wolfie09 Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 Another 1.25” of precipitation yesterday, 2.5” in the last 48 hours, still plenty more streaming from the south.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted July 25, 2018 Author Share Posted July 25, 2018 Picked up some rain overnight, half inch maybe max for the entire 4 day stretch. Going to Lake Placid camping next weekend, hoping for some nice weather. Saranac lake is the most beautiful spot in New York. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie09 Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 Some nasty storms rolling through, about 1/2” liquid in 15 min.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WNash Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 Shower moving south to north died as it approached the city, and a new storm popped up in the far northtowns, heading into Niagara County. Despite a pattern for six or seven days that looked like a droughtbuster, we received about 0.25 inch for the entire period, and this week is starting where last week left off. My yard is just a brown, baked prairie at this point. Our garden is barely hanging on despite diligent watering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted July 30, 2018 Author Share Posted July 30, 2018 On 7/30/2018 at 11:18 PM, WNash said: Shower moving south to north died as it approached the city, and a new storm popped up in the far northtowns, heading into Niagara County. Despite a pattern for six or seven days that looked like a droughtbuster, we received about 0.25 inch for the entire period, and this week is starting where last week left off. My yard is just a brown, baked prairie at this point. Our garden is barely hanging on despite diligent watering. Expand Yeah feel like its the first time we've had rain down here in months. Been pretty persistent for the last 2 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthBuffaloSteve Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 I'm telling you it just refuses to rain in the metro this summer. Had some hope on those cells moving north but they fizzled out like everything else has... don't think we've had a single true thunderstorm once so far this summer here. Did catch a nice rainbow though.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted July 31, 2018 Author Share Posted July 31, 2018 On 7/31/2018 at 12:23 AM, SouthBuffaloSteve said: I'm telling you it just refuses to rain in the metro this summer. Had some hope on those cells moving north but they fizzled out like everything else has... don't think we've had a single true thunderstorm once so far this summer here. Did catch a nice rainbow though... . Expand It happens every June-August. It’s by far our sunniest months. Lake shadow is a very real thing. The persistent breeze is usually sw/s which destroys convection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WNash Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 On 7/31/2018 at 12:46 AM, BuffaloWeather said: It happens every June-August. It’s by far our sunniest months. Lake shadow is a very real thing. The persistent breeze is usually sw/s which destroys convection. Expand The lake shadow is real and is most of the reason why July and August precip averages are significantly below May/June and September averages. But we’re way below those monthly averages, which shows that we are unlucky and also in an unfavorable pattern. Last week’s misses were poor luck, as much as rain shadow. That day where everything trained over the lake from south to north wasn’t a lake shadow issue, and neither were the misses at night. It’s frustrating because we put a lot of work into our garden this year, and I aerated and seeded the lawn last fall. Even daily watering isn’t saving my yard, and our garden is really puny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted July 31, 2018 Author Share Posted July 31, 2018 On 7/31/2018 at 4:25 AM, WNash said: The lake shadow is real and is most of the reason why July and August precip averages are significantly below May/June and September averages. But we’re way below those monthly averages, which shows that we are unlucky and also in an unfavorable pattern. Last week’s misses were poor luck, as much as rain shadow. That day where everything trained over the lake from south to north wasn’t a lake shadow issue, and neither were the misses at night. It’s frustrating because we put a lot of work into our garden this year, and I aerated and seeded the lawn last fall. Even daily watering isn’t saving my yard, and our garden is really puny. Expand It's been a few years in a row with a pretty bad drought. 2-3 years ago we even touched the extreme drought category if I'm not mistaken. Can you guys use a sprinkler? