[Cambium]

You wanna see why we're getting this pattern in August? In simple terms... There's a Vortex in Canada which is pushing the Jet stream down in Eastern U.S.


Current Upper level flow. I LOVE these NW flows in summer. Brings drier air and breezy conditions, while staying warm (not hot) in Summer.

[JD_MD]

Would love for it to stay this way into September.

[Cambium]

What I'm doing right now....

[KEVIN_224]

Just now for New Britain: 81 degrees. Dew point of 52. Sunrise and set today are (I believe) 5:56 AM and 7:58 PM (14h 2m).

[WouldLoveTo]

I had to turn my wakeup light on 2 weeks ago

I hope Cam enjoyed today! I weeded and mulched early then sat on the deck reading the rest of the day

[rubygreta]

Weather looks great into next weekend. With the exception of that brutal 3-day heat wave, this is the best summer I remember in a long time. Usually August has many days of cloudy damp weather. Not this year!

[Solstodur]

Tuesday could have some dangerous weather. Flash flooding, instability, I would not rule out a tornado somewhere in CT tomorrow... watch out!

[Cambium]

Radar and temp loop past 4 hrs. I had a quick shower at 6am then heavier shower at 9am. Up to 0.18" for the day so far. Heavy rain will be on and off today and scattered. Which means you might not get anything but your neighboring town will

[Poseidon3290]

Well, I've moved south and I can tell you that it has rained everyday, heavy, just for a little bit, for two weeks in my part of the Sunshine state... humidity is off the charts and the rain always comes with a thunderstorm... it's weird getting used to this weather... the thunder also seems more impressive and I've seen MANY more straight to the ground lightning, seems like the locals here just accept it and hardly change their plans..

Any day that I have to drive anywhere far I end up in blinding rain, to the point where you have to pull over, happened just today on a 20 mile drive.. by the time I got to the destination the sun was out and roads were dry. Sure is weird... Suppose it's because the state is just so much bigger..

[KEVIN_224]

Some rain is needed. The ground does look quite dry. That's based on 13 of the 15 times I've checked between 1 AM to 5:30 AM, in areas of Newington, Rocky Hill, Wethersfield, Berlin and New Britain. This is what the folks at University of Nebraska - Lincoln are saying now:

Northeast:

Rainfall amounts varied considerably across the region. Most sites recorded 0.5 to 1.5 inches, but some areas reported more (up to 3 inches in northern New England and West Virginia) and others less (a few tenths in the southwestern quarter of Pennsylvania, northern and east-central New York, and the lower reaches of Vermont and New Hampshire). The region remained drought-free, but patches of abnormal dryness (D0) cover northwestern Connecticut and surrounds, northernmost New York, central Vermont and west-central New Hampshire, southern Maine, and southern West Virginia. Only 10 to 40 percent of normal rainfall covered northern New York and southern Maine over the past 30 days while 60-day totals were 50 to 75 percent of normal in central Vermont, west-central New Hampshire, northwestern Connecticut, and southern West Virginia.

Something else was quite jarring last night! The full moon was out in force over Newington and Rocky Hill until nearly 3:30 AM. Then the fog came in. It was pretty thick for a while around Berlin. It lifted a bit after 4:30 AM. Never did see the moon again after 3:30!