Saturday Evening Weather Report: Clouds Are Opening Up Their Bounty
- Thread starter RutgersRaRa
- Start date
Genuine Summer Nor' Easter down here in Sea Girt. Wind and torrential rain. Love it.
I love dramatic weather, and total props to you having a home in Sea Girt (I'll be visiting with a friend of mine this week who has a house there--Sea Girt is one of the nicest areas in NJ). Rain is steady up here now, no major winds.
kjb, you got slammed yesterday but it seems like the storm has diminished in volatility, though it is consistent and dropping quite a bit of rain. Hope your lawn survived--if it did, have fun mowing it Tuesday. :-)
I made a point to get ahead of it this Spring as we were pretty dry. We have a yard that has some areas that are very normal, some others that only need to be mowed every two times because of shade and dryness and a final portion that is heavily treed that often is a marsh and is very difficult to mow because of the moisture - last year I mowed it a total of four times. Anyhow, I have been diligent with the normal parts but the marsh has been really tough. Got it ironed out yesterday though and all is good now.
Sounds like you have some property and can let some things go once in a while if need be. Must be nice.
haha - my wife was at me a bit about the marsh portion and I told her I wasn't willing to ruin the grass to get it mowed. Also told her that we are the only people who can see it.
Minor point, but the storm is not a nor'easter - the low pressure system responsible for most of the precip went well to our west today into this evening vs. nor'easters that form off the Carolinas, typically, and head NE up the east coast.
Having said that, it's been quite a storm, especially near the coast, with 2-3" reported so far and a flash flood warning in place for Monmouth/Ocean (and parts of SE NJ) and other flood watches/warnings up in much of the rest of the area.
http://www.weather.gov/phi/
Numbers, I will bow to your superior understanding and knowledge of weather. :) BTW, always enjoy your threads.
To me, a weather techno-peasant, if I go down to the beach and it is raining hard, the surf is up and the wind is out of the northeast, then by god, we have a nor'easter. But I am simple that way.
Sure is raining down here.
On the oceanfront just above Lavallette here...heavy, wind-driven rain has finally subsided for the most part, but the wind has been whipping up something fierce.
Of all the days for this storm. 3.5 hours in a steady downpour this afternoon to watch my son's rec league championship baseball game. Thankfully they won or it really would have sucked. My wife had bought lawn seats for Train/The Fray at PNC through some Groupon months ago and there was no way after finally warming up I was going out for another 4 hours of cold wet mess. Don't even like those bands, although Train is ok.
Wow. Looks like South Jersey got bashed. All these powerful storms and wind we've been having this spring seems to have made my next door neighbor nervous. They took down a huge Maple tree this weekend. It was the oldest, tallest tree in our neighborhood.
I'm glad they took it down because in strong storms it moved all over the place and if it fell the wrong way, it would crush part of my house. With cathedral ceilings in my bedroom, which is the closest corner of the house to the tree, there would be no protection at all if it came down.
During Sandy and Irene, we slept downstairs out of nervousness about that tree.
I'm glad they took it down because in strong storms it moved all over the place and if it fell the wrong way, it would crush part of my house. With cathedral ceilings in my bedroom, which is the closest corner of the house to the tree, there would be no protection at all if it came down.
During Sandy and Irene, we slept downstairs out of nervousness about that tree.