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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WNash Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 On 7/31/2018 at 2:01 PM, BuffaloWeather said: 2016: Expand Yeah, that was really bad, a dry winter and spring and then about half the summer precip in 2018. We've been using a sprinkler most days but with a baby and both of us working we can't run it as often or for as long as our lawn and garden really need. Our yard has an irregular shape so we would have to move it several times. We're mainly concentrating on the part of the garden with the tomatoes and peppers, and the fruit trees that went in last year. The flowers in our garden are pretty much a lost cause, and the grass is crunchy and yellow. I'm just gonna have to suck it up and aerate and seed the lawn again in the fall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted July 31, 2018 Author Share Posted July 31, 2018 On 7/31/2018 at 3:06 PM, WNash said: Yeah, that was really bad, a dry winter and spring and then about half the summer precip in 2018. We've been using a sprinkler most days but with a baby and both of us working we can't run it as often or for as long as our lawn and garden really need. Our yard has an irregular shape so we would have to move it several times. We're mainly concentrating on the part of the garden with the tomatoes and peppers, and the fruit trees that went in last year. The flowers in our garden are pretty much a lost cause, and the grass is crunchy and yellow. I'm just gonna have to suck it up and aerate and seed the lawn again in the fall. Expand A couple more weeks and the air will be cooler than the water. Hard to believe it's August already tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WNash Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 No improvement at all on the Niagara Frontier, although drought conditions improved since last week east of Rochester. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted August 2, 2018 Author Share Posted August 2, 2018 Looks wet across Eastern New York. I'll be in Lake Placid, hopefully don't get too much rain need to climb some peaks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cny rider Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 On 8/2/2018 at 10:19 PM, BuffaloWeather said: Looks wet across Eastern New York. I'll be in Lake Placid, hopefully don't get too much rain need to climb some peaks! Expand That’s funny, we are coming home tomorrow morning after 5 days in Keene Valley. We lucked out for hiking weather. No days lost to rain. Took our kids up Giant, Porter, Cascade and Indian Head. We brought passports anticipating heading to Montreal if it rained but it never happened. The drought is definitely noticeable up here, compared to home in Otsego County where we have had plentiful rainfall. Lots of dry brown dead grass up here, and the streams are all low. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted August 3, 2018 Author Share Posted August 3, 2018 On 8/2/2018 at 11:23 PM, cny rider said: That’s funny, we are coming home tomorrow morning after 5 days in Keene Valley. We lucked out for hiking weather. No days lost to rain. Took our kids up Giant, Porter, Cascade and Indian Head. We brought passports anticipating heading to Montreal if it rained but it never happened. The drought is definitely noticeable up here, compared to home in Otsego County where we have had plentiful rainfall. Lots of dry brown dead grass up here, and the streams are all low. Expand That's awesome we're planning on also doing a few of the shorter hikes as we're bringing the dog with us. It looks like it's going to be quite hot. We are staying at fish creek so there is some nice places to swim there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WNash Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 Here's yet another instance of how the bone dry conditions in the Buffalo metro are the result of bad luck compounding a bad, stagnant pattern and summer lake climatology. This summer is wearing me out. No rain but too humid and warm most days to enjoy spending time outside. Can't wait to get done with this crappy season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted August 3, 2018 Author Share Posted August 3, 2018 On 8/3/2018 at 2:37 PM, WNash said: Here's yet another instance of how the bone dry conditions in the Buffalo metro are the result of bad luck compounding a bad, stagnant pattern and summer lake climatology. This summer is wearing me out. No rain but too humid and warm most days to enjoy spending time outside. Can't wait to get done with this crappy season. Expand It's been an incredible summer so far. I know it's boring on the weather front but I enjoy my hot/humid summers quite a bit. I have been boating, fishing, swimming, beaching, jet ski, pretty much the entire summer. The best part of summer is humid walks at night under the moon, nothing beats that! Cold summers are the absolute worse. The seasons we experience in Upstate are the best IMO, if only summer would last a little longer it would be the perfect spot to live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted August 3, 2018 Author Share Posted August 3, 2018 Have you ever seen a CPC temp forecast that looks like this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WNash Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 On 8/3/2018 at 3:41 PM, BuffaloWeather said: It's been an incredible summer so far. I know it's boring on the weather front but I enjoy my hot/humid summers quite a bit. I have been boating, fishing, swimming, beaching, jet ski, pretty much the entire summer. The best part of summer is humid walks at night under the moon, nothing beats that! Cold summers are the absolute worse. The seasons