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2 minutes ago, rclab said:

Central Park reported ,24. As always ….

 

Kind of surprised by the 1651 reading of only 0.06" in CPK.  I was in Midtown when that cell flared up at 1600 and it looked like tropical downpours for nearly 10 mins. Sure seemed like a bit more than what they reported. 

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77 / 72 leftover showers and humidity as front fully passes through later today, Probably the warmest of the next 5 mid / uppper 80s.  Gorgeous stretch Thu - Sun coming up , similar to Monday low - mid 80s.  Next trough/front moves through Mon/Tue and then onto drier calmer.  Overall below normal throught he end of the month with ridge and heat west , heat does beging pushing east in the 7/31 - 8/5 period and we'll see how much gets into the area and when the next shot at 90s will be.

 

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Records:

Highs:

EWR: 108 (2011)
NYC: 104 (2011)
LGA: 104 (2011)
JFK: 103 (2011)



Lows:

EWR: 56 (1944)
NYC: 58 (1890)
LGA: 62 (1956)
JFK: 59 (1966)



Historical:

 

1918 - A single bolt of lightning struck 504 sheep dead in their tracks at the Wasatch National Forest in Utah. Sheep often herd together in storms, and as a result the shock from the lightning bolt was passed from one animal to another. (David Ludlum)

 

1926: State maximum temperature record was set today at Troy, New York which was 108 °F. Also the maximum temperature of 105 °F was recorded at Waterbury, Connecticut but their state record is now 106 °F in 1995. (Ref. Lowest and Highest Temperatures for the 50 States)

1959: Two one-hundredths of an inch of rain was recorded ending a streak of 150 days with no measurable precipitation at Las Vegas, NV. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

1972: One person in Virginia was killed by lightning while playing softball. (Ref. Lightning - Virginia Weather History)

1986 - Hurricane Estelle passed 120 miles south of the Hawaiian Islands creating a ten to twenty foot surf. The large swells resulted from a combination of high tides, a full moon, and 50 mph winds. The hurricane also deluged Oahu Island with as much as 6.86 inches of rain on the 24th and 25th of the month. (Storm Data)

1987 - Barrow, AK, receives 1.38 inches in 24 hours on the 21st and 22nd, an all-time record for that location. The average annual precipitation for Barrow is just 4.75 inches. Thunderstorms in Montana produced 4 to 6 inches of rain in Glacier County causing extensive flooding along Divide Creek. Missoula, MT, received 1.71 inches of rain in 24 hours, a record for the month of July. (The National Weather Summary) (The Weather Channel)

1988 - Six cities in the south central U.S. reported record low temperatures for the date, including Pueblo, CO, with a reading of 48 degrees. Thunderstorms over the Atlantic Coast Region drenched Wilmington, NC, with 6.49 inches of rain in about eight hours. (The National Weather Summary)

1989 - Showers and thunderstorms prevailed across the southeastern third of the country. Afternoon thunderstorms in Florida produced wind gusts to 86 mph at Zephyrhills, and gusts to 92 mph at Carrollwood and Lutz. Thunderstorm winds gusting to 69 mph at Crystal Lake damaged nineteen mobile homes. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)

 

1992: Lightning hit on or near a concrete mixing truck near Walla Walla, WA; a man was knocked off the truck. 10 minutes later a 2nd strike knocked him away from the truck again. He was fortunate he was only slightly hurt. (Weather Guide Calendar with Phenomenal Weather Events 2011 Accord Pub. 2010, USA)

1993: The levee, holding back the flooding Mississippi River at Kaskaskia, Illinois, ruptures, forcing the town's people to flee on barges. The incident at Kaskaskia was the most dramatic event of the flood. At 9:48 a.m., the levee broke, leaving the people of Kaskaskia with no escape route other than two Army Corp of Engineers barges. By 2 p.m., the entire town was underwater.

 

1999: The Cedar River in Charles City, IA reached its all-time crest of an estimated 22.8 feet. Approximately 100 homes had flood damage in Charles City. Almost 12 inches of rain fell in a 48 hours period over these counties. Rainfall totals that day: New Hampton, IA: 7.10 inches (wettest day on record), Charles City, IA: 6.65 inches, West Union, IA: 4 inches. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

2003: "The Mid-South Derecho of 2003" States affected....AR, TN, MS, AL, GA, SC (Ref. For More Information)

2006: Palm Springs, California: Mercury soars to 121 °F. (Ref. WxDoctor)

2006: Widespread damaging winds, estimated around 90 mph, raked most of Jefferson County in south central Illinois. The city of Mt. Vernon was especially hard hit, where about 14% of all homes received at least minor damage. In Mt. Vernon, damage assessments indicated 1,107 homes were affected by some type of damage. 491 homes received minor damage such as roofs blown off, 152 received major damage, and 18 were destroyed. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

2011: A low of 82 degrees Fahrenheit on the 22nd at Norfolk tied for the second highest minimum temperature ever recorded there. Also the highest temperature for 2011 was 103 °F at Norfolk and 102°F at Richmond both on July, 22nd. (Ref.NWS, Wakefield, Virginia - A Near Record High Minimum Temperature for Norfork)

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9 hours ago, winterwx21 said:

Only 0.13" here. But the ground is still moist from Saturday's big rains, so it's not a big deal that we mostly missed today. 

