Streak

It’s partly sunny at the moment but around 1:15 this afternoon there were some flurries at the dog park at John Rudy.

Sorry to hear that. Hopefully we all see significant improvement this winter and next spring.

A lot less rain than expected here, too; just a hair over .5” in the rain gauge this morning. Not too terribly unusual for my neighborhood, we almost always get less precip than forecast and less than surrounding areas, but I thought we were looking at a minimum of .75 this time.

As of 10:45 am, it’s 38 degrees and the flurries have just become a flizzard here in East York. First snowflakes of the season — happy winter, everyone.

Those of you who keep detailed stats might be able to confirm or correct me if I’m wrong but I think it was summer of 2021 that there was a massive heat wave over much of the western and middle portions of the US, with unprecedented heat in the Pacific Northwest (and I believe in places like Wisconsin and Minnesota). Here on the forum we kept dreading the heat’s inevitable expansion east, but it never really happened. We only had typical heat throughout the summer —some really hot days, to be sure— but nothing unexpected. Hopefully that will be the case this year, too. September is right around the corner.

Yes, my own rain gauge showed a hair over .50. Hopefully more to come next week. We still plan to be very frugal with water usage but the water pressure seemed a little better this morning than it has for the past couple months.

Yeah, we’ve had very little all week. Striking out so far. Hoping something comes our way soon.

Same here in East York. A couple minutes of some very light rain and that was it. On a related note, I haven’t yet seen any fireflies here this season. Most years they’re here by early June and some years as early as late May. I’ve been loving the chilly overnight lows and the low dew points, but I’m sure that’s contributing to the delayed firefly season (or lightning bugs, as the kids around here call them). Pains me when anything abbreviates their season since they’re already in significant decline.

I don’t know how accurate the iweather.net digital radar is but it’s showing .65 for the past 24 hours and a total of 1.47 for the past 72, which is probably pretty accurate. We always seem to have lower rainfall totals than elsewhere in the LSV. Guess some of us will still have to keep our fingers crossed for more rain in the next few weeks.

I always worry about this but the more extreme winds don’t seem to come to fruition here and I’m grateful every single time. But we do have some strong winds (in the 25 mph range) at times when it’s not in the forecast or mentioned at all, like what Bubbler mentioned upthread. Happens at least 3 or 4 times each spring. But thankfully, we haven’t experienced any 50-60 mph winds.

Couldn’t agree more. Might as well get your Speedo out of the closet too; I’m rooting for mid 50s to low 60s. (Sorry, snowhounds. Wish you guys could get a foot of snow and a few weeks of cold to maintain it while my neighborhood has upper 50s and sunshine.)

I’m ready for spring at this point and I can do without the “raw” and “windy”. We really do need the rain around here, though. I just hope, come April, we continue to see temps more on the milder side and that “extreme” this year means things like thunderstorms, rather than life-threatening events.

Gorgeous, sunny, 63 right now with a light breeze. Was 56 and quite a bit more windy when we first went outside around 12:25, so it feels like a massive increase in temperature over the past 35 minutes or so.

We had snow here on April 22, 2021. Didn’t accumulate on paved surfaces but my yard had maybe an inch (a bit more than a dusting, in any case) of snow before it was all over.

Amazing how much difference the wind and cloud cover can make, even with the temp up to 50.