Local news should show us rainfall accumulation maps or stats (Syracuse: 2009, home)

[bellafinzi]

Channel 3 and channel 9 should show us maps of rainfall accumulation in Onondaga County after each rain event. I'm not getting nearly as much rain as the airport is reporting and I'm only a few miles away from it.

Yesterday I dug a hole in my garden for a plant. About two inches deep in the soil and it was completely dry.

I was hoping for over an inch of rain today with heavy down pours. No luck. Just drizzle and sprinkles all day. What a waste of a June day! Too cold for much plant growth. Not enough rain to help plants grow. Couldn't even work the soil much either since it was so muddy.

Every time I glanced at the local radar today all the heavy rain was over Elbridge, Camillus, Baldwinsville, the city or Cayuga County. I kept waiting and waiting for that heavy rain to come closer to the North Syracuse area....IT NEVER HAPPENED!

There must be a hole in the atmosphere over my part of town because all the heavy rain morphs around me. So very strange!

Now with so little rain, I'm back to watering again tomorrow.

[boomvang]

That is strange. Rained cats and dogs all last night and all day today here in Pompey. I really must make a rain gauge, but I think we received at least 4 inches over the last week or so. Weather maps are showing the entire eastern seaboard affected, it's weird that you have been skunked.

[bellafinzi]

Originally Posted by boomvang

That is strange. Rained cats and dogs all last night and all day today here in Pompey. I really must make a rain gauge, but I think we received at least 4 inches over the last week or so. Weather maps are showing the entire eastern seaboard affected, it's weird that you have been skunked.

I know it's weird!!!

That's why I'd love to actually see a close-in map of Onondaga County's precipitation history over the last day, week or month. I think you'll notice that the area surrounding the Taft Road and Buckley Road intersection had substantially less rainfall than the rest of the county. Really like to see if I'm proven right or am I just nuts!

I want to apologize in advance for using this forum as an outlet for my frustrations with the weather lately, either I do this or I hold it all in and crazy. LOL

[proulxfamily]

Interesting! Like boomvang, we've had a TON of rain this week... my 36 tomato plants are getting rainforest-like and the zucchini are going nuts. Tons of large yellow blossoms have come out in the past few days- heh, I didn't even think the plants were large enough to flower yet!

[bellafinzi]

The 80s keep being pushed back in the forecast! Unbelievable. I've never witnessed so many weeks of temperatures below normal this time of year.

Last week was forecasted to be in the low 80s the whole week.

Not one day did we hit 80.

On Friday all the local forecasts shows 80s starting Monday this week. Now it's Sunday and the forecast calls for 70s on Monday and Tuesday and low 80s on Wednesday.

When is that jet stream going to move north of us?

Yuccas should only be moved in the heat to help them recover. I moved two last week thinking it was going to be warm the rest of the week. One isn't looking too good right now. I want to move another plant that needs heat when transplanting but I'm waiting for those 80s that never come.

[bellafinzi]

The plants with shallow root systems are fine. Like the lawn looks lush and green. Peas are loving this cool weather and their root systems don't run deep so I'm not worried about them.

The plants that need a deep soaking rain are the ones I'm always worried about. The rain just isn't penetrating the soil deep enough. The evergreen shrubs, magnolias and other trees I've planted in the last couple years are ones that need extra irrigation since they aren't established and are in soil that is well-drained. And I have a dense tree canopy in one part of the yard that barely gets wet unless we receive a very heavy down pour for more than 10 minutes. I've had to build a raise bed there because the maple tree roots were almost impenetrable and the tree roots seem to soak up much of the rain.

[bellafinzi]

Spring Stats from the Syracuse Post Standard

-This was the coldest spring in Syracuse since 1993

-2009 was the 31st coolest spring

-0.7 of snowfall fell in Syracuse this spring

-Average last freeze/frost is April 29, this spring it was May 19th.

-Almost 11 inches rainfall this spring at the airport, 1/3 fell in the last 10 days

[bellafinzi]

Anyone get rain today?

I didn't!

Back to watering.....

[proulxfamily]

We went swimming at my mom's in Fabius-Pompey today and it started POURING at 3:45... drove home to Manlius and an hour later, another front came through. The road was like a river. I'm glad we came home early and got the clothes off the line.

[bellafinzi]

Had a very light shower this morning, but nothing to give me a break from watering yet....