We got something like 12" Tuesday into Wednesday, then have had at least an inch every day since. It was more than my rain gauge could manage. (2" today). Flooding in the White River nearby is the worst since 1913. Several years ago we built a berm through our yard to keep water away from the house and barn because we get periodic inundation from the nearby fields, and it managed the water from this storm just fine.

IndieGG, yeah, some areas in the WV mountains got flooding rain, like Blackwater Falls state park -- there was a video of the massive water coming over the falls.

The lower part of my lot used to flood really bad until a small sinkhole opened up (underneath there's an old unused drain pipe) and now drains much it underground to the nearby border stream.

Not sure how this super el Nino will affect the Midwest, but for the West, Gulf Coast and East Coast..., should be a WET Winter. Weather patterns get STUCK now more frequently, I felt this locally over a decade ago. Getting "stuck" means persistent..., wet, drought, heat, cold, etc. Believed to be related to a decrease in the temperature differential between the tropics and the arctic, so jetstreams become sluggish and meander more. Hawaii seems to be in for a rare Hurricane, warmer tropical Pacific (el Nino) probably helped support it. Good luck with those rains in the Midwest!

Saw a FB video of a major bridge washout near Carmel, Indiana. Sorry, can't link it to show on this website.

Here you go:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.wthr.com/article/weather/weather-impact/mother-nature-always-wins-flood-waters-cut-through-hazel-dell-parkway-bridge-crews-asking-for-space-as-they-work-to-assess-damage/531-0b24d227-116f-473b-9ee1-f71e27db0881&ved=2ahUKEwjbq67bkqiWAxX54skDHYC6FmQQ0PADKAB6BAgaEAE&sqi=2&usg=AOvVaw3WzYYBvZeZHvOt9plHA-q6

Currently having an absolutely incredible downpour. Rate must be 4" an hour or more. Mad I didn't reset my rain guage from yesterday/last nights 1.25"...they are more accurate the less rain they have.

I've caught up to the 'this will be a wet summer after all' impression 41 had about a month ago. I don't have detailed notes to prove this, but starting to think that, as long as I've lived here, this might be the wettest or second wettest August where none of the rainfall so far has come from a tropical system. Just an extension of that typical summer pattern of frontal boundaries and MCC.

(of course, some of the actual _moisture_ IS coming from the tropics, but not the actual systems themselves!)

update: yep, it was 1.25" additional rain in NMT 15 minutes, the bulk of it in 10. Definitely in my top 10 heaviest rainfalls in 20 years. Parts of the yard had ponding or flowing water. At least the ground was already wet so some could absorb.

With the last hourly forecast assuring us we would get no rain, or very little if we did,

the thunder spoke, the sky darkened and it poured really hard for half an hour, then the storm trained over us for another half an hour with a nice steady, not quite as hard rain.

Not much wind and no hail here.

I knew we'd have at least an inch, but when we got home my rain gauge had 2-1/4" in it. Substantial rain, middle of August, it just doesn't get any better than this. 😁

I was planning on watering tomorrow, but I'll forget about that now. ☺️

UBG, this time of year I'd think your storms drew-up alot of moisture from the now very warm waters from the Bay just south of you.

Bill, looks like your rainstorm shows up below, but since it's "yesterdays radar", it won't after today.

https://www.wunderground.com/maps/radar/yesterday/pir

It started out as two large areas of rain and appeared it would miss us, one traveling east just south of us and the other to the north of us. But once it started, the northern most storm began 'training' and sliding to the south east, for about an hour straight.

And I'm aware these types of weather events are very hard to predict, but you have to keep those weather guys on their toes. 😉

Watering?! 0 need to water anything this Summer. Rain is pretty persistent now. See growing drought in Florida..., and this is their rainy season. South Florida having some record heat now, near 100F, which is very unusual, sure it is partyl the arid conditions. Was speaking to a gentleman visiting from Santa Fe (northern NM), they are over 7,000 feet above sea level, and rarely go over 90 in the Summer, not this Summer. He showed me a picture of a local smoke plume, looked like a mushroom cloud! He expressed a bit of cultural shock by all the rain and the all the GREEN. But like I said, it's like a facet turning on and off, now it is wide open but I can see it going into flash drought in the Fall!

46df here this morning. 🥶

But back to 80 and sunny today.

That gives us longer periods of time in the morning to work outside without the oppressive heat to deal with.

The biggest benefit of soaking rains this time of year is that they coincide with the root elongating period for most Northern Hemisphere plants, letting roots travel in the moist soil, as far out away from the tree as they prefer, without being hindered by dry soil.

