gravitylover

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.

Yeah once it dried out things went to hardpan and dust in a hurry, faster than I thought it could that's for sure.

Yeah we're loaded with 'em here this year too. Beautiful morning. Get out there and do something!

@DRVTS check your pm's. I wasn't home while it was raining yesterday but my wife said it came down pretty hard for a while. Today we got a heavy t-storm, no lightning but a few good rumbles and a few minutes of crazy heavy rain. Looks like it was ~.3" combines for the 2 days. It sure does feel summery now doesn't it? After another long, cool, wet spring I didn't think it would ever get here. Things have dried out pretty nicely but, man, the undergrowth is for real this year.

Yeah I drove through your area and it was barely wet compared to areas just a bit further east. West of you it was dry. There were some wonderful towers and cloud formations but almost entirely over the higher terrain so Rt 17 was dry the whole way. That Canadian smoke though WOW. The light was so muted and understated for the last 3 days in upstate and western NY but the glare was intense. Sometimes it was almost too dark for sunglasses but you needed them to deal with the glare. If you haven't been to far western NY you need to go, the place is beautiful. There's nothing out there, a few neat small towns and a whole bunch of quiet with some fun roads to drive. Ellicotville is neat and worth a few days of brewery visits, mt biking and fishing. It's a mountain town without real mountains and a great outdoorsy vibe.

67* feels nice after the last few days

Looks like I got .2. There were a few stations around me that got as much as .5. It was a popcorn kinda day and some places stayed dry while others got soaked.

Ooh if you're looking for a new bike I might have a smokin' deal for you. I'm the Norco rep for NY and I have a demo bike that I need to turn back into $$. I got it just before my heart attack so it only has 4 miles on it, the thing is better than new because the brake pads are bedded in properly. I'll make a pretty serious effort to get to you if you want to take it for a ride. It just poured here, well Danbury but it's pretty close to home so good enough These tropical convective popcorn t-storms are always entertaining.

So much great riding in that zone. Uggh, I'm jealous. If you get a chance head over to Northfield and hit the Norwich U trails and some of the adjoining stuff. Yeah this daughter is a pretty serious masochist, she goes for it with most athletic endeavors. Already had a pretty good shot of rain and thunder this morning. It's sooper muggy out there now.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

If you want an on again off again challenging trail sort of close to home try the loop around the lake there. Some of it is just simple doubletrack work roads but there are super tight and techy narrow bits and some of the mud holes are impressive. As mentioned above, don't forget the tick spray. The views are worth the effort Nice but really warm and humid day going on out there. I hope that's not the theme of the summer.

I was up in the 'Daks and Plattsburgh yesterday. It was cool and very early spring like up there, above ~1k it's just turning into spring now. The trees are just leafing out and from all the rain everything is soggy(er than here). When we finished tiding yesterday in Ausable Chasm area the storm rolling off the mountains were inspiring, deep scuds dropping everywhere and they were black as night and the outflow front was impressive. Good Stuff! Did it rain down here yesterday? What about earlier today, by the time I got home around 7 it was nice out. @Juliancolton did you get rain this afternoon? I rode at Lake Tagkhanic State Park and it was dry while riding but radar looks like it got wet after I left there. BTW if you get to check out the trails there do it, it's a nice long loop around the lake with some interesting spots and conditions along the way. Bring tick spray

Looks like those showers that were going to ruin the afternoon aren't going to be a factor

Well, we got 25 hours into the month. That's a pretty good stretch without rain.