

Radar kind of looks like this first round is going to stay north, I got a few drops but that's it so far. I'm right on the Putnam/Westchester line for reference.

58*, clear and calm. Another great morning.

It never really warmed up here today, it's actually been another COC day. One station in town is at 89 now but everything else topped out at 86 or lower. Dry with mostly clear to partly cloudy with a light breeze made for perfect outside napping conditions this afternoon

The northern solution wouldn't surprise me. It's closer to where the wetness has been the last month or so. If the boundary set up along that moist area rather than where it's so dry down here it sort of makes sense to my simple brain. Actually, isn't that where the snow line set up so much of last winter too?

Yeah me only earning a couple hundred bucks a month for 4 months now is painful, possibly even more so than the last 5 weeks of intense back pain with the first two weeks of that needing a cane to stand up and get started moving. I think the mental anguish that wakes you (me) up in the middle of the night worrying about that is a terrible thing and I don't see it going away anytime soon.

Quite the opposite here, the air is crystally clear and it was September morn' cool and calm with the birds tweeting away as happily as could be while the buzzy flying critters were pollinating the garden. If I could order up another 75 or so of these for this year I surely would.

Do you folks have any idea just how nice it is/was outside early this morning? Top 5 for the year! ...and you missed it

So this is an I80/495 special? How about the 84 corridor, do we get to look south and see the clouds or do we get to play along?

OMG it's so nice out. It's rare that I'm happy I woke up just after sunrise, I woke up started my coffee then realized what time it was so I figured I'd go sit outside and enjoy it so I wouldn't bother the fam. That was definitely the best decision I'm going to make today.

Our luck it'll come hard and fast and just run off.

JC having a rough time there. Sorry dude.

I was out mt biking yesterday and the forest is tinder dry. The season started out with great understory growth due to good moisture and a very slow start to leafout but then it dried out and that growth mostly died off quickly adding to the problem. Between that and the last few years of storms and rotted branch drops during the very wet periods we had all of the fuel on the floor from the last few years is just waiting for a spark and with the additional huge numbers of people using the woods it's just a matter of when not if.

Yeah there's no way 2020 is letting us off too easy on the weather.

Turned into a pretty nice day, breeze came up and the air dried out nicely. Woulda been nice to see some rain but it is what it is. The forest is bone dry and the creeks are more like a series of puddles.

Now that I spent over an hour watering the garden I'm almost guaranteed that today will be the day I get doused with a good t-storm.