I don't try to predict the future because most times, I end up being wrong. I just take what comes and deal with it accordingly. Sometimes it turns out good and sometimes not so good but why worry about things that you have no control over? Life is made to be enjoyed imo.

Not having to water also gives me more time to be a little more laid back this time of year and enjoy what I'm seeing and doing outside. It's something that I really like to do and am not as limited or time now that I'm retired. So don't burst my bubble! 🤣

Hope all that are getting extraneous amounts of rain fair well and get things repaired back under control. We still haven't had the damage on our house fixed.

A little over 1/2" rain again last night.

This was a more widespread rain, covering a large portion of the north half of MN.

A little thunder but nothing severe. Still sprinkling and dripping off the roof.

The grass was so dead looking and brown, it hasn't made a recovery yet and I haven't had to mow all this (month long?) dry spell either.

Again, a great time of year to get moisture.

Generally, here, July and August can be hot and dry for the most part.

"The biggest benefit of soaking rains this time of year is that they coincide with the root elongating period for most Northern Hemisphere plants, letting roots travel in the moist soil, as far out away from the tree as they prefer, without being hindered by dry soil."

Bud development too -- to some extent determines next season's early growth.

Oh yes, that too!

I'm beginning to learn about what you said ben, that trees/plants that have a good late summer and fall, tend come out strong in the spring.

I made sure the red pine planted Fall of 2021 as a foot and a half, field dug, didn't get too dry after a good 2025 season. This season it put on another 24" top leader growth and is 7-1/2ft. tall.

The only reason I put more trees to the south end of my yard is for screening purporses. When they were building the new apartment buildings. They had to get a variance, to build only 10 ft. from my property line and that actuated the need for more trees. ;-)

Center of the picture was wide open in 2021 (filling in nicely).

I ran into those neighbors at the farmers market the other day and they remarked on how fast my trees have grown, almost like they couldn't believe it. lol 😏

More rain here, with another 2-3/8 inches last night. I will have to bail the grass, or else figure out how to mow in the soggy mess, lol. Grateful, though, to have rain for the plants and trees.

Won't stop raining here either (NE, NJ). Mowing?! LOL, have not mowed in a while, yard is a MESS. Meantime, my friend texts me from Austria today, severe drought, no rain, high heat, rivers and lakes drying up, water table drying out in the foothills and plains of the Alps. Locals can't relate to the new desert like climate. Guess I prefer the big WET to the crazy DRY at the end of the day.

We got rain here, too! Not a whole lot, but at least it's something. A bit overnight, and then heavy showers this morning. It's clearing out now but forecasted for later today, too...we'll see...

I really wish I would have slit open the 4 big peat bales I bought but honestly I didn't think it would actually rain -- much more often than not the forecast is wrong lately. So now I will be spending all afternoon wetting peat in a big wheelbarrow, or at least until my wrists give out. Opening up the bales to the rain would have helped somewhat, at least. Oh well.

"The only reason I put more trees to the south end of my yard is for screening purporses."

Yep, same here for me except it's down by the road. I live on a dirt road, but it's a main county road so there's more traffic than I expected when I moved here, even moreso the last couple years because they opened up some recreational trails not too far away.

Strongest electrical storm here last nite in a couple years -- a flash a second for an hour, but mostly cloud lightning, not ground strikes. Not much wind either. 1.84 inches.

Fall is creeping closer.

Our sun is 13d lower than it was at the equinox.

Still showing low 80's for highs the next 10 days.

45d for the low next Friday, then warming again.

The extended forecast for here shows a mild September and no killing frosts until first week of October (getting to be the 'norm' around here).

I hope it stays on the cool side after that, so everything shuts down properly

Autumn is LOVELY here, it never wants to end. No frost till November

Not great. Mostly triple digit highs and about 0.25" of rain all month. Hills are brown. Grass is brown and even my established trees in my valley are dropping a lot of leaves. Looks like another fall color bust around here. I CAN'T WAIT for a real fall cold front to push through. Looks like that won't be until September. Highs in the upper 90's to triple digits for the next week and a half.

John, where are you located? LOL, once peeps go back to school and work, the rain will turn off and the temps rise, seems to happen EVERY YEAR. (NJ/Zone 7a/b). Ironically, sun always feeling more burning in September than in mid summer, atmospheric humidly is much lower, no clouds..., endless sunny days. They used to call it "Indian Summer" but that term is probably not PC today, LOL

Convective cluster of TStorms over the eastern Delmarva area of MD and DE. This time of year nearby very warm ocean water can feed these systems.

JIT rain last night. Off & On thunder and lightning with heavy rain at times.

