gravitylover

I drove up to Rochester today and the smoke got progressively worse. Visibility is well under 10 miles where I am now in Seneca Falls. AQI is over 150 and my eyes hurt.

I'm resisting flipping the switch at night but it might be necessary. It was 54 in my living room this morning. That's enough to make a body achy. Here comes the smoke again

Yeah 1 mile west got pummeled and ~1 mile east got almost an inch of rain in the second round. Nada for me

And that's what happened. I didn't even get .01 but the street is wet. Not so much under the trees The lightning and grey sheet is a mile and a half east, down the hill so I can watch it sliding by. Yay

14 with 42 although I should probably say 18 with 38 so I'm old enough to drink. Showoff

Between the super warm ocean and obviously dry land conditions I'm thinking that eastern Canada is going to have an outsized influence on the east coast pattern the next few months. How would that affect the wind patterns, more days with NE winds than usual? A few around here are down 1-4 feet now with the big one in Westchester still bank full. That won't stay up there for long, New England is pretty dry too. That's hysterical. Not really but...

A severe missed me by 1 mile. Apparently it had 60mph gusts with quarter sized hail. It dark and banging away and windy in the treetops but no biggie. Let's see if this next cell slides by to my east or gets me. It looks to be more intense than the one that missed.

I've been there (and Crescent City) a few times and only seen perfect COC weather. It's actually one of the few regions I'd love to move to when we can (finally) leave NY. I've also been to Seattle a few times and never saw anything other than sunny days.

This is the thickest smoke we've ever had here that I can remember. My memory of stale, hot, humid summer days before catalytic converters is similar. Yuck...

That t-storm rocked the Colorado high country and scared me silly. I was driving on a ridge road watching the light show on the divide a few miles away when all of a sudden the engine revved really high and BANG! The loudest sound and simultaneous flash I've ever heard. I truly thought I was done for. The truck shut off and there was steam and smoke coming from it when I opened my eyes. I got out right in the middle of the road and there was a huge scorch mark on the road and along the passenger side with the paint bubbled off right by the antenna which had turned blue. When I saw my reflection in the window I broke out laughing, my hair was still standing up straight and my beard was a huge poofball. Fukkknn ZAPPP!

Still not a cloud in sight here. I don't think I could have ordered a nicer day.

I flip it on when the house gets to about 60. I hate waking up chilled, it ruins my back for the whole day. It drives me nuts though to run the heat at the end of May.

This cool weather has done wonders for a volunteer parsnip in one of my garden beds. The thing is 3 feet tall and is the happiest root veggie I've ever grown. The real pleasure is I haven't done a thing to it, didn't plant it, haven't trimmed it and haven't watered it more than once. I keep thinking that when I pull it it's gonna be like 3" long

Over performer today, .16. Strangely the soil didn't fully dry after the weekend rains, I guess the cool weather (?), so this really soaked the surface. Now it's cold.

Another .05 overnight. Boy are things gonna grow like mad now... PSA - Watch out as stuff fills in and you have to pull further out to see at corners, the front of the car will be in the line of traffic in some places. Looks like a nice day ahead once it dries out.

Yeah, that's the trick isn't it. Howzabout another inch in a week or so, better if it's not on the weekend though.

Done for a bit I guess. 1.1"

1.1 here

.9 so far with steady moderate+ falling right now. Good soak. Hopefully the front is equally as productive.

I was sittin' on the pot when it happened and I didn't feel anything :shrug: TMI? Too bad.

The smoke sux Gonna be a long fire season... It's going to get worse too, CA has made it really difficult to do prescribed burns and fuel clearing due to Spotted Owl territory. This means all of the new growth from all the moisture the last few months will be ready to burn by midsummer. There are similar issues in places through all of the western states so there's going to be more fuel ready to burn than in previous years. Yay Looks like at my level on the hill it got to 35°, the top stayed above 39 and I found two 33° lows below me.

Hoodie time

The deluges keep the reservoirs full enough that people don't realize how low the soil moisture is.

So who gets shafted?

I'd be ok with it if 20 or so days a month were like this. Ok, maybe 5-8° higher but, yeah.