Just did some garden work and (of course) some watering. Even though it's only about 80 degrees it is HUMID! There's a crew doing a roof a couple doors down. Those guys gotta be sweating bullets
Got that right! Snowless winter followed by drought, smoke and consistently missing every good rains in every direction. I hope the luck changes for my area. I'd be happy to see ONE good thunderstorm this month.
So you're saying my 0.8 for the last 10 days has not ended my drought? Dadgummit!
I'd like to see an early tropical system come into the FL panhandle and ride slowly up the coast while being squeezed by a cold front.
Caught a quick shower as the line was forming overhead but congrats eastern MoCo and Howard as it's turning into a decent line. Wish it had formed just a little further west
Oooh good point on the car filters. Oh and new drought map still reflects severe -- I bet my little micro-desert qualifies as extreme as I've had less than 1.5 for June
Check your AC filters after the smoke clears. We replaced our filter in April and it's one of those 4-inch thick ones that's supposed to last up to a year. We had an annual AC checkup last week and ours was dark gray already, like it had been in a whole year. It was that smoke event from early June. One of my friends had just changed his in late March and it was almost black.
82 and sickly yellow sun, AQI 175
For some of us, let's hope those chances turn out better than the last two weeks! I'm on track to finish well under 2 inches for the month. Closest CoCoRaHS (a little south) has 1.84 and I know they caught a couple that I missed. There's a 3.42 that is just 4.2 miles to my ESE
Some 200-plus purple alert readings in SW PA and we have NW winds thru tomorrow Hoping the S winds starting Thursday nights helps quickly. This is from west of Johnstown
It'll be interesting to see the update map on Thursday. I was already in the severe drought area and my spot missed out on almost ALL of the rain, including last Friday, yesterday and today. I'm thinking my micro-desert might be getting close to extreme drought soon, since we have no chances of rain any time in the near future
We demand the re-distribution of rain!
I see our next fail in the forecast: Friday night thru Sunday night with 60-70% chances of rain. Calling it now NOPE
A little sticky at 75/66. I see the point/click forecast has 90% rain chances later today again. Haha yeah right like yesterday's 90%? I'm thankful for my sprinkler heads so I can easily water the garden beds every few days. I've let the grass go dormant
Well damn we just had to cancel our mid-July trip to Marco Island, FL due to family stuff -- there went my one chance to see some thunderstorms this summer
Shocked! Nah, I had my sprinklers running by 5. I chuckled when reading forecasts of big t-storms and 90% rain chances. And LOL at that WPC 7-day precip forecast with 3-4 inch rain amounts from a few days ago It will take until Labor Day to reach 3 inches
I know what you mean, NPZ. I'm in a rain shadow with high elevations from my W around to the NE. Thunderstorms regularly break up or split around as they descend towards here, then reform just east. I expect the same tomorrow and will be surprised to see more than a couple tenths of rain. My parched lawn HAD to cash in with that strat rain this past week and missed all the heavy stuff, some within a handful of miles. Got nickel and dimed to less than an inch total.
I just can't believe so much rain is falling so close to the east. The other night it was just west. After today it's relying on thunderstorms so forget about it. We won't see a drop from those so we're done. Guess I'll be watering again this weekend
Finally caught a couple small but intense showers, one earlier and this one just now. Each only lasted a few minutes but came down hard with some good sized drops. Measured 0.6 since yesterday evening. I don't know how much before that but guestimating 0.3 based on surrounding obs.
Wow that's impressive! Move the decimal a digit to the left and that's what I'd guess I've gotten. I hope I didn't jinx tonight's rain since I just bought a new rain gauge I used to just go off the iweather rainfall map which used to be really good. Man they broke that thing