CoolHandMike

Did not have "spring-type thunderstorm knocking out power to my hotel in November" on my bingo card. Whelp... Flashy-flash! Thunderboom! Aaaand there goes the power. I'm in Newark, DE for work, and it's 11/20. But hey, at least it's freaking RAINING, finally??? So I guess we've all got that going for us, which is nice.

1" of rain since early August. Loving the cooler weather (finally) but cheese and rice will it please just rain again. Getting pretty depressed continually not seeing even a hint of rain in the ten-day forecast. WTF is even going on.

.01" for the night. What a lovely time watching all of these storms blow up all around me. Looks like I'll be watering the garden again tomorrow. What a joke the forecast turned out to be this weekend. Hope somebody cashed in at least. It wasn't us.

I went outside just now to bring the trash can back in and whoof! The smoke is back... I could sense it in my lungs for a full ten minutes after spending just a minute or two outside. It appears we have a new season. Smoke season. I am not a fan.

Can confirm, we got 1.21" in a very short span of time. It even managed to flood out parts of Rt 12 near me. I was pissed. I left a box of small fireworks outside to play with while I was grilling, and then we went inside to play pictionary and I forgot all about it. Completely ruined. I just hope my smoker is ok once it dries out because I was letting it cool down before I put the cover back on. Oh well.

.01" here for the day, partly sunny now. Kinda meh but hearing lots of thunder in the distance.

My PWS says it's 95 out, and I was all, "that can't be right, can it?" Well here's the local weather station: We went outside to put some bird netting over our berry bushes and were pretty much instantly drenched. SO GLAD I moved all of that mulch yesterday!!!

.89" for the night. I think we're past it now, not bad.

Ooh, getting that familiar distant rolling thunder right now. This is gonna be spicy. I'm here for it!

.55" here. Looks like some heavy thunder boomers might make it to us in an hour or so.

It's nice to have a non-apocalyptic, regular summertime thunderstorm for a change. Moderate to heavy rain, occasional, far-off thunder booms and very little wind, even with the gust front. My garden will love this.

I don't like the look of that cell SW of Carlisle:

Just moved ~5 yards of mulch to the back garden. I am beat. And also drenched, but hey, at least the sun wasn't out! Had to do it today or it would have probably sat there until October the way this year is going... Blech:

Just don't want a repeat of this is all (precip):

Dude it was so windy here yesterday that my flag somehow came loose from the holder on my front door frame and FLEW OVER my house, pole and all, landing in the back yard.