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i can assure you it's because i live in Piscataway too once i move you're gonna get hammered by rain so often you'll need to replace the veggie garden with a rice paddy

what an amazing jackpot, congratulations. any street flooding?

It might have even been 2016. I'd like to say 2017 most likely. As I remember the entire state was covered in a swarm of cells. Never saw anything like it before or since.

The last few days have been one of the more interesting setups I've seen for the area, I'll give them that. Cell to my west is hammering Somerset County and has dropped many nice CTG strikes. Question for everyone: does anyone remember a day 2-3 years ago, incredibly hot and humid, where at some point in the afternoon the entire region exploded with thunderstorms crawling random directions? It was a very distinctive event. At some point in the afternoon, like 2:30 PM, the radar went from clear to cells gushing everywhere. There was no steering flow. Cells just appeared everywhere and drifted around, the whole state was covered by red echoes, flash flooding must've been everywhere. I don't even think it was due to a seabreeze front, they didn't really propagate along a front that I could see. The atmosphere pretty much rained itself out. Wish I could remember what day that was and what the setup was, pretty wild.

and to think coming into 2020 it was months and months of above average precipitation

@wdrag great job picking up the Saturday threat early. I wish it panned out but you saw the potential before anyone else that I heard from. @forkyfork and great job to you for picking up on today's potential yesterday. This isn't a big forum but we're very blessed to have talented meteorologists and enthusiastic amateurs--one of my favorite online communities I belong to. Good luck today everyone!

maybe some storms will pop?

Might be another day for orographic lift, sea breeze, training storms. Cumulus building in the area. Weak steering flow all around. I'm watching the clouds and they're basically stationary.

These have been very, very small cells. I got about 10 minutes of a light, showery rain. Really small drops, it sort of looked like it was raining hard but it was basically an angry spritzing.

Spritzing sprinkles but the thunder is very loud and close.

Thundering in Piscataway. As this really isn't a frontal passage I imagine we could be looking for storms to pop up all day.

Did you just see/hear/feel that massive CTG?

I can actually smell the rain from the storm outflow but we haven't gotten drop one in Ye Olde Apartment Complex. It's like waving a cookie in front of a dog's nose, just feed me you bitch.

Ton of chances this upcoming week, I think it's pretty inevitable we all cash in at some point. It's nothing but hot and humid as far as the eye can see.

And I'm like 5 minutes too far east in Piscataway. I think @chrisNJ is in for a rainy evening based on the training that's forming.

Tiny, very tiny cell over Somerset with 60 dBZ echoes. Constant thunder.

this pattern is... bizarre. i cannot remember anything like this in my life, although you folks are much better archivists than i am.

Storms regenerating over north-central PA.

Lightning in Piscataway and maybe some kind of gust front.

2020 sucks

Thanks bluewave. I always learn a lot from your posts. Here's hoping for some big thunderstorms boys.

I thought MCS were generally difficult to forecast and a modelling challenge. Would be great if we could get one, they're always fun.

Steady rains for at least two hours in New Brunswick.

What an absolutely premium day outside. Pristine sky, light breeze, warm sun, no humidity, birds singing. Couldn't have imagined this weather looking at the forecast last week.

Spotty flurries in Piscataway. Just unreal 850 mb temps.