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New normal it seems

What an awesomely deep red sunrise here this morning!! Smoke doing its thing...

16/5/2

Well, that didn't help a whole lot. Mostly fell apart as it approached yesterday afternoon. Ended up with 0.02 in the gauge.

Happy Birthday H2O! Hope you have a super day!

Hmm, well, since the 1st of the month I've had 1.15 here, not including since 7 am this morning. Amazing you're only an hour or so northeast. Still lightly raining and a bit over .4 since it started around 5 am. Temp still hasn't crossed the 60 mark either.

Or climb in altitude. Above 4000 has just leafed out in last couple of days here.

Nice rain this morning, had 0.11 at 7 am report time, around 0.15 since then and still lightly raining.

Same here. One year (2016??) it stayed WAY wet and it survived thru to the next year before dying off in July 2017 lol.

Decent thundershower rolling thru here in last 30 minutes or so, 64.0 degrees. About .20 so far in gauge.

Hey! 60.4 degrees just before 1 pm, I made it! lol Maybe we can get a bit closer to a 'normal' high here (71) for the date. That big and bright orb up in the sky feels good too after being gone close to a week.

So frost got your plants?

12 gauge?

I'll finish your sentence, you must have been cut off... Someone bought a McLaren P1 that flooded during Ian, and now they’re trying to fix it. It will be interesting to watch... them toss tons of money at it. lol

Yeah, the 'sunnier with less wind' is starting to fade (literally) as we head into the afternoon. Set a new 'cool max' again, 50.7 degrees was the high, old mark was 52.0 degrees from 2004. Least we have topped yesterday as currently it is 52.5 degrees at 1 pm, oh, with cloudy skies and NNW wind at 7 gusting to 19.

Broke the 'cool max' for the date by a good bit, new record is 51.2 degrees, old was 55.9 degrees from 2020. Currently 43.7/33.8, actually warmed up a few degrees, was 41.6 when I hit the bed last night around 1 am.

US 250 west of Monterey VA

Yep, both 'Shoe and Canaan getting rocked in last hour or so.

What sun?

Beautiful pinwheel spinning over the lakes, only 3 months late.

My numbers for the month of April, 2023 Total precip was 3.79 inches vs a normal of 3.64 inches, a +0.15 above average. The wettest day was the 28th with 1.41 inches falling. There were 11 days with measurable, one day with a 'T' and 18 dry days. Zero snowfall for the month vs a normal of 0.3 inches, a -0.3 inches below normal and ties several years with no snowfall for the month. The averaged high temp was 68.7 degrees vs a normal of 66.2 degrees, a +2.5 degrees above normal. The warmest day was the 21st with a 84.6 degree reading. The averaged low temp was 39.6 degrees vs a normal of 38.9 degrees, a +0.7 degrees above normal. The coldest temp recorded for the month was 27.2 degrees on the 9th. The overall averaged temp was 54.1 degrees vs a normal of 52.5 degrees, a +1.6 degrees above normal. The highest wind recorded was 46 mph on the 2nd. Only record for month is the tied no snowfall. Records go back to Oct 1979.

You know, it's been a while since I've had that 4 letter word in my forecast in May.... And WSW's hiked up in the mountains of WV. Naturally I was ready to finish planting everything starting tomorrow in the garden lol. Think I'll wait until Saturday just to keep things on the safe side. Snow currently flying up at 'Shoe and Canaan.

DCA: -0.6 NYC: -0.2 BOS: +0.3 ORD: +0.3 ATL: -0.9 IAH: +0.3 DEN: +0.7 PHX: -1.4 SEA: +1.2

Managed to stay above freezing for the first night in a few, currently 35.8/33.5 here.

29.9 for the low here.