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Don has become the first hurricane of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season. Starting a thread for record keeping purposes. Can a mod move the Don related posts here?

Don has become the first hurricane of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season.

Back in tropical mode now that things are slowly heating up.

I have 10.39” on the month. With the quiet wx ahead it looks like it’s time to finally turn my attention to tropical.

It’s a red flag for me as we approach the peak of tropical season. We get more Great Lakes cutoff lows in August and there’s going to be a legitimate threat along the east coast/Atlantic Canada.

Another one from today. From a friend in another part of town.

What a month

2.54” here between 3:14-4:14pm

That was wild. I sent in the report of flash flooding to BOX before they put the warning up. This was before all hell broke loose with the back building. 2.66” with a peak rate of 14.40”/hr

Just outdid the other day! Peak rain rate of 14.4 an hour!

Rain rate of 7.38”/hr on this storm.

Plenty of good thunder and lightning with this one.

Big rainer over Hartford

Just picked up a quick .09 in advance of the main slug. Shame it weakened lol.

Might not have enough spacing with the Bristol cell?

Cell near Farmington/Avon looks good.

95L looks pretty solid right now. Agree with Windspeed that we’re probably looking at early August-ish for more conducive conditions but if that convection can persist for 95L it could be able to hold the drier air surrounding it at bay.

Invest 95L doesn’t look bad this morning.

I have electric tools for the house, but early on I had to use a gas powered blower because leaf pickup on my property is legit work. I hated watching gas spill on my patio and such, and the sound/smell, but I did what I had to do. I’ve had to go big with electric tools as a result. 80v mower and trimmer, which both work well now for the size of the job. I hate to broad brush, but I feel like anyone with a yard that requires work knows that you do whatever it takes to get the job done. Hopefully changes in technology make it easier to use electric.

It’s still hard for me to be that bullish.