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Holy heavy rain Batman! I don't often get woken up by rain but geez that was really something. 

I gave up on nearly all organized sports years ago. I barely pay attention to the pro levels of the sports I do partake in. I enjoy watching pro tennis, play golf but get bored watching it and sometimes I'll watch a bike race but more to see the area they're in than because I give a hoot about the race. Competitive skiing is fun to watch but most other winter sports bore me. Basically I like the individual sports and team sports are annoying.

Not much rain here, the ground is pretty much dry under the trees.

5 hours ago, Hitman said:

For the record, it could not be nicer out right now.

Yup high 60's-70 are just about perfect for a ride so that's what I did  Unfortunately we chose a place that got hammered by those tornadoes last year and it was still a mess of downed trees and badly overgrown trails I assume because they're blocked further up and not being used much anymore. I'm going to have to apply for permission to go in and do some cleanup work, these are trails I helped build ~20 years ago when nobody around here rode mt bikes yet.

True but it still goes down as a rain day in the total count and it keeps soil moisture up. This month has been weird though as we've had 19 days with rain but the ground surface has mostly dried out. The wind has helped a lot and the trees leafing out seem to have sucked up a lot more than I thought they would a month ago. Trail.comditions are awesome around the area right now.

So I'm at 19 or 20 out of 23 days so far this month have been wet at some point in the 24 hour period and April was 22 of 30. I'm really tired of it but on the upside the forest has really stabilized and for the most part there is very little mud out there. The ground has this wonderful resilience to it and the trails are in fine shape which makes the mountain biker in me very happy. @Hitman we need to coordinate and ride some time soon, me and my e-mtb are enjoying the heck out of our time together in the woods.

Alright so all it's going to take this year is a tropical system or two to annihilate last years record rainfall totals. I wonder if last year also had a record number of days with measurable rainfall, I bet we're on track to break whatever the old record is. I'm at 18 of 20 days this month and last month was 22 of 30, I didn't count the winter months but should have and I don't feel like going back to do the research now.

I got some pretty serious rain a few times tonight. The most recent batch was hardcore enough that it woke me up with thunder and lightning. It looks like the earlier round was more significant north of here. There's another round incoming that looks like another soaker.

I haven't ridden out there at all yet but will at least a few times this year now that I have a few solid accounts out that way. The Fingerlakes area has always intrigued me so I'm looking forward to it. I have a thing with my wife next weekend but don't remember which day but yeah, let me know when you're riding and if I can I'll meet up. Yup this bike is silly good fun, I was giggling the whole time once I got used to the extra weight.

I drove right past the school while it was going on to visit the bike shop up the hill from the campus. Wouldn't it have been funny if we had run into each other there rather than on the mt bike trails here? When are we going to ride? I finally got my e-mtb so can ride again and complete the heart attack recovery on my own terms.

Boy it was nice to get out in the woods today. Soil moisture is super high but there was surprisingly little mud after all the rain we've had the last 45 days. 

I made a run out Rt 17 (I can't seem to call it I86 yet) to Corning yesterday and saw some super heavy rain in the morning then temps over 80 in Binghamton in the afternoon. On the way home there was an absolutely awesome rainbow filling my windshield for about an hour as I was following the rain through Orange County to the Bear Mountain Bridge. Looks like we may end up with a dry weekend for a change  

Did anybody see how much snow they're going to get out west? Geez...

I saw low 70's today, did anybody get to 75?

We couldn't go a full 24 hours without some rain could we? It rained last night for a few hours, both before and after midnight so yesterday and today will both go down as having measurable precip. That means that after a multi week stretch that ended last week we're now back to 6 consecutive days for this round. It looks like tomorrow is a lock for some rain at some point too. 

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. 

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. 

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

And it's pouring again

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.

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.

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.

^^ 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?