gravitylover

Well that was fun. I got caught in the torrential downpour in Danbury and drove through it most of the way home as it pivoted and slid into a SW>NE line that set up just south and east of me. I got to watch it slide by, rumbling and grumbling while backlit by bright sun. Unfortunately I only got .12, not much help for the low soil moisture situation.

Heavy rain and big thunder overnight. .4 in just a few minutes. The town hwy dept garage 1.5 miles away recorded .78!

FWIW, the ticks are terrible this year, absolutely terrible. We have an expert here that might be able to give us more details, maybe @JustinRP37 has some good data for us.

Seeing it laid out like that is interesting. I move around a lot and some areas seem to handle low soil moisture better than others. N and W are so much more heavily forested that it makes more of a difference.

Meant to say less than 70% so down 30. I looked recently and Q1 was down about 4", so not met winter but close. You also got quite a bit more frozen precip than I did.

So your unofficial definition is more important than reality and you continue to defend it? That's pretty arrogant. Go 6-8" down and the soil is holding less than 30% of the moisture it should be and as that gets sucked dry by all the foliage doing it's thing everything dries out from the bottom up if it doesn't rain every few days. It's going to look green but it's constant stress on those plants. It's at least 8-9" down since September and only had about 30% of the normal winter precip. My unofficial definition of drought apparently syncs up with that of NOAA because their map shows D1.

Heh, oh yeah, that t-storm was pretty good. Thunder rumbled for 7 or 8 minutes nonstop leading up to it then torrential rain, some wind and lightning then, *poof* trailing thunder and it's gone.

I've given up trying to explain because I'm tired of LB arguing there's no drought. Today's 1 inch is being sucked up by plants before it has a chance to soak in, it's still dry 6" down here too. Anyway... I'm going to set up a soaker hose on a timer for the garden. I have way too much of ME invested in it to let it wither when I go to Cape Cod for July 4th week.

I dunno man, there's an absolute explosion of greening up and leafing out happening RIGHT NOW. Buds that were just gradually popping the last 2 days are open, dry dusty patches in the yard have grass(?) growing today and lots of flowers on a variety of strawberries opened about an hour ago.

It needs to rain twice a week, especially in the spring when everything is leafing out. Overnight rain would be ideal.

Because 21 year olds are so much wiser and their actions are always so well thought out...

So, my wife has a booth at a craft fair in Parsippany tomorrow and I keep trying to tell her it's going to rain, maybe not an all out washout but it's not just a few passing showers that might miss. What say ye, waste of time wet or is her optimism justified?

So what are we thinking for Saturday? Will it be more wet than dry?

I hope so. Right now it's mid 30s,windy, flurrying and just generally unpleasant. You can keep it.

It's a few inches over for me. I had a few tenths of crusty goo not 4".

Meh. I had a dense coating of goop that was pretty crunchy for a while but now it's mostly just wet. Forsythias with little icicles are cool.

I had white rain for a little while.

You just don't get it.

Pretty cool how we can go from tinder dry to sogginess with mushrooms and such everywhere.

Yuck

It was about 50° for a few minutes but the wind hurt, now it's overcast and 41° with a solid 9mph breeze. I know it won't but it feels like snow. Yay spring.

I guess you don't live somewhere with lots of tinder dry brush and trees... Things were bone dry up here and now with everything leafing out and greening up, if we don't sustain at least average precip for the next month or so we'll go right back to dangerously dry with high fire danger. But, you can go on thinking that way and we'll listen to you tell us how terrible it is for allergies while we are concerned with the next brush fire that might be in our neighborhoods.

Not here. Well sorta, 2 of the rainy days might get over 60.

It was nice to wake up to a snow coating on the cars. Last for the season?

.45 and 41°. Yuck.