CoolHandMike

.34" from today's rain, for a two-day total of 1.09". Not too bad. Still need more though to make up for May's deficit.

6 minutes ago, BBasile said:

This storm in Salem County seems to have some broad rotation.  Even has a nice little tail cloud that looks to be getting longer.  

 

That's super cool to be able to toss up a drone for those pics. I wish I could do that, but I'm too close to an airport.

1 hour ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

I saw that line and was wondering if you were in the path!

It's 77 here with dp a juicy 73 and am wondering if that will hold together as it moves east.  Haven't had any sun bust out here although it looks like it wants to even if stuck behind the thick clouds.

Got a whole .18" out of that. There's stuff still forming though, so I'm holding out hope. It looks like the radar's filled in pretty well over our region overall.

Whoa. It's actually raining right over my house for a change! Waiting to see if this line will merge or part around us as per usual.

Hearing some rolling thunder now at the tail end of this. .69" in the gauge for the day. Both rain barrels (50gal each) should be full by now.

OMG, we have actual precip here! The storms actually closed in and we're up another .2" for the day! 

You know what though? This is a pretty neat even to track as that low stalls out over the Great Lakes. At least some weather in the region is better than no weather in the region. So while I may be personally offended that it all seems to keep missing me, at least it's entertaining. 

And again, I find myself in the middle of a split system. Unbelievable. (I'm just west of the "S" in South Temple.) It's all parting around us. There has to be something about our local geography that causes this to happen so very, very often, I just can't figure out what.

8 minutes ago, Birds~69 said:

Wow. When I first read this I though you meant 1/2 barrel of rain then I reread and you meant only 1/2" in the barrel. That's not normal for most summers, bad luck this year so far. A nice TStorm would fill that up pretty quick.

Maybe some of this stuff will come up and get you....  

No no, you were right. We got close to half an inch precip a couple of weeks ago, and that completely filled the barrel. I probably could have worded that better though. I live in an L-shaped split-level, so lots of roof area drains into my east corner, in the back of the house. The new one should get a lot of the runoff from the western side of the house, out in front.

13 minutes ago, Birds~69 said:

Is your barrel full or you need storms to fill it completely?

71F/DP 69F

Well, see, I went and did a dumb. I installed ANOTHER barrel last weekend. So I have no one to blame but myself. First barrel did fill up with only 1/2" of rain though, and I expect the second will as well. Actually, it probably already has some in it from this morning, I completely forgot to check!

Looks like the red stuff is going to miss us. Again. Dangit. Maybe tomorrow? Seems pretty insane to need to run my garden irrigation with all of these storms swirling about, but there you have it.

It's cooled off nicely, down to 77 and the DP is also down somewhat to 66. Still nothing since this morning though.

Heavy clouds rolling in now. Starting to see stuff firing off to the west. Currently 85°F, DP is 76.

Sun's out here, and a flood watch is up. Fingers crossed~

FINALLY picked up some rain, .36" just now. 

Here's a quick YT video of the cloud development as viewed from my NE facing security camera, recorded at 30fps with pictures every 30 seconds. Pretty wild. (You can fast-forward a bit to get to the afternoon if you like.)

Getting fringed again. Can't catch a break. Two days in a row with storms forecasted all day and just .07" to show for it. Tried to dig a hole to plant a tree in the front yard and the soil is dry as a bone still. Had to break out the pick axe!

I live right between these two cells and they are both going to pass by.

Got up to 90 earlier, so at least it's cooled down a bit here. It was pretty gross working outside earlier though.

Another day of hot and humid, with torrential downpours that completely avoid my locale. Picked up .07" yesterday morning for a total so far of 2.84" for June, which is about half of last year's amount thus far, but actually slightly more than June 2021. Really hoping for some more today, but we'll see. 

6 hours ago, Birds~69 said:

Yep, same.

First day of Summer...

65F/DP 55F/Overcast, drizzle/mist

I'll take it. The days only get shorter from here on out. Happy Summer Solstice, everyone!

What a wild storm on radar!

33 minutes ago, RedSky said:

Fillerup all the rain you can get today next week has flipped dry.

 

What?? Noooo! Maybe it'll flip back.

2 hours ago, RedSky said:

Must be smoke over PA

 

Looks like it on GOES-East. That's fine, it can stay up there this time thankyouverymuch.

Ok, this is weird. Here's my radar at the moment:

and here's my view to the west:

I think there's so much wind behind this that it blew all of the precip out in front. It got crazy gusty here, and then we had some brief rain spattering on the front of the house, and now it's calmer and sunny. Pretty wild. FWIW, none of this even registered in the rain gauge.

Crazy windy here on the back side. Looks like we might get a 2-second downpour as well.