gravitylover

That looks to be moving pretty quickly. What are the chances most of it rolls through overnight rather than during the day tomorrow?

Holy fog weatherkids I can see across the street but not much further than that. It's a relatively thin ground layer though because there's a distinct blue tinge to the sky and this weird eery bright glow from the sun.

I saw the temp on the dash hit 87 this afternoon in Danbury but it was mostly 84-86 between Queens and there with low 80's by the bridge. around 3:30. Not looking forward to a bunch more rain on Tuesday, see what y'all can do about keeping it away would ya...?

But as the sun came back out the last few days my lawn exploded! Everything here has greened back up but fall is definitely starting to take hold as there is color in the trees and leaves on the ground.

No, one is secondary ed and the other is an English major. We were just there yesterday to watch one of them in her tennis match against the girls from my old college, it's only 25 minutes from home so we're there pretty often.

WOW at some of the rain totals. I've seen a few over 30" already and it's still pouring and will be for another 10-12 hours. Woof...

I didn't know that. Are there before and after pictures somewhere?

Yeah the trails have been carpeted in it too. I think the excessive moisture and attendant high yields of good food have been 'good' for them, it doesn't help (hurt?) that the deer population has exploded.

Yeah it's weird, there's all this blue stuff up there and it makes you squint if you look out to the ESE.

You can still see the scars from that event all over the place. The most obvious is going up Rt 4 east out of Rutland but there are some spots where there are trees stacked like cordwood across creeks but they're 15 feet above the regular water level.

In my experience yes, the ground just turns to jello and trees flop over if you look at them sideways for a while after the storm has passed. You also get trees that were on the edge of being unhealthy and they soak it up like a sponge and branches randomly fall for a while afterwards too. You'll also see streets get wavy when big trucks drive past if the underlying road bed isn't thick and properly built.

IME it is very dry there for a good part of the year, I've only been there in June and July but I've never seen more than a few clouds in the sky and temps over 80*. As with most of the Pacific coast the days start out grey but it's low level fog that burns off by ~10am, that's why it's so lush from about Santa Barbara north into Canada and the Redwoods are able to grow to such staggering heights even though it's so dry for so many months.

My kids go to school there now. I might have to go this year if the wife doesn't already have something planned for me that day.

Chances are you won't see anything like that again for a long, long time. That was something truly amazing. The rain gauge in Fahnestock St Park recorded over 15" of rain that afternoon and most of the area along the Taconics got 14 or more. I don't remember the numbers down in Poughkeepsie but I want to say it was over 12" especially in the hills just east of town. The only other time I've seen rain anywhere near that heavy was in Cordova AK in July of 1989 when we got 11" in just a few hours in town and near 14" at the top of the mountains right above town. If I never see rainfall rates like these two again it will be ok, the devastation that much water in hilly terrain creates is overwhelming and you're absolutely powerless to do anything other than watch. Seeing 60 foot tall trees getting tossed and splintered like matchsticks and watching cars get picked up and washed into ravines is scary stuff

^^ It's amazing how much more rain I got here from Floyd than the city got, nearly 10" more! I don't remember the total from Irene but I think it was also considerably more than the 7" on that list.

Every time I try to explain this to people they tell me I'm wrong

Here it's the mist, it's so thick it might as well be raining.

I turn the tunes up, it drowns out the wind noise You can keep it

Yeah I much prefer keeping the windows open in the car but unless you're moving at a decent clip it's so unpleasant that AC is still necessary. Disturbing...

When we think we've had a lot of rain I can't help but think of the guy in NC that posted in their Florence thread last night that he is at 103" so far for the year. I couldn't believe it when i saw it but he confirmed it. Can you imagine...

I'm ~40 miles west of you and they've been thick here. I haven't seen any in a few days now. I think the cool temps finally put them down for the season.

I was north and east of you in CT today and drove through some pretty heavy rains. There was a lot of water on the roads north of Fairfield and some creeks overflowing and running across the roads.

I ran into quite a few heavy downpours around western CT today. There was a fair bit of water on the road in a lot of places, creeks are bank full and there's lots of deep standing water filling the low spots. One thing that is kind of scary is how many (really) big trees are leaning precariously over roads and power lines just waiting for a strong breeze to bring them down. You'd think these electric companies would have learned after last winter and the May storm to take these things down. I think it's time to keep 5 or 10 gallons of gas always ready to go into the generator. I wish I could get ethanol free gas near me so I didn't have to use Sta-Bil.

103"? WOW.

In the latest visible shot this really is a beautiful storm. Knowing (approximately) what's going to happen over the next few days I hate appreciating it but I can't help it. Someone on the north side of the Chesapeake area-MD/DEL/NJ coast is getting a heckuva surf day today.