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38 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Probably graupel/small hail?

This is probably the heaviest burst of rain I had all warm season.

Well it was definitely pretty large ice pellets. I didn't see any lightning or hear thunder and really didn't look at radar closely so I wasn't sure but now that I see Alex had a thunderstorm it was definitely convective

47F  Just had a quick heavy shower with lots of sleet.

15 minutes ago, dan11295 said:

That's some of the first video I have seen in the landfall zone. You can tell by how the trees were snapped and the overturned vehicles that extreme winds were experienced. 

The video with all the trees stripped was from Bluefields organic blueberry farm.  They are 1/2 mile inland on a hill.  The towns around them must be wiped off the map.  

16 minutes ago, eyewall said:

If I ever had that chance I would have my drone for the eye to punch above any low clouds to get the stadium.

Long time no see.... Yup, that would be a drone video that has never been done and it would go viral.

I was in Plymouth, NH today which is one town north of where I live.   I decided to fly the drone over the Pemigewasset River.  The river is basically just stagnant bodies of water.  I could not see any flow. The first picture is where the river normally floods.  Amazing drought.  Finally, things look to change.  I'm glad we will get some water into the system before the surface freezes.  Also, there has been no real foliage season to speak of.

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

Not as bad here, but 4.04” since 8/1 isn’t great. 

About .15" from the past storm brings me up to about the same as you.  4.09"  since 8/1

Enjoyed my .13" last night.  Just windy and raw.  Streams are basically dry.  Drought continues on and on....

1 hour ago, powderfreak said:

I have an aversion to hyperbole but… this has to be the worst foliage season I can ever remember up here.  The leaf drop is crazy fast and the color just never got there.

Usually the leaves die spectacularly… this year they just seemed to die ha.

I agree.  A couple of days ago I had to drive down to PA.  I went west and down I 91.  Very little color.  Franconia Notch had some good color the weekend before this past one.  

Meanwhile, your heading to the Outer Banks this weekend.  GFS now has a 988mb low sitting just off the coast.  Could be some tough going down there with flooding.  More houses into the ocean?

83.2F  today!   Foliage update:  We had pretty good color coming on before our big rain event the other day.  Now for whatever reason the colors are very muted.  We drove up to Franconia Notch and there was not much color until we got into the Lincoln/ North Woodstock area.  Once in the notch, it seemed to be around peak.  Not vibrant colors but definitely pretty darn good.  There was very little traffic and the parking lots at Cannon did have cars but not near full.  It was a spectacular day.  Of course, by Columbus Day weekend when the crowds arrive there will mostly just be sticks.  Here is a picture from my phone without any post-processing.

Another beautiful day.  The foliage is weird or maybe it's just me being weird.  The colors were coming on strong just before the rain 2 days ago. We did have some leaf fall during the storm but not very much.  Now the tree leaves seem more green.  I don't think that is possible but perhaps it's just what was turning colors did fall off the trees.  

Looks like things are about over here. I'll double check tomorrow but I believe we're at 2.78 in. That's more rain than has fallen in the last 3 months. I wonder if they'll be time for the brown grass to Green up a little bit before the heavy Frosts set in

Rainstorm is over.   .08"   That brings me to .28" for September after .35" in August.   I wonder if I got 1" on Thursday, if that would even get any flow going in the streams?

.21"  this event.   .56"  August and September

Bring on the rain.  First picture was June 16th.

1 minute ago, CoastalWx said:

Scott,  to make it worse June was very dry after the rain on June 6/7th.   1.76"  June after the good rain the first week of the month. 

.04"  overnight

.34"  August

1.43"  July

23 hours ago, dendrite said:

One of mine has bad blight at the base. I need to mudpack it or cut it down. I posted some pics in this thread.

Have you had flowers yet? 

No flowers this season.  I actually have an older Chestnut tree down in our lower field that I planted about 2 years earlier than these.  It is supposed to be blight resistant too.  It didn't flower this season, but is about 4 feet taller than the one I pictured.

Brian,  do you remember?  We got these Chestnut tree saplings when they were like 10" tall.  How many years ago was that?  I have several growing, but I should have planted them closer for pollination when they get bigger.

40 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Hopefully the quarter inch+ gives it a little life back.

We scored big.  First we got .09" this morning and with a shower last hour another .21".  I don't know how far that would get into the soil but now I have the sprinklers on.  Maybe with a bit of moisture in the topsoil this will help a bit more.  By the way 2 of those chestnut seedlings we planted several years ago are doing great.  

I have a question about grass dormancy.  I have never had the SW part of my lawn burn out like this.  Just crunchy brown grass.  Large areas of 0% green.  If we don't get any substantial rain soon with little time for green up this season, will my lawn come back next year?  If it is 100% brown?  I guess I can have it overseeded, it's a large area. 

So far in August I have had .007" of rain.  In July I had 1.43"  but it was all nickels and dimes with no one shower bringing more than .25".   For June, I had a bit more than 3" but half of that was in the first week of the month.  

Our grass is brown and shrubs are wilting.  Even lilacs.  Lots of early leaf drop too.  I'm glad we went into the summer with the water table being okay but the surface is amazingly dry.  I think about farmers back in the day without deep wells and no way to irrigate crops.  It must have been so scary back then, worrying about having enough food to last the winter.

My July rainfall was 1.43".   On August 1 I received .01".   Scored big time this morning with .06".  

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

79.3/63

The visibility is improved but there still seems to be some residual haze in the air and aloft. 

Vis is better but still lots of smoke.  I can see the sunrays from the Cu.  We had a brief popup shower just west of air but otherwise dry, dry, dry.  (Tell Lisa I said hi) 

Good day view and this morning but not a cloud to be found

1 hour ago, powderfreak said:

It has been ongoing for several years now.  I don’t remember anything like it either in terms of multi-year persistence.

Can see any time there’s a NW flow or trough in our area it’s a straight conveyor belt of smoke from the Canadian fires out in the prairies.

Since buying this house in Central NH in 1989 I can say that this is definitely a new phenomenon over the past several years.