Cape May and Atlantic County took the brunt of it. Woodbine was over 6in in less than 24 hours but a very narrow area, plus they can handle it with the high amount of sand in the soil. Not a high population area. No real concerns. Getting rain now.
#s What site will show rain amounts daily by zip code. We had about 45 minutes of rain this am. Suns out now
In Newark and Hillsborough earlier this year and 2 years ago
I didn't post any expected rainfall maps - those were radar estimates of how much rain fell over a specific period.
Played in a disc golf tourney at RU today with two rounds taking from about 9 am until 4:30 pm. Barely a shower in NB the first round with clouds and high humidity and then late in the round the sun came out and really turned up the heat from about 11 am through the afternoon. Was just soupy, lol, and I was drenched by the end of it - luckily there was some shade on most of the holes, but I still got a bit of a sunburn, even with sunscreen. But I'll take heat/humidity over rain for playing disc golf every time.
For NJ, it's easy, as the site linked below has daily rainfall amounts for dozens of sites (not by zipcode though, but not hard to find a location near any NJ zipcode), plus the 2nd link has rainfall data displayed graphically for NJ (for the past 24 hours or shorter periods).
I use this one also
Definitely a major bust, but no idea what you mean by they need to "come to heel." Usually, that implies someone or some organization needs to submit and obey to someone else. That's just silly here, as meteorology isn't some rogue operation. Most of the models were wrong (the NAM was the absolute worst), meaning the NWS and just about every other forecaster were wrong, as they rely heavily on the models. It happens on occasion and it's far more likely to happen in extremely complex setups like this one, where the energy and moisture in the atmosphere were at record levels and when that occurs the actual outcomes often are far different from what is modeled, given the chaotic nature of numerical weather prediction as a mathematical science.
Here's the crazy radar estimate precip over the last 24 hours, showing an incredibly steep gradient from flooding rains in SENJ/DE to moderate rains a bit inland from the coast to just east of 95 to essentially nada along and NW of 95, which was not what was forecast. It happens. Models still all over the place for overnight through tomorrow early afternoon, but the NWS is sticking with likely heavy rains (1-2" with locally up to 5") for anyone near, along and SE of 95.
.NEAR TERM /THROUGH SATURDAY/...
As of 930 PM, starting to see some increase in shower activity
from the south and southwest. The water vapor imagery shows an
impulse moving up across the eastern Carolinas and eastern
Virginia, and this feature should result in additional
increases in showers especially overnight into early Saturday
morning. Thunder has been rather sparse so far as
shower/convection is more low-topped, however the greater
chance for some thunder appears to be late tonight when some
increased forcing for ascent arrives. Made some additional
adjustments to the PoPs given trends and continued with the idea
of a slower thunder mention northward.
Guidance continues to pinpoint the heaviest rainfall potential
from across portions of Delmarva and into the urban corridor
through early Saturday afternoon. An additional wave of
widespread heavy showers and some thunderstorms is expected to
impact this area beginning around daybreak Saturday through
around midday. Widespread rainfall amounts near 1-2" can be
expected, with locally higher amounts up to 5" possible.
While much of the area has been dry recently, the rainfall
rates may lead to some areas of flash flooding, especially in
urbanized areas. The Flood Watch remains in effect as previously
issued through 2 PM Saturday to highlight this threat.
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Good for you! But it still sucks trying to get your exercise in with this weather.
Thank you! I'm definitely happy to keep moving but if it wasn't job related there's no way I'm moving this much outside in this heat. I do make sure I walk the dog early though to give him some exercise.
Yup, when my dog was alive (God rest your soul Leo) I would always walk him very first thing in this weather then hang out in the yard later.
Our car thermometer, which is actually pretty damn accurate (I've checked it against our very accurate home thermometer), hit 100F today (in the shade, before I started the car) around 3 pm. Played a round of disc golf at 9 am to beat the heat and that didn't really work, lol - was drenched a few holes in and lost a few pounds despite drinking about 2 pounds (32 oz) of water.
