Juliancolton

It's the same here. I haven't mowed in a couple weeks, and while a few areas are a little unkempt, I could definitely get away with just letting it be until we get some wet wx again.

I can't wait for my 0.06" on Wednesday from the Barry vorticity. NEUS tropical season in full swing.

I'm forced to douse my cucurbits with Sevin to kill cucumber beetles that would otherwise eat plants down to their stalks within days of a missed application (and no pepper spray/vinegar/neem/CBD oil potion is up to the task). I simply have no choice if I want to grow any squash. As a consequence, pollinators are totally absent and every morning I have to spent 45 minutes pollinating by hand. It's a pretty rotten state of affairs.

Imagine describing a daytime power outage as post-apocalyptic

It's hard to put it into words when they're really going crazy. Closest thing is camera flashes at major sporting events (though I'm not sure that's as big a thing now that more people are learning their on-board flash doesn't reach 700 feet down to the field), but you're totally immersed in it. My beach vacation isn't until the end of August so we may have quite a wait before the next rainy week.

I had a T yesterday and 0.27" on the month so far.

We doldrums

And up here I have to water every single day to keep gardens from crumbling into dust...

Sounds nice. It's been a solid first 1/3 of summer in terms of weather, with plenty of bright, seasonably warm days and just enough rain to keep everything green and fresh.

Stunning fireworks at Lake Carmel tonight, as usual. It's a definite sleeper contender for best display in the HV.

Just this morning I had to disassemble my window unit for a deep cleaning after it started smelling musty. Drip pan was clogged with decomposing pine needles and filled with water... yuck. But now clean as a whistle, and I can say I've installed twice in one summer.

It's always cool when you can see lightning from multiple states away.

Within the last couple years, I believe, NY started counting hours of instruction instead of days. The benefit is that you can still add to the yearly total on days when you don't reach the 5 or 5.5-hour threshold. The drawback is that if you aren't extremely careful in managing this new flexibility, you can end up short 1 hour at the end of the year...

Heavy convective shower chucking it down atm, cutting sunset and my evening patio cigar short. Now over an inch of rain on the day.

Not sure about swept, but they certainly got carried away when they bought that Land Rover...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ---- NWS Eastern Region Headquarters, Bohemia, NY — On the heels of a years-long campaign to keep motorists out of hazardous flooding situations, the NWS has acknowledged its folly in attempting to craft a mnemonic device without first consulting someone who knows even the first thing about rhyming. This conspicuous oversight doomed the previous disaster mitigation mantra – Turn Around, Don't Drown – to a fate of universal mockery and defiance. No longer content to endure merciless derision from our own families, we set about to overhaul our flash flood guidance. After conferring with America's finest psychologists, first responders, and wise-asses in lifted pickup trucks, the NWS is proud to announce its new Tweet-optimized flash flooding tagline: Go Fast, Create A Bow Wave™

Which, I mean... lawns are extremely silly. Instead of being able to make actual improvements to your property, you have to spend the week's only dry day just maintaining the status quo.

Quite literally everyone on my street took the afternoon off to mow during this brief reprieve from the wet conditions. A mighty din of rattling engines greets you immediately upon egress from the house.

Sun's coming out now after .61" of rain. Might have a decent afternoon before more showers move in this evening.

They do issue one-time permits for the Mid-Hudson Astronomical Association to hold their monthly meetups there, so the short answer is yes, although I believe it's only for groups and needs to be approved some time in advance. As far as I'm aware, there's no corresponding (official) avenue for individuals to obtain the same special privileges. Light pollution will handily eliminate Milky Way viewing in the Hudson Valley within the next 5-10 years, so it'll soon be less of a pressing issue for me. Between the dust and the pollen, I don't even have to walk when I go outside anymore... just stand with my back toward the direction of travel and let my sneezes propel me.

I don't think it rained here Wednesday. Been a dry start to the month in stark contrast to May, with less than 0.4" through the first 8 days. Won't be long now before every conversation starts with "boy, we could really use the rain"... I haven't done the trails around Lake Taghkanic, but been to the west beach many times for stargazing/astrophotography. It's one of the darkest spots east of the river until you get all the way to probably Pharaoh Lake. Sadly (but not surprisingly, since that's just how these things work) it's the only state park where I reliably get shooed off by the park police for being there after hours. Sometimes I can avoid them before Memorial Day and after Labor Day when they only do a couple rounds per night.

The 00z Albany balloon was within a degree of minimum climo 850mb temp, and radiating conditions are close to ideal. 44/42 at the moment. If sunrise were an hour or two later, I'd have some serious frost concerns. As it stands, not difficult to envision getting down to 37-38 and putting the brakes on plant vigor for the next week.

26/31... lol. Insanity.

Hey @gravitylover, figured you'd appreciate that since it's still raining after midnight, I'll have 25 of 31 days in May with at least a T of rain, 23 with measurable.

7.69" here. Somewhat impressive to get into the high single digits with zero (afaik?) hydro issues.