July 2026

[MANDA]

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.

 

 

[IrishRob17]

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.

 

 

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. 

[MANDA]

Rainfall totals yesterday.  You either got in on it or you didn't.

Click map to enlarge.

[MANDA]

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.

[IrishRob17]

Just now, MANDA said:

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.

My records go back to 2005. 

[MANDA]

This is what I could find on the fly.  Have to get out the door.  Will dig further for max monthly.

Note: I don't track by calendar day.  Obs. are from 8am - 8am.

 

[rclab]

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 …..

[ForestHillWx]

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

[MANDA]

3 minutes ago, ForestHillWx said:

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

Been a while since things were this green and this well watered at the mid point of Summer.  Still some long term dryness going on but big improvements over NNJ last several weeks. 

[BobbyHolikWillFindYou]

Mosquito explosion incoming?

[IrishRob17]

Just now, BobbyHolikWillFindYou said:

Mosquito eruption incoming?

That already happened up here, its right up there with the worst I've ever seen. Yesterday will only prolong that misery. 

[BobbyHolikWillFindYou]

2 minutes ago, IrishRob17 said:

That already happened up here, its right up there with the worst I've ever seen. Yesterday will only prolong that misery. 

Ticks are going to love this too. Ugh.

[WeatherGeek2025]

Do you guys think those showers make it to the city?

[Brian5671]

16 minutes ago, WeatherGeek2025 said:

Do you guys think those showers make it to the city?

It's a couple hundreths of an inch at best

[winterwx21]

1 minute ago, Brian5671 said:

It's a couple hundreths of an inch at best

Very little activity today too. Probably 90% of the area will stay dry. 

[Brian5671]

11 minutes ago, winterwx21 said:

Very little activity today too. Probably 90% of the area will stay dry. 

Drier air is also filtering in this afternoon as the front clears us

[hudsonvalley21]

1 hour ago, IrishRob17 said:

That already happened up here, its right up there with the worst I've ever seen. Yesterday will only prolong that misery. 

The mosquito activity has ramped up here as well in the last few days.

[SACRUS]

Dewpoints dropping to the mid - low 60s

 

86/64

[SnoSki14]

Looks like an overall great stretch of weather coming up. Near normal temps, pleasant nights and mornings with lower dews. Drier weather 

[Picard]

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.

[Evie3]

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.

[nycsnow]

Some models hinting at popping a weak coastal a week from now 

[doncat]

90° for some stations today ... 89° here.

[JustinRP37]

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.