Juliancolton

We doldrums

Sounds nice. It's been a solid first 1/3 of summer in terms of weather, with plenty of bright, seasonably warm days and just enough rain to keep everything green and fresh.

Stunning fireworks at Lake Carmel tonight, as usual. It's a definite sleeper contender for best display in the HV.

It's always cool when you can see lightning from multiple states away.

Within the last couple years, I believe, NY started counting hours of instruction instead of days. The benefit is that you can still add to the yearly total on days when you don't reach the 5 or 5.5-hour threshold. The drawback is that if you aren't extremely careful in managing this new flexibility, you can end up short 1 hour at the end of the year...

Heavy convective shower chucking it down atm, cutting sunset and my evening patio cigar short. Now over an inch of rain on the day.

Not sure about swept, but they certainly got carried away when they bought that Land Rover...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ---- NWS Eastern Region Headquarters, Bohemia, NY — On the heels of a years-long campaign to keep motorists out of hazardous flooding situations, the NWS has acknowledged its folly in attempting to craft a mnemonic device without first consulting someone who knows even the first thing about rhyming. This conspicuous oversight doomed the previous disaster mitigation mantra – Turn Around, Don't Drown – to a fate of universal mockery and defiance. No longer content to endure merciless derision from our own families, we set about to overhaul our flash flood guidance. After conferring with America's finest psychologists, first responders, and wise-asses in lifted pickup trucks, the NWS is proud to announce its new Tweet-optimized flash flooding tagline: Go Fast, Create A Bow Wave™

Sun's coming out now after .61" of rain. Might have a decent afternoon before more showers move in this evening.

They do issue one-time permits for the Mid-Hudson Astronomical Association to hold their monthly meetups there, so the short answer is yes, although I believe it's only for groups and needs to be approved some time in advance. As far as I'm aware, there's no corresponding (official) avenue for individuals to obtain the same special privileges. Light pollution will handily eliminate Milky Way viewing in the Hudson Valley within the next 5-10 years, so it'll soon be less of a pressing issue for me. Between the dust and the pollen, I don't even have to walk when I go outside anymore... just stand with my back toward the direction of travel and let my sneezes propel me.

I don't think it rained here Wednesday. Been a dry start to the month in stark contrast to May, with less than 0.4" through the first 8 days. Won't be long now before every conversation starts with "boy, we could really use the rain"... I haven't done the trails around Lake Taghkanic, but been to the west beach many times for stargazing/astrophotography. It's one of the darkest spots east of the river until you get all the way to probably Pharaoh Lake. Sadly (but not surprisingly, since that's just how these things work) it's the only state park where I reliably get shooed off by the park police for being there after hours. Sometimes I can avoid them before Memorial Day and after Labor Day when they only do a couple rounds per night.

26/31... lol. Insanity.

Hey @gravitylover, figured you'd appreciate that since it's still raining after midnight, I'll have 25 of 31 days in May with at least a T of rain, 23 with measurable.

7.69" here. Somewhat impressive to get into the high single digits with zero (afaik?) hydro issues.

15/9/4 May 1/0/0 June 0/0/0 July 2/1/0 August 2/2/0 September 4/3/2 October 4/2/2 November/December 2/1/0

Golf is a cool sport. Beats the heck out of gridiron football.

A lot of the rain lately has been at night, short-lived, or otherwise just generally unobtrusive, so it could be worse. This weekend is a good example. It looks like showers start before midnight Saturday and end in the wee hours, so 2 out of 3 days have rain even though no activities are disrupted. Last night around 11pm there was a little spat of meteors coming from Lyra while lightning flashed on the horizon and the first few fireflies of the season made their presence known. Summer can be nice.

As the old Chinese proverb goes, the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time was 19 years ago...

I think it was last Tuesday or Wednesday that I picked up a couple inches from a training thundershower while areas to the south stayed dry. Given that we're well into what should be convection season, it's surprising the overall totals are as uniform as they are IMO. Lol, yeah, the ceiling lifted a bit this afternoon to the point where you could almost discern the direction of the sunlight. You feel like a hobbit when you start squinting out the windshield because the UV index creeps all the way up to 1. This weekend actually looks stellar on the point+click, but that always comes with a massive caveat emptor this season.

Up to 5.85" for the month as we approach the halfway point.

I kept reading that as "manatee" and getting more concerned about the implications each time.

39F with 1.43" in the bucket from today's storm. Never did see any frozen precip like my neighbors in Litchfield, so you can only imagine how glad I am that we're doing this again tomorrow for another chance.

I was curious about this too last night. I saw POU put up 0.02" in the daily climo report when I was in bed and figured it must have started just before midnight, but it was actually from the previous morning at the 2 am ob.

Interesting how up until maybe 48 hours ago, there was some suggestion that the heaviest stuff may remain south of NYC today. Now at verification time, the south shore may even dryslot for a while. Really ripping on the summit at Hunter, and even snowing at the base it appears. https://www.huntermtn.com/web-cams/