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33 minutes ago, jm1220 said:

Thankfully the Rockaways to Long Beach did get maybe a half inch from the storms that grazed the barrier islands, but seen it happen many times. Can be boring as hell for months behind the seabreeze in the marine layer. 

I think that growing up in Oceanside the immediate south shore summer dryness badly skewed my perception of summer weather in the northeast. My memories are of pleasant, mostly sunny days where you just went and did stuff outside all the time. My time was almost entirely spent south of Merrick Rd and mostly more than a mile S of that and daily watering was definitely a thing, you could easily tell who didn't (like me ) 

9 minutes ago, Maureen said:

Ugh. Guess it’s good for the mushroom bog I’ve apparently started here, Carteret Caps. 
 

 

Ha! My garden is having a pretty good mushroom year too. It's a sign of healthy soil so I'm good with it. Thankfully our dog isn't a "taster" and pretty much stays away from them and the slime molds.

Dry here so far and it looks like I may split the uprights again. Didn't think I'd be watering the garden today.

26 minutes ago, Sundog said:

I peaked at 97 degrees, now 96 degrees. 

96/74, what a pleasant afternoon. 

It's not so bad once you get used to it. You just go inside where it's air conditioned.

17 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

yeah weird-the storms so far are north of there-the one near Peekskill is a monster

It's passing by to my S/SW, dark clouds moved in here with lots of thunder not too far away. There's big stuff off toy NE too.

Just a small sample of my brilliance 

7 hours ago, jm1220 said:

This happened in the middle of the night, the storms stalled out because there’s no trough nearby to expedite getting Barry’s remnants out, and the terrain/rock hard ground problem exacerbated it. It had zero to do with “weather modification”. I wasn’t paying enough attention to see if the NWS dropped the ball and the funding cuts are obviously a huge outrage and problem, but this is KNOWN to be a major problem in Central TX especially. There was 16” of rain in one morning in Austin from the remnants of Hurricane Patricia in Oct 2015 which is bar none the heaviest rain I’ve ever seen. Likely even puts Ida to shame. The Austin to San Antonio corridor is known to get tons of rain in a short period of time, but is otherwise pretty dry. And when it falls over the limestone Hill Country, it rampages down the hills into small creeks and as we see here, even the larger rivers can be overwhelmed fast. 

Hmmm I guess that's why there's all those mostly flat, easy to build on FLOODPLAINS along those bigger rivers. I guess that got away from them.

10 minutes ago, lee59 said:

I hope so, we keep missing and N.J. and Hudson Valley keep getting.

I got over 2" that one day last week, I wasn't here for it, but other than that I've gotten it a few hundredths at a time. Today is at .1 (so far).

2 hours ago, BxEngine said:

 Ill never leave lol

I'll warn @Rjay

And that just spurred a whole line of thought... Some sort of collector at a significant height above the ground above a vertical farm with some sort of spinny power generator turned by the water on it's way down. Food, power and water and they could be just about anywhere. Maybe the first floor has a green market selling fresh produce to the neighborhood too. 

3 hours ago, bluewave said:

The treetops look like they are at a similar height to the anemometer. So they could also be serving as a barrier in front of the equipment to lessen the winds.

The trees were much lower in 1974 when the record 78 mph gust occurred. That was the strongest Nor’easter of the early 1970s. The winds were very loud in Long Beach with extensive coastal flooding. 

My elementary school in the LB West End still had water in the street from the tidal surge when the ocean met the bay in spots earlier that day. Plenty of sand and big puddles in the streets around my school. It was a really cool school bus ride that morning seeing all the sand and water still on West Park ave. 

If that's the same one I remember around then we had deep standing water for a day or three in central Oceanside. I remember it because I had to repack the hubs on my bike from riding through it, back and forth, over and over..., when it was that deep.

Looks like the Ithaca area got hammered and Kingston is getting it right now. Rhinebeck is gonna get it good in a few minutes.

1.9 so far 

1 hour ago, donsutherland1 said:

These developments provide good examples of how the dense foliage has changed the relationship of Central Park relative to the City's other locations and Newark. The problem is cited in the NOAA's inventory of stations. Unfortunately, the problem is not addressed. Thus, Central Park becomes less representative of the City's actual climate and, instead, an experiment that demonstrates the cooling impact of trees. 

Well, since nearly all other climate experiments and research has been squashed we should be happy ours will be ignored and be more likely to continue unimpeded. 

Over the last few days I set up a drip irrigation system for the garden because we'll be out of town for a week. Now we're out and it feels weird to be turning it on when I'm 4 hours away. I sure hope the critters didn't mess with it too much and the water is going where it's supposed to. 

Nice little round of moderately heavy rain passing thru. 

A little rain this morning was nice. Cool, cloudy and windy feels good after the last few days.

41 minutes ago, Sundog said:

Love Ocean Parkway 

One of the Top 5 roads in the State. Possibly top 3 

13 minutes ago, Sundog said:

Where's @forkyfork? I thought he liked this garbage 

"... odd man dancing around in a bathing suit last seen spinning across the park..." 

91/79

80/75 with an overnight low of 75°. 

94/82 and a few local stations on westerly aspects of the hills are 98-99/85. My yard faces easterly but open to the west and it's unbearable after a few minutes. 

I think the station a few blocks from me that I usually reference, cooked itself a little while ago. Now I have to drive around and verify a few other sitings as things have grown since I last did it, but the town highway garage a mile away shows 93/81. There are quite a few local stations in the upper 90s and some showing DPs in the upper 80s, the shaded ones are all hovering around 90. 

LB, you've never seen ground haze? Are you just becoming self aware and learning to observe and understand your environment in real time? You should probably refrain from putting your every thought out into the ether...

Every local personal station by me is now over 90/81, the best situated stations are 93-97/81-86 depending on what size of the hill they're on.

Nope, near the top of one of the bigger hills in the area. The closest water is a pond a few blocks away. Currently 93/86 

90/84