Isolated SVR FF potential for our NYC metro 130P Fri 7/3-3A Sat 7/4

[Stormlover74]

Holy shit what a storm 

[Allsnow]

Wow this storm is legit 

[Stormlover74]

Just now, Allsnow said:

Wow this storm is legit 

Had to be a downburst or something ...I thought it was about over then all of a sudden the trees were bending 

[Stormlover74]

Glad I got video of that 

[winterwx21]

Just now, Allsnow said:

Wow this storm is legit 

And yet again, it missed me by just a couple miles to the east. I was on the edge so I only got a brief moderate shower. A few hundreths of an inch of rain. I'm ending up with not even a tenth of an inch of rain for the whole week, what a joke. The ground is parched.

[Allsnow]

Hail! 

[SRRTA22]

2 minutes ago, Stormlover74 said:

Glad I got video of that 

You got yourself a downburst my friend

[Stormlover74]

2 minutes ago, SRRTA22 said:

You got yourself a downburst my friend

Yeah the winds were from the east 

[SRRTA22]

4 minutes ago, Stormlover74 said:

Yeah the winds were from the east 

Yup, the scan is a frame or two later but you can see the velocities spread out. Must've been something to see! Congrats and dont forget to post the video

[Allsnow]

No wind here but loud thunder, Lightning, and hail 

[Allsnow]

[stockmanjr]

On NJT right now and went through some torrential rain between New Brunswick and Metropark. 

[winterwx21]

I don't know how this happens to my area every single time. I lost count of the number of storms that have missed me by just a few miles this week. It's mind boggling. Now to add insult to injury, the storms in Somerset county will miss me to the south as they move into central and southern Middlesex county. No water for the garden this week, despite so many storms around.

[Stormlover74]

1 minute ago, winterwx21 said:

I don't know how this happens to my area every single time. I lost count of the number of storms that have missed me by just a few miles this week. It's mind boggling. Now to add insult to injury, the storms in Somerset county will miss me to the south as they move into central and southern Middlesex county. No water for the garden this week, despite so many storms around.

It sucks.  I thought this was going to miss to my east when the sun started to come out then all hell broke loose

[Poker2015]

1 minute ago, winterwx21 said:

I don't know how this happens to my area every single time. I lost count of the number of storms that have missed me by just a few miles this week. It's mind boggling. Now to add insult to injury, the storms in Somerset county will miss me to the south as they move into central and southern Middlesex county. No water for the garden this week, despite so many storms around.

I'm on the Somerset/Hunterdon border and I hear thunder and see some lightning...radar says it's over my house and absolutely nothing...

[winterwx21]

9 minutes ago, Stormlover74 said:

It sucks.  I thought this was going to miss to my east when the sun started to come out then all hell broke loose

I'm glad you ended up getting a great storm, even though I'm very jealous (lol). I would have been in it had my location been just a couple miles to the east. The eastern sky looked as if the end of the world was happening ... pitch black and lots of lightning. Very frustrating to be so close to a great storm. I did water the vegetable garden this afternoon, because I had a feeling the storms would miss me again tonight. It has been a week of horrendous luck here. Hopefully better luck next week.

[doncat]

Once again missed the heavier rains but did manage 0.34" from the t storm.

[Stormlover74]

Sorry for the crappy quality. Stupid screened in porch

 

[Rtd208]

Picked up 0.26" of rain when the storms moved through.

[Stormlover74]

1 minute ago, Will - Rutgers said:

lol it's amazing, I've been on this forum with you for a few years, I thought your weather was my weather, and I completely missed this.  f'n Piscataway man lol.  anyway great video.

Looked very localized 

[Animal]

0.56 total

[Animal]

4 hours ago, Will - Rutgers said:

Welcome to summer am I right?

I did get a nice sunset.

As a comment: big summer storms are like a good dinner to me.  You get the appetizer, the anticipation, big heat and humidity, you watch it roll in, outflow breeze revves up, maybe you get a nice shelf cloud.  Bam, it hits, big rain, wind, thunder and lightning, hail if you're lucky.  It rolls out, you're absorbing everything that happened, and just as you do, a big beautiful sunset appears.  Dessert!  God we are so lucky to be weather enthusiasts.

Here's today's dessert straight from Piscataway.  Camera phone can't ever do it justice but it was good for a summer sunset.

 

QVC is doing Xmas in July.

winter is coming

[wdrag]

Hi everyone and celebrate safely! I was a little disappointed in seemingly not much activity after about 9P last night, but the verification isn't too bad.  I knew there were still over 15,000 customers without power around 9P last night in the tri state.  Looking for any rainfall reports in our NYC forum area over 2.5" = radar shows some spots in sw CT. Here is a glance at the report and radar-sensor verification. 606A/4

[gravitylover]

@Brian5671 didn't you say you were over 3 1/2"?

[Brian5671]

1 hour ago, gravitylover said:

@Brian5671 didn't you say you were over 3 1/2"?

about 4 inches grand total

[wdrag]

I guess that that near 4" takes a care of it...    I wanted to start with 2.5. Will check with CoCoRAHS soon to check.

 

Walt

[bluewave]

3 hours ago, Brian5671 said:

about 4 inches grand total

2nd heaviest July daily rainfall total at BDR.

Maximum 1-Day Total Precipitation 
for IGOR I SIKORSKY MEMORIAL AIRPORT, CT
Click column heading to sort ascending, click again to sort descending.

Rank	Value	Ending Date
Period of record: 1948-07-01 to 2020-07-03
1	5.95	1971-07-19
2	3.99	2020-07-03
3	3.93	1980-07-29
4	3.57	1960-07-30
5	3.45	1953-07-23
6	3.16	1971-07-30
7	2.74	2019-07-18
8	2.69	1988-07-20
9	2.61	1963-07-21
10	2.41	1996-07-13

 

[wdrag]

Here's a graphic of 3.3+.  Hope this works okay... CoCoRAHS observers.

 

Also from OKX via PNS.

CONNECTICUT

...Fairfield County...
   Bridgeport Airport    3.98   759 PM  7/03  ASOS
   Stratford             3.06   800 PM  7/03  CWOP
   Fairfield             1.57   757 PM  7/03  CWOP
   1 NW Stratford        1.43   805 PM  7/03  AWS
   Bridgeport            1.28   800 PM  7/03  CWOP

 

 

[IrishRob17]

16 minutes ago, wdrag said:

Here's a graphic of 3.3+.  Hope this works okay... CoCoRAHS observers.

 

Also from OKX via PNS.

CONNECTICUT

...Fairfield County...
   Bridgeport Airport    3.98   759 PM  7/03  ASOS
   Stratford             3.06   800 PM  7/03  CWOP
   Fairfield             1.57   757 PM  7/03  CWOP
   1 NW Stratford        1.43   805 PM  7/03  AWS
   Bridgeport            1.28   800 PM  7/03  CWOP

 

 

That’s a great illustration of how different rainfall totals can be over a short distance, especially with thunderstorms. 

[wdrag]

Like just missing a deer... that close in a very tight gradient.  I've seen an inch a mile. 

 

Walt