we experience in Upstate are the best IMO, if only summer would last a little longer it would be the perfect spot to live. Expand We like to garden, and this has been a terrible gardening season. Coming from the south, I find hot/humid weather unbearable. I love seasonal weather here. The climo mean of 80/62 with 60 degree dews is perfect, but we averaged quite a bit warmer and more humid than that in July, and the five or six BN temp days were barely under the climo means while the hot days were way above. August is looking much the same through mid-month, and a pattern change after mid-August still isn't showing up. Those first crisp days are going to feel great, but I'm feeling skeptical that they'll be here until it's well after Labor Day. This pattern is totally dug in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted August 3, 2018 Author Share Posted August 3, 2018 On 8/3/2018 at 4:20 PM, WNash said: We like to garden, and this has been a terrible gardening season. Coming from the south, I find hot/humid weather unbearable. I love seasonal weather here. The climo mean of 80/62 with 60 degree dews is perfect, but we averaged quite a bit warmer and more humid than that in July, and the five or six BN temp days were barely under the climo means while the hot days were way above. August is looking much the same through mid-month, and a pattern change after mid-August still isn't showing up. Those first crisp days are going to feel great, but I'm feeling skeptical that they'll be here until it's well after Labor Day. This pattern is totally dug in. Expand We basically have 3 summer months here, if that. 80+ average highs. I think we have a fairly good blend of seasons. Northern Michigan rarely gets out of the 60s/70s in summer, the same for northern Maine. Those locations also have brutally cold winters with high temps in the teens and average lows below zero. I wouldn't enjoy that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted August 3, 2018 Author Share Posted August 3, 2018 Some nice slow moving pop up storms near you Nash. Any ground reports? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WNash Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 On 8/3/2018 at 7:56 PM, BuffaloWeather said: Some nice slow moving pop up storms near you Nash. Any ground reports? Expand No, everything hooked east and weakened, so not a drop until you cross Transit. Really firing off in that confluence in Niagara County, though, so that should help with their drought issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WNash Posted August 4, 2018 Share Posted August 4, 2018 Sustained heat incoming. I think we have a decent chance to break the all-time Lake Erie water temp record of 80 at Buffalo somewhere between the 16th and 18th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CNY-LES FREAK Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 The only thing I gotta say is, I hope this Winter is half as giving as this Summer is, just ridiculous. Obnoxiously Hot and Humid every damn day, WTF?Better start raining too, damn it!!Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WNash Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 On 8/6/2018 at 5:19 PM, CNY-LES FREAK said: The only thing I gotta say is, I hope this Winter is half as giving as this Summer is, just ridiculous. Obnoxiously Hot and Humid every damn day, WTF? Better start raining too, damn it!! Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk Expand Absolutely miserable outside. My daughter has respiratory issues and she looked like she was suffocating when we were out earlier. I can’t wait until this pattern breaks. Fall can’t come soon enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeltaT13 Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 Lake Erie has an insatiable appetite for convection this year. It just destroys everything. The 12z 3km NAM modeled it perfectly. Explosive convection of Southern Ontario just getting decimated as it entered NY state. Brutal stuff for those of us who like storms. Unlike most of you, I am loving this heat and humidity. It's perfect, we get both intense summers and intense winters, the best of both worlds. Plus fall is usually long and fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WNash Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 A few areas of heavy rain got shredded just as they approached the metro this evening, but finally a shower formed just southwest of Buffalo and didn’t fall apart before it got here. We had a brief downpour with almost a half inch of rain falling in 30 mins or so. That’s the most precip from a storm at my house since the first part of June. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeltaT13 Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 I would expect some flash flooding in Toronto right now. Very potent and virtually stationary cell pounding the western city and western suburbs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthBuffaloSteve Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 Finally got something! She's been roaring up the lake with a ton of thunder this morning. Warning up real early with this one. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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