gravitylover

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.

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...

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.

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.

Got wet enough that things were still wet this morning but not enough to not water the garden this morning.

I don't want to say I've gotten used to it but I kind of have. I'd really rather it wasn't so high though but if it isn't going to rain often the plants need this moisture to do their thing so we sacrifice.

Dry until noon down here where I am? That front is taking its sweet time moving E.

So what are the chances of storms popping this afternoon? I want to go out for a ride but don't feel like getting caught in the woods in the rain.

That was some great thunder and heavy rain when the storms came through.

Yeah? I'm not feeling it and if I squint and tilt my head to the left when I'm looking at the radar I can see it moving north of east and sliding by to my north and west. I kind of like the way I'm seeing it but I guess if it's going to clear out again after I'm ok with it.

It was hot but not unbearable. I didn't spend too much time out in direct sunlight though, I'm still too smart to do that In the woods and in the yard it was alright, windows open in the car as often as AC on was nice enough. Ehh... summer. My wife and kidz don't agree Looks like today gets wet and it turns nice for a few days. Good, things are a bit dry and hard and need to be softened up. My garden has been marginally happy this year. Some things are decent but most aren't nearly as productive as I'd hoped. I don't know enough about this stuff but I'm learning. Creating good food that's good for us is a pretty good motivator to get better at it.

Well that soaking sure did dry up in a hurry. My garden was thirsty by 3pm this afternoon.

While it doesn't look like we got much in the LHV it did soak things down nicely. I drove a fair piece of the state yesterday. It started raining on the Taconic at 7:20 and pretty much didn't stop the rest of the 500 miles I covered. It was raining in Old Forge and NW of there, poured in Utica and down through the eastern Fingerlakes and all the way through the Catskills. On the plus side everything is super green and lush. Looks like a warm one coming up the next few days.

You'd rather it was cold, wet and dreary? This is perfect for heavy yard work just think of all the water weight you're losing to sweat and evaporation. I'm down 3 pounds in the last few days.