gravitylover

Oh man I'm so sorry you had to go through that. 

Ehh, the drive itself isn't so bad. I do 600 mile days pretty frequently, sometimes as much as 800 with work stops during the day. The life of a salesman...

What a beautiful fall day today is. I'd be good with days like this for months at a time. Dry with a light breeze and even a very light jacket, or at least long sleeves, in the shade but comfy in the sun. 

Looks like it's going to get warm and humid, hopefully it comes with some wind to dry things out a bit.

49 minutes ago, bluewave said:

This has to be the most well defined backdoor pattern that we have seen in the month of May.

 

I'd be curious to see a soil moisture map to see if there's a correlation. Anecdotally I'm pretty sure there is based on where the mt bike trails are in good shape and where they aren't.

I'm supposed to but not feeling like driving all the way out there for one day if it's going to rain. Unfortunately I can't stay for the weekend and need to be home for something on Saturday so it's a heck of a trip for a rainy day at over 5 hours each way.

Oh no that's terrible  Was it one of the shuttle buses that runs around or had you left the festival and gone into one of the local towns? 

Ha yeah that was the only time today that I was disappointed that my sunglasses were in my wifes car. Thankfully it only lasted for about 5 minutes so no harm done. I was thinking that the difference between your totals and the rest of us was that one night that you got doused and we didn't. That p&c looks awfully promising for the weekend but I'm not going to hold my breath.

Unfortunately Friday still looks rotten and I'm supposed to be at a mt bike festival south of State College for the day. I'm not feeling like a 6 hour, each way, drive is worth the effort just to stand outside in the mud and have a 60% chance of more rain while I'm there but the company really needs my help in the booth. Looks like it's gonna be an audible around 9pm Thursday night whether i go or not. 

5 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

Might have a 1996 kind of summer.

Your view on seasonal allergies- has the excessive rainfall the last two years lengthened the allergy season?  They were never this bad or this long in the early part of the decade- or ever before for that matter.

 

Extended winter weather and the resultant delayed spring makes it seem like allergy season is longer but I bet that it's about the same length just pushed out further. I know that it has been very moldy due to all of the moisture so that may be a factor for you also. 

Ooh ooh I saw 51* on the dashboard today  That was up in JC land near Rhinebeck. This weather sux.

3 hours ago, tek1972 said:

Definitely not the pouring rain that was predicted this evening, not that it makes much difference


 

Between 6:30-7:15 it absolutely poured between Brewster and Danbury. The windshield wipers were barely keeping up and the water on the roads was easily 1/2" deep. Everything is thoroughly saturated, the lower half of my yard is standing water and deep mud. 

And it's pouring again

I hope they're right. I'd sure like to see a nice day on Friday. I need to be in central PA for a mt bike festival and it's all day outside.

7 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

Looks like much of the heavy rain could miss to our N and W after this initial batch....

Doesn't matter, the drenching already happened here.

It sux when you run out of home heating oil when it's in the 30's at night in May and have to run out and get 5 gallons of diesel to get by. I'm going to need to get another 5 today too so we don't freeze tonight. This weather really needs to break for the season. Really...

A friend posted what looks like about 5" in southern VT this afternoon in her yard at ~1500 feet, it looks like quite a bit more higher up.

2 hours ago, 495weatherguy said:

The weather on Long Island is vastly different from yours.  We have had many more days of clouds and rain than up by you

What are you talking about? 22 out of 30 days in April it rained and I've only had one complete 24 hour period this month without some precip. Everything is soggy and moldy, trees are flopping over on hillsides because it's so wet, the overflow dams on the Croton River system haven't stopped running yet this month and only for a couple of hours here and there in April. I've been emptying the dehumidifier in my basement 2 or 3 times a day for the last 6 weeks and the bugs are HUGE already. You haven't been any more wet than we have here.