1.6" so far and still raining. ⛈️☺️

edit: 1.8" total.

Rain for us here, too. Started after midnight, still raining at 10:00 am. A good, steady soaker. Desperately needed!

Done with the rain here this Summer..., rain and thunderstorms every day for next week. Hired a guy to chop down the raiforest of weeds in my yard. I am no match for 7 feet plus of Scotish Thistle! Hoping weather pattern changes soon.

I'd much rather deal with that than see entire hills already defoliated from drought and heat. Some hillsides look like winter in my area already, about 2-3 months ahead of normal.

I'm in the Arkansas River Valley, btw.

Wow, did not realize that there was drought in Arkansas now.

A quick little over .25" from this (and counting) means I'm at already at 0.75" for September. Definitely the wettest start to the month for reasons other than tropical systems. September, in a 'normal' year, often starts quite dry and depends more than any other month on tropical moisture. So, I'm happy as a clam and am about to start on a tranche of fall planting that I was waiting on. "Are we going back into a very dry pattern"? It was starting to look like we might. I always like to talk about how my understanding of my own garden evolves: I am now thinking of early fall as the best planting season here, far more than I used to. For all but the very tenderish of things for which you want them to get extra established. So, the Coprosma I'm experimenting with, got planted this spring. If it dies, it dies. It's certainly rare on the east coast, but isn't an incredibly charismatic plant regardless. (I forget the cultivar, Ian of Desert NW thinks it is one of the hardiest of these shrubs from NZ. Frankly, this summer was the first test it had to get through, and without any anti-fungals, even biological ones, it did.*)

* - oh just realized that the version of promix I used in the past couple years is the form with both microbial additives...so that statement is not entirely true

Roofers are banging away with the air guns today.

Should be done by sometime this afternoon.

JIT for the Rainy season here.

Good temps for working, some of these guys worked through near 100's this summer.

Should be done by sometime this afternoon.

JIT for the Rainy season and cooler temperatures coming.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

ps. sorry david, we must've posted simultaneously.

Upper Bay, it has been raining here all of August, more flooding rains overnight, but I think it will turn on a dime and will be in DRY for much of September and October, then a big WET WINTER! P.S., Same, I see no participation in precip from subtropical systems, none NEEDED! Absolutely saturated here.

Some pretty strong squall-line type cluster TStorms have been barreling southeast from the Great Lakes area here into the mid-Atlantic state area last couple days. Alot of rain in some areas -- brother's place in Bedfrod PA has had 4+ inches, me about 2 inches. Looks like right now another cluster in Michigan aiming toward the same area. The forecasts have been blowing it w/their small amounts of forecasted rain.

" Some pretty strong squall-line type cluster TStorms have been barreling southeast from the Great Lakes area here into the mid-Atlantic state area last couple days." yep and those feel unusual for this time of year. Do I agree w/41 we could swing back to a dry pattern? Possibly. But the trend this year has been 'dry pattern looks like it's starting, then breaks down'.

I'm still planning on planting a bunch of stuff this weekend, because, unlike 2024 and 2025, the soil isn't bone dry from dry summer stretches. If I have to do a little watering through a dry early fall, that will be fine.

Real touches of fall coming up for NE at least. First is Labor Day and then again 4-6 days later. Cool coming from the north and northeast.

We got hammered twice with the storms, first Wednesday and then Thursday, I was without power, it came back on for a short while and then wham! we got hit again, was out for a day and half. I didn't suffer any damage to my home or property, thankfully, and I'm glad for even more precipitation -- it's been a great week for that. IDK how much I actually got, though.

"The forecasts have been blowing it w/their small amounts of forecasted rain."

Blowing it is putting it nicely...

Birds taking advantage of the north & northeast winds in the east/midwest US to assist in their migrations. One might guess monarchs would too.

A tenth and a half rain here on Sunday.

Another 2.5 tenths today.

Beautiful late Summer weather.

~80 for highs, ~60 for lows.

Looking like 3 more days in the triple digits and then we will FINALLY hopefully be in the 90's if not even lower from here on out!! Praise the Lord, after 42 days of 100+ this summer, we are all ready for some stinkin relief!

Edit: still around 0.3" of rain since the end of July when we got around an inch. Less than 1.5" since the middle of July. Everything is fried and the ground is cracked and crusty.

The recent US drought monitor shows the droughts are scattered but bad along the Arkansas River.

John, at least you can hope that many long-range forecasts showing a cooler and wetter winter for your area will occur, below:

https://www.weatherbell.com/winter-2026-27-preview

Reasonable rain here since May, but the water table indicated by my border stream (and other waterways) is still as low as I've seen in 20+ yrs. Guess is that the drought the previous 9 months before May is still showing effects and the rain since May has all been used by vegetation.

