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.93. Will top 1" based on radar. Then 5 days of sun. Been delaying, but really have to get the tomatoes in.

heavy rain here and some cloud to ground, but the bulk of it is over you.

Looking SSW towards Southbury/Roxbury from Bethlehem. Incoming. Brother on 84 in Brookfield had to pull over it was so severe.

Massive destructive cell over Danbury/Brookfield.

Gonna graze me to the south in about 30 mins if it holds together. Torrential rain now in Brewster/Danbury.

77.7F, dew 67.4.

Temperature 82.9 °F 53.4 °F 66.2 °F Dew Point 73.2 °F 53.1 °F 61.9 °F Hit dew high of 73.2 today at 4:05, same time my high of 82.9 came in. Pretty steamy.

Low of 53.4, at 62.1 now. Low stratus dissipated about 10 minutes ago. Sun bursting through.

And Sartrean shame. Cats express something similar when they goof up one of their acrobatic endeavors, and they know you saw it.

https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector_band.php?sat=G16&sector=ne&band=GEOCOLOR&length=24 Yeah, a little stubborn, but making progress.

They're eroding just to my west in western CT. Should have full sun within the hour.

They are far superior in my mind. The best ones come from the Indian/Atlantic ocean confluence, in waters about 400-500 feet, at temps around 45F. My GF is Dutch South African, and we go back every Feb/March for a few weeks. This year we spent a week with her family in Rustenburg, then drove for 2 days down to Cape Town- Camps Bay. Just down from our apartment is the Codfather restaurant. You pick the fresh seafood, and they prepare in front of you. I got 6 SA lobster tails, as usual. You can order them for delivery here, but it's almost less money to fly to SA to enjoy them.

Just an outstanding day. The perfect % of cloud and blue sky, and temps, breeze, and dews. 74.7 62.2 8mph

If you have central air, get your Merv-13 or higher HVAC filters, if your system can handle air flow through them. They saved me last year from eye-stinging and choking polluted Canadian air last summer.

Yes, many areas have seen a bit more sun than forecast over the last two weeks, but the overall pattern is wetter, cooler, cloudier. The fact we are getting excited over it implicitly suggests we are not seeing "enough" of it. 1 or 2 days of sun every week- or 4-6 hours/day- is not cutting it for me. To be sure, central CT looks pretty good on water vapor right now- we enjoy it for as long as it lasts.

We'll still be taking our vitamin D supplements right into June.

Wood stove going here.

Unsettled unsettled unsettled.. Next 12 days.

Yup. My brothers and I were having a beer a few nights back and we asked the question, "What is the block of 30 consecutive days you prefer over any other in a year." Mine was May 20 to June 20. September is also nice, but it didn't win the contest because of the shorter daylight and soccer mom traffic.

Planes from the northeast heading to the west coast are tracking up over Canada to avoid that massive line of severe weather. Not many gaps to maneuver through it.

Filtered sun here. Moisture to the west drying out. Shocking. If we get this low level crap to scour out, I can deal with an afternoon of cirrus.

I remember reading a social psychology/anthropology article in graduate school about this type of persistent cool, damp, and overcast weather being the driving force for the expansion of the British empire. People can't tolerate this, and it is an impetus for relocation to warmer and drier areas.

Got down to 30.7. I covered a few delicate Floating Cloud Japanese maples, just to be sure. Forecast was 27.

The guy left his mother in the pool during that???

Yes. Had a good one over the past 45 minutes. Calmed down now.