Yes, was actually pretty happy not to get the bigger rains after Saturday.  4.35" for the month is pretty nice

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Total for yesterday 3.10".  Two rounds.   Early morning 1.72" in about 45 minutes.  Second round with tornado warned storm early afternoon dropped 1.37" in about 15 minutes.  Finished with .01" during the evening in a quick moving light shower.

I'm good with rain for a while.  Need some time for the ground to dry out.  No need to water here anytime soon. Everything is as green as it could possibly be.

@bluewave posted above the next big ridge looks to be centered more west over the western plains or Rockies.  Watch for weak downstream trof over the east.  Depending on placement that could signal another round of wet weather.  A trof axis over the Ohio Valley or along the Appalachians would make for a wetter go around here.

 

 

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3 minutes ago, MANDA said:

Total for yesterday 3.10".  Two rounds.   Early morning 1.72" in about 45 minutes.  Second round with tornado warned storm early afternoon dropped 1.37" in about 15 minutes.  Finished with .01" during the evening in a quick moving light shower.

I'm good with rain for a while.  Need some time for the ground to dry out.  No need to water here anytime soon. Everything is as green as it could possibly be.

@bluewave posted above the next big ridge looks to be centered more west over the western plains or Rockies.  Watch for weak downstream trof over the east.  Depending on placement that could signal another round of wet weather.  A trof axis over the Ohio Valley or along the Appalachians would make for a wetter go around here.

 

 

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Do you happen to have any rainfall rate information from your station? I'm at 9.74" for the month making it the second wettest July for me, only topped by 2023 with 13.95". My average is 4.85". Interesting to note that I had .08" more in the Stratus than in the Davis which had to be due to splash out from the Davis in the 12.52" per hour rate for five minutes followed by a 11.76" rate for five minutes around 9:30pm last night. 

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1 minute ago, IrishRob17 said:

Do you happen to have any rainfall rate information from your station? I'm at 9.74" for the month making it the second wettest July for me, only topped by 2023 with 13.95". My average is 4.85". Interesting to note that I had .08" more in the Stratus than in the Davis which had to be due to splash out from the Davis in the 12.52" per hour rate for five minutes followed by a 11.76" rate for five minutes around 9:30pm last night. 

Don't have any information on rainfall rates here.  My period of record here is just about 9 years.  Will have to go back and look to see what my wettest month was.  Good question.

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1 hour ago, straphanger said:

Kind of surprised by the 1651 reading of only 0.06" in CPK.  I was in Midtown when that cell flared up at 1600 and it looked like tropical downpours for nearly 10 mins. Sure seemed like a bit more than what they reported. 

That sorta reminds me of when I was a kid in the early 50’s and we used to play tag with, what we called, sun showers. I guess the convection strength was either very isolated or that the ASOS cover foliage in Central Park soaked up a lot of what was falling. I like your screen name. As always …..

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3 hours ago, ForestHillWx said:

@MANDA Chester is also wonderfully green for the second half of July. 

Ditto for Sparta.  Looks great.

3 hours ago, BobbyHolikWillFindYou said:

Ticks are going to love this too. Ugh.

I have a shiptload of them up here.  We got five in the last week just from being out on the deck.  I've found them crawling across the deck rails and even the deck chairs, and one up the wall of our kitchen!  We don't even butt up to the woods, so they must be from the copious amounts of deer wandering through the yard.  I just sprayed the hell out of the deck, deck planters, and surrounding lawn with pet safe spray so I'm hoping that does the trick.  Ticks in general are really getting out of control and tick borne illness, some serious, continue to rise.

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My understanding is that ironically it is white footed field mice rather than deer that spread ticks the most, including the type commonly known as "deer ticks."  Foxes eat the mice, and communities with active fox populations have a significantly reduced incidence of tick-borne diseases.

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36 minutes ago, Evie3 said:

My understanding is that ironically it is white footed field mice rather than deer that spread ticks the most, including the type commonly known as "deer ticks."  Foxes eat the mice, and communities with active fox populations have a significantly reduced incidence of tick-borne diseases.

My background is in ticks, and you are right that the white-footed mice spread them the most along with chipmunks. This is why you NEVER want to sit on a rock wall in or near the woods. The mice nest in them, and they are loaded with larval ticks, which molt into nymphs. The nymphs, because of their size, are the ones most likely to transmit Lyme. The deer are the singles bar for the ticks. The adult females feed on them, and the male ticks move from female to female to mate (gigitty gigitty as Quagmire would say). The males don't really even care about a blood meal, just mating. Such is life.

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