Where are you mastiffhoo? Very, very dry here in NJ as well. It basically stopped raining normally in early April. Ever since then, it's been hit or miss (but mostly miss storms). The normal afternoon thunderstorms did not occur. When it did storm, the storms spawned tornadoes in unusual places tornadoes (like Brooklyn). I continue to be surprised by the relative lack of news coverage or heightened drought precautions. Good news seems to be that the hurricane center is predicting a new tropical storm to eventually form in the Caribbean and interact with a stalled cold front in the East. This could bring widespread rain over much of the drought plagued East. If this doesn't pan out, we may have to wait until later into the Fall and Winter to get any decent rains. Ironically, it has been VERY WET in the the middle of the country all Summer to the present, and Los Angeles and S.F. had a record cold and cloudy Summer! This year, the climate's been very Mediterranean here--except much hotter and more HUMID. Wonder how this is going to be affecting our trees and shrubs!

We have ALL your rain,you guys can come and get it anytime you want!