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Pouring again, nice little cell right over central Franklin Co.

1 minute ago, CoastalWx said:

I’m just joking. It doesn’t mean much in the summer.

Yeah, it would have to be quite the odd set up for PF land and the S Coast to make up their precip deficits this winter while this area stays dry.

Just now, Sugarloaf1989 said:

0.62" yuck.

c'mon man, you need to make up for what you missed Saturday.

2 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

That's nuts!  And that axis of moisture has been really impressive.

Up here in the under 2" of rain zone, the interesting part to me is that the northern mountains seem to be the epicenter of the dryness.  They are normally pretty drought proof with orographic lift, especially in a humid pattern you get some orographic storm that can park and drop more rain than we've seen in the past month in about 2 hours. 

We've had some really wet summers though in the past 5 years.  The wettest was probably 2013 when like two feet of rain fell on Mansfield in June/July.

Yeah, it's an interesting split on that map.  I always think of your area as showery in the summer based on a lot of hiking up there in the mid and late 90's. 

Some of those PA totals are crazy!

30 day rainfall totals.  

1 hour ago, sbos_wx said:

Try gold bond

I use the mint gold bond for the full peppermint patty.

58 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Excellent day with partly sunny skies and did a great hike up near Lake Willoughby with the wife and dog.  

Temps near 80F though could feel the humidity ticking up.

Time to go water the garden.  Been a struggle to keep it from drying and burning up.

Willoughby, the Lake Lucerne of VT!  Love that place.

We've had no more than a handful of sunny days the past month.

19 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Lots of root rot here too. I have mold growing all over a whole section of my sage.

My garden was a waste of time and money at this point.

Most of the cord wood sellers keep their summer stock uncovered so there is a lot of product getting saturated. 

Meanwhile, moderate rain here.

16 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Another.36 so far today in the summer of pore

 Misery mist here.   Talked to two more farmers today who said that  powdery mildew, fungus, leaf and crop rot are becoming a big problem.

1 hour ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

Can we see this setup 4 months from now please. 

 

lol, yea after an ef1 tracked right over my head in May.... I knew the bad luck streak will continue until October and then magically, come November it will be ‘good’ luck. Oh looky here, warm and dry right until Spring. A big ‘FU’ to my weather preferences. 

WNE from SW VT so SW CT has been brutal.  I'm well over 10" of rain in the past 5-6 weeks and my friends in Dover VT are over 13"

It has been horrible for kids, pets and anyone who has to work outside.  If this winter tries to revert our (WNE) precipitation back to average I will snap, drive down to pick you up and we can drive around the NE taking weather radars out as we go. 

1 hour ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

Another splendid morning. Clouds, fog, drizzle, more clouds. Oh boy oh boy about to get stabbed. 

 This is easily the gloomiest summer since I moved to W MA in 2007.

3 hours ago, codfishsnowman said:

less than a tenth of an inch forecast up to 2 for Saturday alone

possible to likely down ours last night and today

it wasn't even that big an area that got soaked (parts of se new england)

we don't need it but I planned around it, just a terrible forecast...when I saw some rain in ct yesterday and the vast majority out in pa/nj and the other blob that skirted the south coast then saw the nearly motionless radar

 

then the back tracking in the box discussion about models too far north blah blah

What?  Greenfield got almost 3" and you got .10" ?    Weird. I thought all of I-91 corridor got smoked.

2 hours ago, Ginx snewx said:

.95 today 1.44 this weekend 

Pfff, W MA scoffs at those totals.   2.90" here.

56 minutes ago, codfishsnowman said:

well this weekend was embarrassing

How much rain did you get?

10 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Wasting the QPF in the warm season.

5 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

Just flip the summer wet and dry zones come Dec....outlook complete. I just saved Ray’s marriage. 

If we average out all this rain into winter WNE doesn't see a flake this year. 

1 hour ago, moneypitmike said:

Nice, seems like we might have had more since your 2.6" reading, too.  I'm following your posts for mby as my station's been off-line for a few months.  Needs some major rehab/replacement.

2.9" since yesterday.  Still occasional drizzle.

46 minutes ago, dendrite said:

JFC make it stop.

Pouring here for hours.  2.6" since noon but more than half of that has been since 6pm.  Fuk this, I am done with rain. 

Just pouring the past half hour.  On my way to another 1"+ day. 

.65"  so far today.

Just now, powderfreak said:

75F and partly sunny with dews in the 50s.

Business suits everywhere.

38 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

Another brutal Saturday morning. Last Saturday was salvaged by 1pm, but today looks shot. Special summer. 

Rain just started here, at least i got to the farmers market with the boy and got half the lawn cut.  It's been wet here but your area has been drowned the past month.

Driving down I-91 S yesterday you could smell the mold in the lower valley.

1 hour ago, Sugarloaf1989 said:

I've really enjoyed the torrential rain every other day.

Yeah, the farmers in Franklin Co (biggest ag county in MA) have been especially pleased with the rotting ground crops.

 The one rain shower on the radar is over Greenfield.   I was getting worried  about how dry it is.

45 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Pete has been getting drenched just about everyday for a month. His area over to the NY border has been crazy

The moss and ferns up on the hill town backroads is like the Ho Rain Forest this year.