We'll be out of town so it's do or die time, if it doesn't rain the entire garden will die. The peppers might make it but everything else is too water intensive, celery, squash, tomatoes, etc.
Out and about around town the car was hovering between 96 and 100 but I can't find anything (reliable) here in the hill above 97 and one that's pretty well sheltered didn't quite get to 90. There were dewpoints as high as 81 on 2 stations but there has been enough breeze that it's not totally unbearable in the shade. My 23 year old kid went for a run
I just had a 2 minute sunshower roll through. I love how the sun fires up the back of storm cells this time of day, it makes it look all black and sinister with splashes of color.
The humidity is gone which is nice but if I didn't know I did it I wouldn't be able to tell that the garden got a good, deep soak yesterday while it was wet from the rain. It is awfully nice out there this morning so get outside and enjoy it.
I won't water the yards, I hesitate to call what I have lawns. I went and added it again and it was 2.3 (including today's .06) since 6/10. Of that only 2 events were over .5 and most were under .1. Those small events are as close to useless as it gets when the soil is duff 6-8" down and it doesn't get past the trees either so effectively I've had 1.6" that mattered.
It was dry but sufficiently moist to get the growing season off to a good start. Then it dried out by the middle of the second week of June and it just keeps getting worse. A few days ago I added it up from two of the closest stations to me and it's under 2" in 6+ weeks. Today looks like it's nothing more than drizzle, wind and clouds unless there's something else later. The reservoirs all seem to be holding strong but the feeder creeks and the Croton River are way down.