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I was in Syracuse this afternoon and it was 90* and super humid. In Toronto at 10:30pm it was still 79* when I walked into my hotel

I've always wondered why some trees turn early and others don't. Sometimes there can be two of the same species just a few feet apart and they will react completely differently. Another thing I'm seeing this year that's really disturbing is a very high number of standing dead trees, some really large ones too. I don't know what type of trees they are but something leads me to think Ash and it's the emerald ash borer damage I've been hearing so much about.

We're thinking 9/5 for our next family beach day outing. Most schools go back that day, some the day before so it should be pretty much empty. I need to get out to the east end of LI for some work stuff so we'll probably go to Montauk. Do they still have the lifeguards on duty at that point on weekdays?

It's kinda nice out there this morning  

I almost feel guilty appreciating it knowing what some of my friends are dealing with out west. AQI ratings between 150 to as high as 490 

I wasn't expecting rain this morning but... here it is. 

Yeah yeah copy and paste... 

Closest local mesonet site has .75" for last night but the 3 closest WU sites all have well over 1", they are between 1.3 and 1.48". I know it rained steadily for several hours with a few embedded heavier periods but I am surprised to see it so far above 1". Unfortunately KDXR didn't report any rain at all but does have ~5-6 hours of rain in their observations so that station is useless (again). 

I'm really looking forward to things drying out here over the next week or so  

Another fun episode of microclimates doing their thing and this range of higher hills that I'm in squeezing out every last drop.

Closest local mesonet site has .75" for last night but the 3 closest WU sites all have well over 1", they are between 1.3 and 1.48". I know it rained steadily for several hours with a few embedded heavier periods but I am surprised to see it so far above 1". Unfortunately KDXR didn't report any rain at all but does have ~5-6 hours of rain in their observations so that station is useless (again). 

I'm really looking forward to things drying out here over the next week or so  

6 hours ago, Will - Rutgers said:

Good lord.

Looks like we're finally exiting this multi-week pattern of endless pop-up severe storms.  Tuesday night's rain seems like a more orderly frontal passage event rather than spontaneous atmospheric combustion from 100 degree dews and sea breeze fronts.

Yup. Ick...

Boy I sure hope you're right.

When you run over them with the lawnmower they pop and spew spores all over like smoke. I turned my mower over the other day to clean underneath and they were growing in there too.

And... it's raining again

Yeah after the March and May storms that brought down so many trees around here as people were cutting them out and cleaning up they got fined and penalized for doing too much and opening up the potential for too much sunlight to get through to the water and potentially raising the water temperature. Sometimes there really wasn't much choice because it was so tangled up. Apparently they were supposed to leave the mess in their yards because it was within 100 feet of the water course. F that...

If you were going to do a beach day on the east end of LI would you want to be there tomorrow, Monday, or Tuesday? I can go either day.

2 hours ago, IrishRob17 said:

The debate over how much taxes are paid aside, do these storm drains need heavy equipment to be cleared out or could folks help themselves if they took a few minutes to clean them themselves?  When I lived in a house that had a storm drain in front of it I kept it clear year round because I knew it would flood my neighbors if it was blocked. The town would get to it eventually but it only took me a minute or two. Same goes for shoveling fire hydrants out after a good snowstorm. 

The obvious part of two of the drains were cleaned this spring but they didn't snake between them and down the hill to the outlet so it backs up and overflows all over the place. They used to snake it and blow it out but it was a big procedure because the outlet is about 400 feet away and ~50 down the hill so they haven't done it in a few years. There's also some debate about how it drains into a creek that's part of the NYC watershed.

~.8" yesterday.  Two day total of 2.7. 

See edit above

My neighbor has had to pump water out of his pool a few times a week for the last 5 weeks or so. There are 3 storm drains on my block and they're all blocked up with crap and the properties below them are getting wrecked, washed out yards and driveways getting undermined when the water rages through. The town said we don't pay enough in taxes for them to care   

Another ~1.9" today

edit: After the local mesonet site updated it looks like it was actually .86 so it must have had a bunch from the Friday night episode still in there when I looked. Still, it's 2.7 for 2 days.

Talk about fringe city

Yeah boy that was some rain last night eh! I got just shy of 2" between about 6pm and midnight in several intense rounds. The constant rolling thunder and lightning was a great show too. My backyard almost dried out enough to mow it for the first time in a few weeks before this but now it's back to sink in 2-3" if you step off the patio. It's getting thick out there  #bringbackthedrought

That was some serious rain yesterday and last night. I got just shy of 2" between 6 and about midnight in several intense rounds. The incessant rolling thunder and near constant lightning was pretty cool. I actually stepped outside to listen to the thunder just rolling around in the hills for a while because it doesn't sound like that very often.

You guys that want good lightning ought to come up here. It's been crackling, rumbling and grumbling consistently for an hour and a half now. Short rounds of very heavy rain started around 6 and by 9 it became mostly steady moderate to heavy and hasn't let up since. 

Between the smoke and humidity it's pretty unpleasant out there this morning. 

Yuck, this air quality is rotten. 

Looks like we're gonna get banged around pretty good in a few hours, 35dbz returns headed this way. 

What a difference in rainfall around the town from the storm that moved through this afternoon. It came in hard and fast with torrential rates, couldn't see across the parking lot at Stop and Shop for about 4 minutes and very heavy for about 10 minutes overall with lots of lightning and strong winds. 1.5 miles WSW of where I was there was .03", a few blocks from where I was .24" and 2 miles ENE was .55". Strangely enough none of those 3 stations showed much for wind, 10 or less, but I know that it was easily over 20 and probably closer to 30mph gusts for 3-5 minutes and the lightning tracker I just looked at didn't show anything in the area but we all saw it with one strike in the shopping center lot that set off car alarms. Anyway, great quick hitter storm that was fun to be outside but under a roof in. 

What's with this storm moving WSW from this morning? Yesterday it was slightly offshore then moved north and inland and now it's along the NY/PA border. Is it going to keep moving that way and then get kicked east and out of here going mostly south of us or...? It's doing a big loop.

^^ I would think that would be dependent on what's going on at that moment. If it's spewing you'll see it from a reasonable distance, if it's night time I expect that you'd see the ground glowing from fairly far out also. From most of what I've seen it's just oozing or a smoky gas release so that would be hard to see unless it's a really smoky moment.