" Reasonable rain here since May, but the water table indicated by my border stream (and other waterways) is still as low as I've seen in 20+ yrs. Guess is that the drought the previous 9 months before May are still showing effects and the rain since May has all been used by vegetation. " Bingo. Same thing here.

OTOH, the mid-level soil moisture (6-18" down) IS better than it's been since the summer 2024 dry spell, so that's a relief. I had talked in another thread about my plan to build a 'reverse root protection zone' near a colony of Toona 'Flamingo', to allow a ginger lily to grow in its shade zone w/o getting swamped by runners. I will finally be able to do that this weekend, hopefully. You'd think dry soil would make digging with the backhoe easier in some ways...first let me say it wouldn't matter with a big professional backhoe. Because dry clumps can be easier to manage in terms of moving them somewhere else. (in my case, just back into the hole, without destroying the nearby lawn) But on the little one on the back of a Kubota BX, if you're already going to be fighting tree roots, you don't want to also be fighting the resistance of dry soil.

Tornado warning sirens going off in town here earlier this evening but the map of the warnings was north of here several miles.

FB showing a lot of wind damage in my old neck of the woods to the NE.

This thing below, trained over my place for about an hour. Last I checked, the rain gauge showed 2-1/2" but it's still raining. It wasn't all that dry yet, bc of lighter rains a week ago.

Another JIT rain.

No damage, no hail, not much wind at my place.

But now it appears that our summer is coming to an end.

We've had low 80's for highs this last week and now it's going to be decidedly cooler from now on. Sun is almost 20d lower at high noon than it was at the summer equinox.

The moisture will stay around here longer now and heat stress won't be a factor, it is nice to go into Fall with good ground moisture too. And we might get a warm spell yet in October.

Time to start getting my yard ready for winter while it's still halfway nice out there. ;-)

Bill, I've noticed for the last 20 or even more yrs, at least in general, is warmer falls and colder springs.

You never know around here. We had several high 70's and an 80d back middle of April this spring. Other than that, it was a very normal winter and spring but being the snow was gone and the ground was thawed already, that several day anomaly was enough to take out the marginaly zone hardy, which were not frost hardy, plants for me.

The temps went back to teens and twenties for several days after that thaw.

We didn't get a hard freeze last May but the damage was already done.

It doesn't take much of a change in the wind direction to cause all that when the lands south of us have already warmed up appreciably.

We often get a spell in January or February where temperature go way above normal (60's & 70's for a few days) and that doesn't hurt anything in itself, if there's a good snow cover and the ground stays frozen, keeping everything dormant (might get some sun damage then).

Today, steady rain started about 8:30 this morning, with on and off heavy showers.

Over 1" in the gauge already and it's supposed to go on until later on this afternoon. First nice all day rain we've had here, I'd say in years.

Cloudy, 51 degrees, no wind, no hail but occasional rumbles of thunder.

68-71d highs the next 10 days with a couple of 41d lows thrown in there.

Could be we're moving into a wetter climate, idk (so much for the Langbeinite). 🥲

edit: 1-3/10ths inches.

The cold front was a lie! Back to back triple digits yesterday and today and they are forecast every day until Sunday, now. We did get about 1.5" or so Friday (that doesn't show on the included graphic) when the high dropped ALL THE WAY DOWN to 94* And, unfortunately, no more rain forecast until maybe Sunday if the front actually comes through this time. I've lost a lot of ornamental trees and shrubs now. This is going to have a major impact on the local forests for years to come.

John, where along the Arkansas river are you? I see serious drought along most of it, but worse farther west.

I'm in the Arkansas River Valley near Fort Smith. It's west central Arkansas where the river crosses the Oklahoma/Arkansas state line.

As for the drought, we ended last year really dry. It's been so hot for so long now. We've had about 3" of rain in the last 3 months which coincides with the onset and duration of triple digit highs. What moisture we did have in the soil is long gone now.

Coolest fall temp so far here -- 44.5F. Certainly Canaan Valley WV was down near freezing.

You guys are well aheard of the curve, locals having to deal with temps in the upper 50's as if entering the next ice age. I love our Autumns, very nice sunny and dry weather. Sun still feels surprisingly HOT. Soil mositure is excellent as there was a day long delunge last weekend. No hurricanes in the Atlantic at the peak of the season..., very weird season. Much of our Autumn precip depends on tropical moisture, but so far, we are getting the rain from non-tropical systems. Guessing our winter will be mild and WET in a super strong El Niño year