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Here we go. Days and days and days of watching. Then Ernie will make the big loop around the Bermuda high and look like he's coming but out then just giving us a night or two of great sunsets.

Main line is through. We do not have any power. About 1.25 in the stratus in the past hour. That brings me to 1.75 ish so far today

72/71 Moderate rain. Winds sustained mostly near 20mph but gusting to 35. I tried to make a video but missed the big gusts. Definitely stormy eve. You can hear the roar through the glass and Tessie our cat was not impressed.

Perfect day up here. 72/57 few Cu. A couple of days ago I made a time-lapse of a thunderstorm that hit our area. The storm came in very quickly and it was fun to see the shelf cloud just overhead.

Congrats to me. First real thunderstorm of the season. Lots of lightning no wind .70" and still going 66/63 feels nice and cool

Steined in Dendriteland. Our 8-foot pond is now bone dry. It is man-made so has happened a few times at the end of the summer but not this early. I was able to mow the whole bowl this weekend. Grass is getting crisp.

Yesterday, Brian posted something to the effect that he was glad it's not the 1960s or 70s in regard to having an interest in weather. I agree! I was born in 1956 and grew up in these decades. Other than Don Kent or waiting for the National Weather Service phone update, there was not much weather info in the 1960s. I know Don Kent relied on Ham radio. He also knew New England weather. One of his rules was if it is over 25F on MWN and a storm was coming up the coast then Boston would have mostly rain. It seemed like there were many more Miller A's back then?? Things started to change slightly in the 1970s with crude satellite pictures on TV. My folks were divorced, so I spent much of this period between Metro Boston and Metro Baltimore. In the very early 70s I was very friendly with Bob Turk who was on WJZ TV in Baltimore. Since I lived NW of the city before he went on air he would sometimes call me and ask me to scan the skies. I would stand on my hilltop and scan the horizon for thunderstorms. I would also scan my AM radio to hear lightning static. I called that SPM (statics per minute) and I could tell by volume or frequency if storms were approaching. Of course, no one knew exactly where they were until they hit. Dialing a number more than 25 miles away was usually long distance and expensive for small talk. In the mid 70s I was in collage at the University of Maryland. I hated high math and physics, so ended with a degree in Physical Geography. I took some Met. Courses and intern shipped 6 months at the NWS at BWI. I remember in 1978 getting the first crude radar scans on facsimile type machines. Lots of hanging charts. Was it the LFM model? Part of my internship was making the hourly broadcast on NOAA weather radio which was the newest big way to get info. We called it the Balt/Washington now cast. I was down there for the Blizzard of 78. I remember days ahead, they knew it was going to be a strong storm. Fast-forward to moving back to Boston full-time after school. By 1979 TV forecasts like Bruce and Barry, Harvey were stating to show crude radar. That helped in the short term as you could see where the precip was. So really up until the internet the only information I can remember getting was TV, radio or the newspapers. Big change in the Mid 90s with the internet. Very slow bandwidth and downloading graphics tied up your phone line forever if you wanted to view a graphic, but it changed everything. Todd Gross was the first Boston Met to use the internet. He started the Boston weather net. Local enthusiasts could post obs, but not many people had computers. Computer Cafe were becoming popular. Pay by the minute to get on the net. I went to Harvard Square to see what it was all about. I was blown away! A couple dozen weather sites on Web crawler and Netscape, some of the first search engines. I was hooked! The next day I went out and spent a ton of money on my first PC. Nowadays, anyone with a deep passion for Meteorology can learn so much. Definitely the info age.

75/59F few Cu but smoke layer above is keeping the sky a bit murky looking

Fantastic afternoon. 76/59 nice dry breeze and some Cu and Cirrus. For what it's worth the 12Z Euro has quite a lot of rain for me next week. Over 4". It's like looking at the clown maps in winter. I see people are talking about living in the 60s and 70s and weather stuff. I was born in 1956 and I was interested in weather as a kid. I'll have to post what it was like pre internet, satellite and radar.

Scored another .30" last night. This brings the event total to 1.5".

Finally rain. Over the last 30 days my total rainfall had been .95". We received .80" today. Congrats to earth. Sunday was the warmest day in recorded history. Speaking of that, I just finished a great book called "A tree grows in Brooklyn". It was written in 1943 about the life in Brooklyn around 1910. There were numerous mentions of sleds being used in winter to get around. The book also talks about how the stars lit up the night sky over NYC. I just found that all interesting. What will the climate be like in New England in another 100 years?

77/60F feels so cool!

Another miss today. .12" it brings me to a little over .50" for the month. Long wait for the next chance unless we get a few more light showers tonight. For everyone else, enjoy your rain and storms

....and just like that, the line starts splitting and I'm going through the weakest part. Let's see how much rain falls!

Ha, thanks Scott. Good catch. I changed it. It should have said this month!

Going to be interesting. Only .37" so far this month here. We have not had one bona fide thunderstorm this season. Looking forward to a good storm.

Hey, just checking in from the mountains of NH. I grew up in Baltimore. Maybe someone on this thread knows the answer? When was an excessive heat warning issued last down there? I imagine it doesn't happen very often. I hate heat and humidity and moved up here long ago to get away. Now even up here the climate is getting hotter. Didn't even have a 0F night this past season. Enjoy your heat. I'll take my 84/63 right now. Wxeyenh

85/75 Wow, warm front has passed with a big jump in the dews.

84/70F Very hazy, high cirrus. Really need rain. It's looking more and more like a near miss.

We definitely need the rain around here. My favorite type of weather, Bahama blues inbound

Finally a bit of rain yesterday and this morning. .25" yesterday and again today. It has been very dry. Also we have not had one thunderstorm yet this season. A few flashes of lightning here and there but no bona fide storm. 80/75F from the tropics of CNE

High was only 61.8F for me. About .30" so far. Maybe tomorrow my first real thunderstorm of the year?

It seems like the models are slowing down Sunday's fropa. That might extend the slight risk up here. Last week we were stuck in the low 60s and low status during the tornado watch. My friends kidded me for honking a bit, as we just had some rain showers and a few distant claps of thunder. Still waiting for my first bona fide thunderstorm of the season. meanwhile, I had to suffer through another boring weather day today.

There is something about it, I totally agree John. Just the dark blue sky, crispy outlined Cu. A few rain shafts here and there but brilliant sun too. All that is missing is the warm aqua ocean and bright sandbars underneath.

I know it is one of your favorite types of weather. Me too!