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As of the 13th I am running a + number on rainfall for the month, 2.31" vs a normal of 1.70, +.61". Decided to see what the past year ran and if a + halfway thru the month made a difference, so going backwards a year- June 2026 3.16" vs normal 4.20", -1.04" 15th 1.61" vs normal 2.10", -0.49" May 2026 3.90" vs normal 4.30", -0.40" 15th 1.42" vs normal 2.15", -0.73" April 2026 2.07" vs normal 3.64", -1.57" 15th 0.87" vs normal 1.80", -0.93" Mar 2026 2.12" vs normal 3.52", -1.40" 15th 0.83" vs normal 1.75", -0.92" Feb 2026 2.76" vs normal 2.67", +0.09" 15th 0.19" vs normal 1,35", -1.16" Jan 2026 2.84" vs normal 2.94", -0.10" 15th 0.92" vs normal 1.45", -0.53" Dec 2025 3.21" vs normal 3.32", -0.01" 15th 1.73" vs normal 1.60", +0.13" Nov 2025 1.34" vs normal 2.78", -1.44" 15th 0.25" vs normal 1.40", -1.15" Oct 2025 2.19" vs normal 2.70", -0.51" 15th 0.86" vs normal 1.30", -0.44" Sept 2025 2.28" vs normal 3.55", -1.27" 15th 0.11" vs normal 1.70", -1.59" Aug 2025 2.04" vs normal 3.32", -1.28" 15th 0.83" vs normal 1.60". -0.77" July 2025 4.19" vs normal 4.01", +0.18" 15th 2.74" vs normal 2.00", +0.74" That is a -8.75" for the 12 months, and a -7.84" at the mid-point of the month. Appears if you're in the hole by mid-month you don't recover? Feb 2026 stands out as an outlier to that. Also, it has been a year since I've been on the positive side this high mid-month.

Well, not from an event like from my previous post, but DO have a drizzle/light rain/fog thing going on this morning. Temp in mid 60's, feels wonderful. High yesterday was 73.5 degrees, and that happened before noon, then it fell into mid-upper 60's and stayed there with rain on and off. Glanced at records to see where the 73.5 fell on the 'cool max' chart, lol nowhere close. Mind can't remember the event, but high on 7/13/1999 was 61 with about a 1/2" of rain. I don't think anything tropical was around then, although 1999 was a busy year.

Maybe it is just an 'older man' reminiscing about younger days, but I swear we used to get the 'leftovers' from big midwestern (IL/IN/MO/KY/OH) storms to swing thru here from the W or NW late overnight into the early morning hours.

Fun watching the showers/t-storms rolling WEST in a line from Front Royal to almost Lynchburg this afternoon, lol. Everything out this way seems to just be stationary, MAYBE a slight WSW movement. Although I've only had .25-.30 here since noon, 10 miles to my south has had 2-4 INCHES of rain and a FFW until 7:45 pm.

Two consecutive back to back 0.01" readings, rocking here! Course, soon as I type this it starts raining lol.

Late but here! Numbers for June 2026. Averaged high was 80.4 degrees vs a normal of 80.3 degrees, a +0.1 degree above average. The warmest temp recorded was 90.1 degrees on the 13th. Averaged low temp was 57.0 degrees vs a normal of 57.3 degrees, a -0.3 degree below average. The coolest temp recorded was 46.1 degrees on the 3rd. Overall averaged temp was 68.7 degrees vs a normal of 68.8 degrees, a -0.1 degree below average. Total rainfall for the month was 3.16 inches vs a normal of 4.20 inches, -1.04 inches below average. The wettest day was the 15th with 0.93" falling. There were 12 days with measurable, 0 days with a 'T' and 18 dry days. The highest wind recorded was 41 mph on the 15th. There were 8 days with winds above 25 mph. Lots of variation during the month with warm and cool spells but surprisingly worked out to almost a perfect average. Again, the month ended drier than normal, bad trend ongoing. A special thanks to the folks that kept up with the numbers while I was traversing the country!

And we are back. Spent 12 days zig-zagging across the country and actually back a day early. Wife bought 2 bushels of green beans and 60 lbs of 'maters from an Amish farm a bit down from my sister's house in TN on Saturday. THEN decided we needed to get them home so she could process and can them all! Meanwhile I picked another 1/2 bushel of beans off of ours when I got home last evening. She's gonna be busy. Least the house was in decent shape from my niece staying here and watching over the cat. We live in a beautiful country, get off the interstates and drive the US and state routes, much more to see!

I'm doing the same as @so_whats_happening, heading out in the am for 2 weeks vacation. I'm likely to end up in a few 'iffy' internet/cell service areas, so I'll pick now and IF I get the chance to review/change before June 30th I'll do. DCA: +2.2 NYC: +2.7 BOS: +3.1 ORD: +2.3 ATL: +1.8 IAH: +1.4 DEN: +2.1 PHX: +1.1 SEA: +2.4

LOL, I think everybody would be happy if it just EXPANDED 75-100 miles to the south. A good 2-3" soaker would do a lot of good for most of us.

Low of 52.8 here this am with a nice 5 mph N/NW breeze. Refreshing! Low of 34 at Canaan NWR.

The 0.28" reported at 7 am got me over 2" for the month (2.12"). About another .05-.06 in gauge eyeballing it from the kitchen window since. A light rain falling currently at 10:15 am and a muggy 66.8/66.0 degrees.

Downslope special!

Just a little bit of fog burning off at 8 am and 55.0/53.3 degrees, another 40's low of 49.0 degrees.

48.2 for the low here, wonderful! Currently 63.3/54.0 at 10:30 am under partly cloudy skies. EDIT- close, but not near the record of 45 from 1985.

Currently 57.7/52.2 with partly cloudy skies after a 56.4 low. Picked up 0.93" from several rounds of thunderstorms and showers yesterday afternoon thru about midnight.