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.04. Still dry...

This is pretty wild, almost the entire northeast is gonna get wet at some point today with some areas getting totally soaked. The front has already broken up as it is getting to me and it's dry outside with lightning off in the distance. The backside storm line is already collapsing to the southeast and looks like it's going to miss me entirely too. Dry begets dry...

Yeah the stinging bugs have been overwhelming. I do many many miles on the road and the front of whatever car I'm in that day gets plastered. In a weird way it's not so bad that mine has been in for recall work for a month because I've done about 6,000 hard road miles and the loaner car (that had 111 miles on it when I picked it up) looks like it's been through several wringers. There are bugs drilled so deep into what was new paint they're never coming out. These bugs and I have put a serious hurt on the resale value of this loaner

Yeah now that it's silted in your probably SOL as far as restoring it as a pond but the DEC should be amenable to the stream being restored because that flow is important in a variety of ways. They may even take a look and see what happened upstream and choose to do a full stream restoration at pretty much no cost to you. I've seen it happen several times relating to storm damage. It's possible they'd determine that the pond is also important to regulate that flow so they may choose to do a partial restoration. It might be worth contacting them to see what they say. I was up in the Albany area today, started in Kingston this morning. At that point the weather was beautiful but storm clouds were starting to build over the high peaks. By the time I got to Albany around noon there were storms starting to roll around the Catskills and Adirondacks. When I left the north side of the metro area around 4:30 it was stormy just to the west and it followed me all the way to the Taconic. It drizzled for a minute up in Columbia County but that was it. They got another good soaking from about I90 north though.

I should sit down and add up all of the precip since mid June when it dried out after the exceedingly wet first half of the year. I bet it's under 3" here. You'd never know from looking at the flora but the ground is rock hard and dusty and some stuff is starting to burn out. I've watched storms go north and south of me way more often than I'm used to, this area here isn't usually the dry spot for the region. Most of the small and mid sized ponds are scummy and even one of the big reservoirs is going through a cyano-bloom. Most of the creeks are down to a dribble now and some of the local ponds the level is starting to go down so I figure the water temp is getting too high creating the algae and general nasty look to things.

It drizzled hard enough to wet the ground but not much else. The dryness continues.

It drizzled hard enough to wet the ground but not much else. The dryness continues.

The ice storms last winter in Feb and March were significant. More of an impact than snow would have been that's for sure.

Looks like .05 yesterday. Two months ago who would have thought I'd be saying we need some rain here...

I barely got drizzled on in the first round but 4 miles southeast of me in Somers they got good and wet. Looking forward to a reasonable soaking, the ground really needs it.

Congratulations.

I can tell you why it wasn't the best winter for me The definitive statements thing has really gotten old. It's beautiful outside this morning. Gonna go play in the woods because the wife and I are heading down to Fire Island for the weekend, first time we're getting out without the kids since my little health scare 8 months ago. Looks like it's going to be a bit cooler than you'd like for a beach weekend but that's infinitely better than too hot.

I want to open the windows to refresh the air in the house! Changing the filter in the blower for the AC wasn't sufficient. I'm looking forward to some nice air to get outside and do some stuff. That line of storms west of us is no joke. It looks like the I81 corridor just got slapped. I wonder what's left in it when it gets to us.

Maybe a little questionable later but it feels nice out there now and it looks like the next few days are just about perfect.

I haven't been getting much but it has kept things moist for a few days now. A bit of rain just before dark then a slow foggy start and things are looking mighty lush. The ground is good and firm but the flora has responded nicely. I went for a walk around the local golf course and it was crazy humid until boom, t-storm. Home which is only a few minutes away it's been dry so far.

It never ceases to impress me how dramatic the difference in the sensible weather can be over such short distances. I think we notice it most in the winter but it's actually more significant in the warm seasons.

Looks like we get a couple of decent (but humid and sticky) hours ahead of the potential this afternoon. I'm heading out to take advantage of it now.

Yeah I might have to pull the mower out again too. Not due to how much but at what time of day it fell. Between the last two evening showers that happened just before dark everything stayed wet overnight and started growing again. I'm not sure if I like it or not...

I just had a very heavy shower, it's lighter now and making a great sunshower kind of thing. I was up a few miles from Lake George earlier today and it's SO dry up there. From the rain last night it's wet and moist from me up to about mid Columbia County then it dries out big time.

Like I said, didn't get much but, it came at the right time of day and got to soak in overnight so everything got well watered. It's really dry up here at Lake George.

It was firing rapidly here and I was on the southern fringe. I got some nickel sized hail but only for about 2 minutes and it was still more rain than hail. First I've seen it here in a few years though so that was nice. If you went south of me into Somers there wouldn't have been any other than what was blowing in from the north. All in all a good storm, great wind, heavy rain and hail but it was over as quickly as it started. I'll clean up the downed branches tomorrow and look forward to the next one. After a month or so without significant rain it was nice that it was a solid t-storm but it would have been better if it rained more.

I got whacked but was really just on the fringe. The wind was for real, branches down all over but I don't think I got more than a tenth or two of rain.

Yo @DRVTS are you getting smoked up there or what? Radar looks like your backyard is getting pummeled.

BOOM BANG FLASH ZAP good storm happening just a few feet to my north. It's really banging away out there. I'm just getting fringe rains and outflow boundaries so far. edit: Woah there's the heavy rain.

I'm gonna hold you to that