gravitylover

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.

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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

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.