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I saw some virga and had 11 drops hit the windshield so that was nice...

Yup. It looks like some of these darker clouds have rain falling out of them but (so far) not making it down here.

I've got some really dark clouds floating around and hearing the occasional low rumble but not seeing anything on radar.

Yup, 20 miles from 4" to .05

.22 We were in in NH for the weekend and the dryness between here and there is impressive, as bad as it has been in a long time. In some spots the trees look like early/mid October. I did drive through some incredibly heavy rain in southern NH and MA but it dried up when we got as far west as eastern CT.

I'm looking at the radar and seeing a slot developing. I bet I get well under a half inch out of this incoming terrible storm.

Just one spark...

I actually got enough rain this afternoon for it to register, .01! The ground under trees stayed dry and the rest was dry within 10 minutes of it ending. Nice rainbow on the back side which was nice.

That darker green blob over southeastern Putnam is my hill, I'm on the east side right on the county line. Just to give y'all some perspective of where I am The northern end of that blob is where Drvts is

So many things are dying but the weeds are looking pretty strong

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My new used car doesn't have a dash thermo but I run a gauge that shows live values and at one point when the sun was out it hit 82° Intake Air Temp. I also got a few dozen raindrops so I could test the wipers

Cool clouds this afternoon

I added it up recently and it was under 1.5 and I think I figured pretty well over 10" down since 3/1. Were those showers that only went through on radar all there is for today?

Unbalanced trees are falling over all over the place up here. I haven't lost any yet but two are taking on a pretty good lean and will probably go over sometime soon.

Stuff is dying everywhere throughout the area. I went up to Cape Cod last weekend and it's parched all the way up. This weekend we'll be in N Conway so I'll see what's up in interior New England. My yard is mostly dead. It's

It would have to snow more to balance things out. You'll appreciate more snow, right?

It was 50° up in the hills between Binghamton and Middletown a few hours ago. Mmm, felt good driving along with the windows open. So 30-40% chance of showers Monday and Tuesday huh? Yeah, whatever. Time to give up on the garden and stop abusing our well pump I'll keep the herbs and strawberries going because they're a few years old now but everything else is on its own now.

I don't keep records but my recollection is it started to dry out in mid October. I was well below through your average period and it just keeps drying out. Parched...

I spun the mower and weed whacker through the front yard after that last little bit of moistness just to clean it up. I had a Great Mullein show up in the yard this year, I never watered or even touched it and it got 7 feet tall.

My garden is just about done. Tomatoes, melons, and squash are toast. What few tomatoes that are able to ripen taste like shit and the celery has wilted and stood back up so many times it's woody and tastes salty. The only bright spot so far is peppers and herbs. Even the strawberries in hanging baskets stopped producing and a 5 year old berry patch with blueberry, raspberry and blackberry bushes has all but died. My well water is too hard and I can't run it long enough to properly soak things anyway and I was out of town for 3 days and that was the final straw. All those hours spent on it...

Another 2 or 3 years and it ought to be like that in NJ.

Looks like the storm that came through last night was pretty significant, all the loose debris and stuff was washed into piles and plants that have never had that water weight on them fell over and broke. I was asleep so don't know how long it rained for but it's a fair bit of damage for just .32". Total for the day was .64.

I think we got . 03 Friday and it looks like . 33 today. My garden is half dead now. I'm so bummed, all those hours...

The thing is this time it's dry a foot or more down. It's going to take a few wet weeks with a couple of multi-inch days mixed in to soak things down sufficiently. At this point I expect a terrible foliage season because the flora just can't produce the sugars needed for good color. My beans look like they're growing but they're half dessicated and tough skinned like leather.