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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 

10 hours ago, IrishRob17 said:

Oh, someone has jokes I see! Thanks, I’m 21… with 30 year’s experience. 

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

4 hours ago, rclab said:

Happy Birthday Rob. May you and your love be quality active while you enjoy the celebration of  the tri-centennial,  in the decade of your golden anniversary.  Oh, and I have 55 years experience. As always ….

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3 hours ago, Roger Smith said:

 

My idea for the summer pattern in general is that it may be prone to severe heat waves in central states and the western interior, and that the east will alternate between near average and hot spells with a bit of a westerly rather than south-westerly flow bias which can mean a rather dry regime, but no doubt with a few interruptions. 

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? 

2 hours ago, SnoSki14 said:

I don't see reservoirs getting too low but aesthetically it's gonna look dry for sure especially if we keep dodging rain chances

A few around here are down 1-4 feet now with the big one in Westchester still bank full. 

48 minutes ago, TWCCraig said:

Tons of new fires popping up, now in eastern Canada. A lot of places, arguably a large chunk of North America are experiencing drier than normal conditions, and places north of here are well above average with 90's well into Canada. Tons of fuel for fires to develop and keep going. Only places that have been wetter than normal are the extreme Southeast and just east of the Rockies. I don't think I've ever seen so many fires burning in eastern Canada, western yes, but eastern Canada is typically cooler and wetter in the spring. All we can hope for is some rain!

That won't stay up there for long, New England is pretty dry too. 

15 minutes ago, JustinRP37 said:

We got more ice out of that thunderstorm than we did all winter haha

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. 

1 hour ago, Brian5671 said:

Eureka CA--every day it's in the 60's and it's often misty/drizzle/fog.  

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... 

17 hours ago, SACRUS said:

 

 

1990 - Afternoon and evening thunderstorms produced severe weather from north central Colorado to the northern half of Texas. Severe thunderstorms spawned four tornadoes, and there were seventy reports of large hail or damaging winds. Midday thunderstorms produced wind gusts to 90 mph at Hobart, OK, and produced up to three and a half inches of rain in eastern Colorado in four hours. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

 

 

 

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! 

5 hours ago, Stormlover74 said:

I was surprised Upton went complete sunshine for today but I guess we'll see

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. 

58 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

Nice and chilly this morning

Hoodie time

15 hours ago, jm1220 said:

That why when everyone was miserable I said we need to bank it when we can. That’s the story these days-deluge then long dry spells. 

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

13 hours ago, SRRTA22 said:

 

1 hour ago, nycwinter said:

sun is so warm these days  i wish earth was tidal locked one side facing the sun. the other side in perpetual darkness..

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. 

Nice shot

With overnight temps in the 40s it's kind of necessary, even 50s makes this fat old old body achy. 

The sky is this weird color. I got so used to grey...