Juliancolton

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/

Over an inch and a half here. Gives me lots of water to work with when backwashing the pool filter during these opening stages, so I'm happy about that.

I try not to, usually has bad results. The 6z NAM this morning was about two degrees off from snow in the hills around here. Thank heavens it since made a wholesale improvement to a 36F rain.

So this looks unpleasant

I picked up almost an inch last night. Heavy training showers rooted to a mesoscale convergence zone over the river. Terrible. Strongly agree about the anything-goes lawn. By no means do I knock folks who work hard on their lawns... it's an art form all its own. Not all yards are created equal though, and in mine, the interface between guests and lawn is very limited. If people only ever see it from 100 yards going by at 50 mph, green is green.

Orange and Rockland (and whatever is south of there, I think it's West Virginia) could get a pretty good dousing early this evening. PWATs are juicy and the low-level flow weak.

36F and falling under clear skies. Sneaky window of radiating before the clipper system. Maybe it'll be enough to get some flakes to the ground tomorrow morning.

Lawn needs mowing.

I went to buy a 50 lb bag of 19-19-19 at the farm supply store the other day, and it felt like I was buying contraband fresh off the boat from Colombia. Had to ask for it by name, go in the back room, and promise the guy I wans't using it on my lawn before he would sell it to me... apparently it's illegal here to broadcast ferts containing phosphorous on lawns. Looked into it a little further and the exception was if you're starting a new lawn from scratch, or can prove to the state of NY via repeated soil tests that you're below a certain threshold of P. Pretty intense.

You know what, you're right. I completely forgot about that. I'll never understand folks who are reduced to getting their kicks that way.

.79" for the event now as rain tapers off. Quite the soggy day after that brief period of warmth and sunshine mid-morning. On a side note, anyone else getting a kick out of the drama over on the NE subforum?