I just went through a couple of local stations on WU and apparently I've only had 1 day this month with no recorded precip. A few days were only a few hundredths but still... 46* wet and windy on 5/12. I guess it's better than in the higher spots in the Catskills https://www.plattekill.com/webcams/ Yuck.

59 minutes ago, forkyfork said:

this is disgusting and i hate it

You don't like snow in the winter and you don't like rain the rest of the year. Time to head for the desert buddy.

7 minutes ago, 495weatherguy said:

That sucks

It would be nice if we did get some nice weather for a change.   It has been so long since we had some nice weather

We just had 2 1/2 nice(ish) days, yesterday was wonderful. 

Yeah I just had to drive over to Ridgefield (CT) to pick up my father in law for Mothers Day dinner. Road conditions are pretty rotten, traffic through Danbury and into NY to I684 is really bad. Good thing I know all the back roads. 

Did it start raining before midnight? I'm curious because it adds another rain day for the month. If it did I've only had two days so far this month that it didn't rain at some point in the day.

^^ Wow. I know that it's snowing pretty far south in NH too from a friends FB post a little while ago. Radar looks like the heaviest rain is along I90 so that heaviest south of Long Island forecast is a fail. I hope the p&c for this week is wrong, as of now it looks like Wednesday might be the only good day. We need a good tropical storm to blow up this stupid WAR and change things up.

5 hours ago, forkyfork said:

i hope june through october is a furnace and next winter is snowless

Not too hot but yeah, warm and dry for a few weeks at a time would be nice. Snowless? No we need the water so spring through fall can be dry but none of that heavy wet stuff and no more ice storms. Those 5 weeks of sleet and ice this past winter sucked.

^^ Yep I had to mow again today and just did it a few days ago. With absolutely no effort on my part it's really filling in nicely. Not much grass but there's a lot of green stuff so I'm good with it. The back yard still looks like sh*t after losing 7 trees this winter. I have HUGE piles of brush from the crowns, it's piled up ten feet deep in one corner and 3-4 feet deep along a fair bit of the back edge (about 75 feet long) and 15 feet out from the fence. I think it's time to dump some of the old mower gas and have a rainy day brush burn soon so I can make room for more.

What a beautiful day today was. Who do I call to order a few more of these?

19 hours ago, Juliancolton said:

So this looks unpleasant

Ya think?

3 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

Today's weather is what I want it to be like EVERY DAY (outside of winter).  Finally I can breathe and no more mold allergies!  Low humidity, clear skies and NO RAIN!  When we finally get weather control I hope whomever controls it makes it like this EVERY DAY!

My garden loves it too- if it needs water, I have a hose (or two) for that!  If it never rains again until next fall I wont miss it one bit, this is PERFECT WEATHER!

 

Yes but if it doesn't rain it can't wash the pollen out of the air and your allergies will blossom into an uncomfortable mess. You'd also run out of the stuff that comes out of those hoses. 

3 hours ago, bluewave said:

Good to see sunny and 60’s here ahead of the next backdoor for tonight and tomorrow. Strong backdoor temperature departure signature for the first week of May in NYC. Milder minimums and cooler highs. 

NYC...max departure...-1.4......min.....+0.6

Keep that front form reaching the area until after midnight so we can break the consecutive days streak. It also makes me wonder if the warmer minimums will be enough to keep the above average temp streak intact. Cooler max's would have to be significantly so for it to change that up.

11 hours ago, Brian5671 said:

missed the rains here-the line did the 7-10 split here which I am not complaining about...

I got a bunch of rain here, 5 miles south got nothing but from central Westchester down it was very wet. 

2 hours ago, Juliancolton said:

I picked up almost an inch last night. Heavy training showers rooted to a mesoscale convergence zone over the river. Terrible.

Strongly agree about the anything-goes lawn. By no means do I knock folks who work hard on their lawns... it's an art form all its own. Not all yards are created equal though, and in mine, the interface between guests and lawn is very limited. If people only ever see it from 100 yards going by at 50 mph, green is green.

 

Eek