gravitylover

Around 11 this morning all of a sudden the temp jumped and the dews shot up. We popped 90 and by 11:30 it was storming. I didn't see any lightning but there was plenty of rolling thunder and a short burst of fairly heavy rain. It has gotten sunny again here but just south of me it's pretty dark and still rumbling.

What are the water temps up to now? We were up at Misquamicut Beach in RI last Friday and the water was still in the low-mid 50's. Too cold...

^^Damn I'm tired of these warm nights. Not only does it skew things and make people think it's warmer than it is when they see the stats but more importantly it's messing with my garden. Between too much rain and general moisture and too much warmth without recovery times things just aren't growing right. My carrots and tomatoes can't seem to dry out and really get growing and I've already lost a few plants to too much water. I miss those times when nights, even in the heart of the warm season, would make it into the 50's a few times a week. It seems that the forest understory appreciates this overnight warmth though, things like ground growth plants and poison ivy/oak are having themselves a big ol' time this year Not quite IMBY but close, I have an outdoor event tomorrow on the central CT coast, near New London. What are the chances the heavy rain stays away until after 5pm? I have a feeling that's very wishful thinking but I'm hoping someone can tell me it's not.

In a way it does. That same stabilization happens but unfortunately it's a warming influence. Until the bay freezes (or at least slushes over) the whole south side of town is noticeably warmer than elsewhere. I remember many times getting 3-5" while my friends over by Boardman would barely get 1" and the north side of town by the hospital would get 6". The difference in "wintry feel" from one side of town to the other was significant. It was pretty much the same all along the bay areas/towns on the south shore, I can't imagine that has changed much.

I keep finding all of these great spots in VT that are slightly off the beaten path. I love that kind of stuff. Where are you headed? This daughter (I have twins) is a pretty hardcore little mt biker chick. She really gets after it. If I ask her which way she wants to go at a trail intersection she'll ask which one has more climbing or is tougher and then choose that one. She was #1 and 2 in the state in the high school race league. Her nickname is crash because she tries so hard and doesn't always succeed so she hits the ground pretty often.

In Oceanside? I remember many days growing up where it seemed like the open expanse of relatively warm shallow water in the bay would stabilize the air and kill the breeze that was blowing well in Island Park. I used to spend A LOT of time on my bicycle and could directly feel the difference. There were so many times we'd be 10 or more degrees warmer than IP or LB.

Hey how well do you know your way around 909? Want to meet for a ride Thursday morning? In my continuing quest to break my 20 year old daughter I want to watch her struggle with the climb up Pond Gut.

I wish that was all we had here.

I'd be good with half as much rain.

Yeah we've gone a few times, it's only 10 minutes from the house. You got a good night for it. We've had two rounds of heavy rain now, everything is soaked again. I got out for a great ride in between, the ground was wet but not too soft and the trails were fresh from the super heavy rain from round 1, It really was great.

I was in central VT yesterday and they were saying it has been since early September since they've had 4 consecutive days without precip. I think we got that once or twice this year.

Starting to? I've been waterlogged here for a long time already. Mold, mildew, all sorts of mushrooms and sh*t is growing like crazy. I have weeds 6 feet tall in the back of the yard that i can't get to easily. That heavy rain you guys are seeing sounds like what I saw in VT yesterday. So heavy it was floating sewer caps out and leaving holes open and creeks were flowing across rather than underneath roads.

The thing is when you're driving and can't see much because it's raining so hard you don't know what's about to happen until it happens. It's not like you're going to stop and sit in the road waiting for the heaviest rain to pass and you can't really just pull into someones driveway so you keep going.

It rained so hard in Middlebury VT today the storm drains were overflowing. I drove through water on the road so deep and fast moving it went completely over my car. Submarining at 40mph is pretty cool

I just want Sunday to be nice. I'm only asking for one day. ONE DAY.

Ooh but that sure does look like an arrow pointing at LI/RI that shows right where tropical storms and hurricanes would be directed doesn't it?

Range around here is 1.27>2.01 with most around 1.65. It was a very wet day.

Local stations are all between ~1.2 and ~1.7 so far and it's still coming down steadily. Some of the downpours were rally heavy, my garden took a beating The sun will come out... Saturday? I just want Sunday to be nice at Citi Field.

Here that was Sunday. They let it dry out on Saturday with the wind then mowed and trimmed and blew clean and ran the chainsaws and chippers and... It was loud. I'm so glad I've got the front lawn down to about 20 minutes of good solid hill work with the mower and have all but given up on the back because nobody can see it but us. I'll have to run through it a few times but with all the trees and stuff down from the winter it's a disaster that I don't feel like tackling. I'd rather spend my yard time growing food, the garden is looking great this year.

It has been soggy here all day. In and out rain, sometimes light sometimes moderate. The fog has been in and out too as the temp fluctuates between rain periods. Right now it's drizzly and very humid. Happy mud day

Alright enough already. Can someone turn the wind off...

Yup it's nice out in an early October or mid April kind of way. The wind is doing a great job of drying out the surface too.

.4", 54* and the heavy stuff is incoming in the next little bit.

A wet week ahead? Some of the big time dark places I've been around the continent have been pretty impressive. The deep desert and the Yukon/NW Territories are unbelievably dark and have some of the most incredible night skies you can imagine. I camped out at a bunch of Anasazi ruins around AZ when I lived down there and they were crazy dark if it was cloudy, can't see your hand in front of your face kind of dark when you're out in the open.

Wow the humidity really dropped, down to 50% and still dropping. Gonna have to get off my bum and go do something.