gravitylover

Haha with these tight gradients you guys are seeing I could only imagine the explosion of emotions it would be if it was so close between 3" and a foot of snow that you could pretty much see it. We would hear the screaming all the way up here

Same here. It has been steady between heavy mist and light rain for a while now. It's not adding up quickly, .06 in 2 hours, but the soaking is nice.

3.4 and still raining lightly. I'd have to go back and add it up again but I think that's more than I've had in total since about mid to late May.

3.3 Looks like back edge is approaching on radar

Just passed 3" a little while ago.

2.9 Looks like the next round ought to get me near 4. I'm surprised. LikeJulian said though, it would have been nice to get it while it would have done the garden some good. I pulled so many things because blight and disease did them in but left most of the bases because I don't turn those beds. The tomatoes started growing again and are 2-3" now and healthy as opposed to the death and destruction from before, so that's nice. Some of the other stuff, like peppers, had stopped producing but have flowers on them this morning. Just like that the plants decided not to give up.

Is there any chance that this moves through by mid afternoon?

Got another .5 in a half hour, up to 2.7 now with steady rain falling.

2.2

I guess I shouldn't have fallen asleep early, I missed that fun. Up to 1.7" now.

Up to 1" now. Yeah, I'm surprised.

I got another good round and *boom* up to almost .7 already. What was the garden is washing onto the patio...

It actually did rain pretty hard for 4 minutes, I timed it. The high spot in the street is already drying after steaming for a few minutes. Yeah, I see some crazy numbers and I'm sorta hoping it's not like that. So much is hardpan and it will run off pretty fast, the savior might be how slowly it's starting. This little initial burst may moisten the surface just enough to help avert disaster but if the streams and piles of debris in my yard from one shower mean anything there's a lot of shit that will move right away. I still think this will be a Dutchess/Columbia/Berkshire Counties jackpot.

Drizzle!

We'll see. It looks like it might start raining here soon but nothing so far (since early June pretty much). Hoping for excessive but not optimistic.

Look at the boundary right now. I know it's supposed to drop but I'm not gonna hold my breath. Thankfully it looks like the places that grow food are getting a nice soaking today.

This shows what I'm talking about pretty well.

^^Hey neighbor. Yup nothing here too. I just got back from another run across the state and the difference between the dry eastern half and WNY is dramatic. Around I81 it starts to green up and west of I390 it's almost normal. There are whole hillsides of bare trees and big brown sections where the trees didn't even bother dropping their leaves before dying or going dormant. IMO the fire danger is being badly underrated.

.26

What's a good source for info on the W of The River fires?

Fire?

It figures, no rain for months and then my birthday is a washout.

20 miles east of me got well over 1" overnight. I'll be close later so I'm gonna drive over there to see some puddles.

I think I'm gonna start planting cactus.

Ooh I got a really nice little sunshower with a great rainbow Less than .01 though