CoolHandMike

We gotchu, JTA66: Just hope you don't live downwind from that Merck site. Either that sensor is permanently funky, or there's always some seriously nasty shiz in the air: Both of these sensors are in this snapshot of the AQI fire map:

Not here we're not. We're still in a deficit out here. Smoke is pretty bad this morning. Ugh, here we go again.

Good night for my brand-spanking new heat pump A/C to quit working. AQI is hovering around 100, so opening the windows is risky, but without A/C my house is at 78°F and will take considerable amount of time to cool down as the front of the house (mostly brick) just bakes in the afternoon sun. Called and left a message for them to come out first thing in the morning, but now I'm debating having an emergency service call. Currently 73 outside right now, and I know it's supposed to get down to ~60-ish, so I think we'll be fine; it could be much hotter/humid outside. Still. Not happy--this'll be the second service call in two months for the same issue. Mind you--I'M fine to wait for the morning, but I have people under my roof who are immunocompromised and suffer from asthma/allergies out the wazoo. It has not been a, shall we say, comfortable time for all of us these past few years. As soon as it cools down enough, I'll close all the windows and just run the system on "fan only" so at least we will gain the benefit of filtration.

It peaked here around 11-12 this morning at just over 100 but seems to be on the decline now.

.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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

What a wild storm on radar!